Running Access 2000 in Windows XP professional

I have Windows XP, and MS Office XP professional installed
on my laptop. I need to run, and edit a MS Access 2000
database. Can I do this, and how?

Any advice welcomed,
Charles Delap

Office XP contains Access 2002.
Access 2002 can edit an A2000 database.
It should work easily.

If you plan to switch the database back for use under A2000, consider
decompiling and then compacting it. You decompile a copy of the database by
entering something like this at the command prompt while Access is not
running. It is all one line, and include the quotes:
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft office\office\msaccess.exe" /decompile
"c:\MyPath\MyDatabase.mdb"

Then compile under A2000. (That's because the binaries are different between
the 2 versions.)

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"Charles Delap" wrote in message
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I have Windows XP, and MS Office XP professional installed
on my laptop. I need to run, and edit a MS Access 2000
database. Can I do this, and how?

Any advice welcomed,
Charles Delap

Thanks Allen for that advice. I'll try it out.

Charles Delap
-----Original Message-----
Office XP contains Access 2002.
Access 2002 can edit an A2000 database.
It should work easily.

If you plan to switch the database back for use under
A2000, consider
decompiling and then compacting it. You decompile a copy
of the database by
entering something like this at the command prompt while
Access is not
running. It is all one line, and include the quotes:
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft
office\office\msaccess.exe" /decompile
"c:\MyPath\MyDatabase.mdb"

Then compile under A2000. (That's because the binaries
are different between
the 2 versions.)

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"Charles Delap" wrote in
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I have Windows XP, and MS Office XP professional
installed
on my laptop. I need to run, and edit a MS Access 2000
database. Can I do this, and how?

Any advice welcomed,
Charles Delap


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