I have a friend who has a program that uses Access 97. He was told by the person who administrates this program that it must use Access 97, not a different version. He wants to upgrade to Office 2003 for various reasons. I don't have much experience with MS Office, especially the Access program, so I cannot help him, but perhaps one of you can. The question is can Access 97 and 2003 coexist on the same machine? Can he simply reload Access 97 on the same machine with Office 2003 and continue to use it for his one program that requires it? His OS is Win2K Pro. Thanks.
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I do not know about ACCESS 97 and ACCESS 2003 residing on the same computer, but MicroSoft has instructions for having ACCESS 97 and ACCESS 2000 installed on the same computer. I have used them and it works. One will be associated with all mdb files. So opening the ACCESS application you want and then opening the files is the best way to open your applications after installing both. See and search for Q241141. The title of this article is "ACC200: How to Install Access 97 and Access 2000 on the Same Computer. I searched briefly and did not find one for 97 and 2003, but it may be there. You may be able to use these instructions as a basis for trying to install 97 and 2003. Not sure it can be done. But you now have the information for what it is worth.
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