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Eddie Mason

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• May 10, 2018

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I'm having to purchase a new computer and I would like to know if I will have any issues running my legacy Access 2002 32 bit programmes on Access 2016 64 bit software.

kind regards,

Eddie

 

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• May 10, 2018

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Yes you will have one big issue.
A2016 cannot run A2002 files. You will need to use an intermediary version of Access such as 2010 to open and I suggest convert to ACCDB

After that it depends on what your databases contain.
If you use API declarations, these will need to be converted to work in 64bit Access.
Certain ActiveX controls don't work in 64 bit

Some features have been deprecated whilst other features have been added.

Good luck

 

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• May 11, 2018

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try it first.
.accdb will work without API.
.accde will not.

 

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I would like to thank you for the help given with this problem it is very much appreciated.

Kind regards

Eddie

 

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• May 12, 2018

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Your OS will be 64-bit because the hardware requires it but why are you installing the 64-bit version of Office? And what version are you installing?

If you simply install your 2002 version of Access, It will work as long as Win 10 will still run it. I don't know that. If Win 10 will not run A2002, you need a new version but unless you have a specific need for 64-bit Excel, you probably just want to install the 32-bit version - which is what MS actually recommends.