ac97 ac2003 question

[DougGerlach]

can you install access 97 on a machine that already has office/access 2003 installed on it. are there any things that need to be done to install it safely?

thanks
doug

 

[AnnaFoot]

Hello Pat,

I was wondering what do you meant saying that AXP and A2003 can't coexist. I have them both on my machine (XP installed first) and haven't noticed a problem with either of them. I always open the version of access i want to use and then open the database, otherwise the database tries to open in the last version i had opened, not necessarily the right version for the database.

Is something happening that i'm not aware of?

Anna

 

[AnnaFoot]

Thanks Pat,

The linked table manager doesn't work on my access 2003, annoying, but i just remove and relink the tables each time. I'm not having any noticeable effects with outlook.

If i remove access xp, and only use 2003, are xp/2000 systems created and maintained on 2003 still fine on xp and 2000 versions?

I just assumed it would be like 97, and once you'd upgraded it you couldn't go back.

Anna

 

[ghudson]

The linked table manager doesn't work on my access 2003

I had a simular problem with Access 97 and Access 2003 installed on the same PC but the KB article 835519 did not work for me. I had to copy the Office 2003 accwiz.dll from the Office11 directory and replace it with the Access 2003 accwiz.dll file in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\ directory. Then I had to register it with this command...

regsvr32.exe "C:\WINDOWS\system32\accwiz.dll"

The location of the "accwiz.dll" file for Access 97 was C:\WINDOWS\system32\accwiz.dll
The location of the "accwiz.dll" file for Access 2003 was C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\accwiz.dll

I had installed Office 97 first then I installed Office 2003. Maybe this will benefit somebody else one day.