First up I have both with the 2016 on Office 356. As an aside it went from 2013 to 2016 and no extra charge. Only $13Aus a month.
I only use 2016 for other people and I won't do anything unless they get Office 365.
However, I make a lot of the stuff on 2003 because I prefer it and references automatically go up to 2016.
But I am interested to know what 2016 can do that can't be done in 2003. Conditional formatting was the biggest gain for me of 2003 over earlier versions. My main issue with Access is making labels where I might want one word in bold green and one in bold red. Means making and lining a up a few labels.
I suppose the basis of most things I make will be Access opening Word and inserting data into Bookmarks and also into Excel cells. Also the other way around. The Word docs created are stored in a folder and also in the data base as OLE embedded. The Word docs are also copied and pasted by Access into a memo field. Basically, all their correspondence is stored within Access so if that is all the back up then they are in business.
Lots of text manipulation with Left, Mid and so on.
So what does 2016 do that is missing with 2003.
As a side note I have had no issues with 2003 and 2016 on the one computer. I used to keep them separate but now on one computer I have both.
I only use 2016 for other people and I won't do anything unless they get Office 365.
However, I make a lot of the stuff on 2003 because I prefer it and references automatically go up to 2016.
But I am interested to know what 2016 can do that can't be done in 2003. Conditional formatting was the biggest gain for me of 2003 over earlier versions. My main issue with Access is making labels where I might want one word in bold green and one in bold red. Means making and lining a up a few labels.
I suppose the basis of most things I make will be Access opening Word and inserting data into Bookmarks and also into Excel cells. Also the other way around. The Word docs created are stored in a folder and also in the data base as OLE embedded. The Word docs are also copied and pasted by Access into a memo field. Basically, all their correspondence is stored within Access so if that is all the back up then they are in business.
Lots of text manipulation with Left, Mid and so on.
So what does 2016 do that is missing with 2003.
As a side note I have had no issues with 2003 and 2016 on the one computer. I used to keep them separate but now on one computer I have both.