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[DennisD]

Dennis here from Colorado. Part time, occasional MS Access user. Still using 2000.

I'll post my real first question over in Queries.

Anyone have any strong preferences on upgrading to Access 2010 or 2013? Most of what I've read says there isn't a good reason to upgrade.

Thanks in advance!

Dennis

 

[cjrhoads]

This should, perhaps, be posted in one of the regular forums instead of the introduction area, but for my money, there is very little reason to upgrade and many reasons not to. I've been teaching database applications since the days of DBase II. I currently use and teach Access 2007 and Access 2010. I yearn for good ol' Access 2003 or earlier. While there are a few neat new things you can do, there are even more things that were lost that you can't do anymore. I keep finding myself downgrading my databases to .mdb in order to integrate with other programs, many of which integrate with .mdb but not accdb.
Just my 2 cents