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Pond Lady - 21 Mar 2006 01:33 GMT

I just installed Office Professional 2003. When I go into Access and create
a table the words "Access 2000 Format" appears ontop. What is wrong?

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Brendan Reynolds - 21 Mar 2006 02:18 GMT

There's nothing wrong. Access 2002 and Access 2003 both use Access 2000
format by default, so that your databases will be compatible with other
users who are still using Access 2000. If that's not a concern for you, you
can change the default by selecting Options from the Tools menu, selecting
the Advanced tab, and selecting Access 2002-2003 from the Default File
Format drop-down list.

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>I just installed Office Professional 2003. When I go into Access and
>create
> a table the words "Access 2000 Format" appears ontop. What is wrong?

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John Vinson - 21 Mar 2006 02:40 GMT

>I just installed Office Professional 2003. When I go into Access and create
>a table the words "Access 2000 Format" appears ontop. What is wrong?

Nothing whatsoever.

Access 2002 and 2003 default to using the A2000 database format. There
are very few and minor differences between the 2000 and 2002/3 format;
using Tools... Options you can choose which format is the default, or
you can use Tools... Database Utilities... Convert to convert the
database to 2002/3 format (they're the same), if you really want to.
You won't notice any difference.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

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