I am a volunteer for our genealogy society and the society purchased 2007
Microsoft Access on their computer. I have 2003 Access and made a database
at home for them to search names and I simply copy the .mdb file each time I
update. Now, we would like to make cd's of this system so people can take it
home and use it on their own computers for research. Here are my 2
questions:
1) Will the run-time work if I save the .mdb as a 2007 Access file?
2) Do I need to worry about whether the application will run on older
computers? Is there somewhere I can find out what the minimum requirements
are for the people who want to load this on their computer?
Thanks! Sherry

"SherryScrapDog" <SherryScrapDog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am a volunteer for our genealogy society and the society purchased 2007
> Microsoft Access on their computer. I have 2003 Access and made a
> database
> at home for them to search names and I simply copy the .mdb file each time
> I
> update. Now, we would like to make cd's of this system so people can take
> it
> home and use it on their own computers for research. Here are my 2
> questions:
> 1) Will the run-time work if I save the .mdb as a 2007 Access file?
> 2) Do I need to worry about whether the application will run on older
> computers? Is there somewhere I can find out what the minimum
> requirements
> are for the people who want to load this on their computer?
> Thanks! Sherry


1) Probably, though there are a few potential issues. Allen Browne has a
list of stuff to look out for when converting to Access 2007 at the
following URL ...

http://www.allenbrowne.com/tips.html

2) Microsoft's official minimum requirements for Access 2007 are at the
following URL ...

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ac...651033.aspx#11

I think they're over-optimistic. I wouldn't like to have to use Access 2007
on a 500 MHz PC with 256 MB of RAM.

--
Brendan Reynolds

Hi Brendan,
Thanks so much for this info! I am a little confused on the requirements
though; it looks to me like you need to have at least Windows XP to be able
to run Access 2007 and I assume this would be true for the run-time version?
Do you know if there is any way to make one for Windows 95, 98, or know of
any other references? I am gathering as much info as I can before I even try
this.
Thanks, Sherry

"Brendan Reynolds" wrote:

> "SherryScrapDog" <SherryScrapDog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:28410642-5A15-4289-8620-4D7D1FF28C64@microsoft.com...
> >I am a volunteer for our genealogy society and the society purchased 2007
> > Microsoft Access on their computer. I have 2003 Access and made a
> > database
> > at home for them to search names and I simply copy the .mdb file each time
> > I
> > update. Now, we would like to make cd's of this system so people can take
> > it
> > home and use it on their own computers for research. Here are my 2
> > questions:
> > 1) Will the run-time work if I save the .mdb as a 2007 Access file?
> > 2) Do I need to worry about whether the application will run on older
> > computers? Is there somewhere I can find out what the minimum
> > requirements
> > are for the people who want to load this on their computer?
> > Thanks! Sherry
>
>
> 1) Probably, though there are a few potential issues. Allen Browne has a
> list of stuff to look out for when converting to Access 2007 at the
> following URL ...
>
> http://www.allenbrowne.com/tips.html
>
> 2) Microsoft's official minimum requirements for Access 2007 are at the
> following URL ...
>
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ac...651033.aspx#11
>
> I think they're over-optimistic. I wouldn't like to have to use Access 2007
> on a 500 MHz PC with 256 MB of RAM.
>
> --
> Brendan Reynolds
>
>

"SherryScrapDog" <SherryScrapDog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AFD3A6CC-A597-4DDC-85D0-6224AE862F07@microsoft.com...
> Hi Brendan,
> Thanks so much for this info! I am a little confused on the requirements
> though; it looks to me like you need to have at least Windows XP to be
> able
> to run Access 2007 and I assume this would be true for the run-time
> version?
> Do you know if there is any way to make one for Windows 95, 98, or know of
> any other references? I am gathering as much info as I can before I even
> try
> this.


The requirements for the run-time are the same as for retail Access, yes.
Access 2007, run-time or retail, will not run on earlier versions of
Windows, no. You would have to use an earlier version of Access for that.

--
Brendan Reynolds

Thanks very much! Now I know better what I'm dealing with. Sherry

"Brendan Reynolds" wrote:

> The requirements for the run-time are the same as for retail Access, yes.
> Access 2007, run-time or retail, will not run on earlier versions of
> Windows, no. You would have to use an earlier version of Access for that.
>
> --
> Brendan Reynolds
>
>