Robert, Sorry to hear of the turmoil. Hope everything and everyone turned out okay! The only part of your post which confuses me is that it carries the implication that this is a new behavior when Access is updated from version to version. Admittedly, this is the first time I've seen the reference to OS changes being behind the problem. However, it's become sort of a tradition that opening an Access 97 DB in, say, Access 2000 would irreversibly update the DB and sending it back to the original Access 97 machine would provide an unwelcome surprise. I'm not saying I like the fact that this happens with each new version of Access. I'm just not surprised by it. ;) Greg Robert Carneal wrote: >Linda- In hindsight you and the others are right. I could give two reasons, >but suffice it to say I had family in the hospital, and friends here were >trying to help me get the house ready for their return. Some of my email was >deleted in interest of keeping the email low, and some of my faxes were >discarded. (These people didn't realize I needed to see all of it.) Life >here was topsy-turvy with a lot of miscommunication going on for about five >weeks. > >One fax was from a former professor. She said: > >Robert: If you are still using Access, be careful. I received information >today explaining if you are using Access but upgrade to Microsoft's new >version of operating system, your FrontPage and Access will not work. I am >trying to confirm this, but that is the way my information is coming to me. >I can see the problem now, I make an assignment, a student starts on it at >home on Off2000, works on it some at school on Off 2003, and suddenly cannot >work on it at home because the operating systems are different. This is >going to be a mess if true. Thought you would want a heads up. > ><Name> > >I had several faxes like that. Hope this answers Steve's question. > >Robert > > > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************