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Hi all, I think I've cracked it, so thank you to Uncle Gizmo and especially FrothingSlosh, that simple 'Save as' suggestion was the starting point to a solution. It's a bit of a hack, but I had scoured the web and couldn't find anything in either the forums or the MS Support sites that...

Rats, busted! That figure gets me major eyebrow elevation at work, I can see I'm going to have to work a bit harder around here! The 350 DBs 'on the list' are proper DBs, and about 50 of those are sophisticated, but I regularly get calls about DBs which missed the list but are used to manage...

Thanks for the welcome folks :-)

Thanks for looking at this folks; FrothingSlosh is correct, I would prefer to continue with .mdb files and carry on using .mdw files. What is stopping me from doing this is that the .mdw files are showing as being Access 95, despite the frontend and backend files being Access 2000/2003 :(. I...

Hi all! I am struggling with .mdw files which are still in Access 95 and 97 format. I can open the .mdw files in Access 2007, but when I try and convert them to 2003 format, it is not possible because the files are encoded. The 'Decode' option under database tools is greyed-out. :banghead: The...

Thanks Minty, thankfully I only get calls about a percentage of them, there are really only 350 on the 'fully supported' list, I was just looking for attention :o

Hi nschroeder, I was wondering if you found a way around your issue? It was your mention of 'encoding' which brought me here, I am struggling with .mdw files which are still in Access 95 and 97 format. I can open the .mdw files in Access 2007, but when I try and convert them to 2003 format, it...

... and I promise to reciprocate if I can :) Kevin here, I've been working in IT for x years +1, studied microelectronics and right now one of my responsibilities includes supporting 26,000 MS Access DBs for a North London Local Authority. If you're reading this because I've upset you, I can...