The Office Suite has (allegedly) progressed from: Office 97 ... to ... Office 2000 ... to Office XP ... and now to Office 2003. Not sure what the next one will be dubbed. This is the upgrade path as far as I know it. For what most people do, any of these will work fine.
I have had a different version of Access loaded ... as you describe ... with no real problems. You will not get as good integration between the programs if they are not at the same version level -- but, my guess is that everything you want to do with it will be fine. Since upgrading to my new computer in December, I've been trying to hold off of the Office suite -- and am using the OpenOffice.org product, a free productivity suite available at (you guessed it) www.openoffice.org It has been really good for all I've wanted thus far ... no Access equivalent though. Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Since Macs are being discussed can I ask the M/S techies a question? I > had > M/S Office XP installed on my puter. I bought 2003 Student and Teacher > version and installed it for the PPT. It erased my Off XP and replaced it > with 2003. I did the same on the Laptop. Now I have OFF 2000 for the > Access program and have installed only the Access program. > > Question, are all three versions compatible with the Win 2KPro on my PC > and > the WIN XP on my laptop? They appear to be. Can I mix the programs, > Eg. OFFice 2003 and Access 2000? Are they stand alone programs that > work on all Windows platforms? Is one version of Office an upgrade from > another or is one a newer better version than the next? > > I swore I would give up anything techy after they came out with Windows > and > I was too lazy to learn that environment, but alas, I still ask > questions. TIA. > > Al > > >
