[AccessD] Syntax for loading a specific version of Access

Here is how to setup the Open With.

1. Start Windows Explorer,
2. Select Tools and then Folder Options...
3. Click on the File Types Tab
4. Find the MDB file type
5. Click Advanced
6. Chances are there are 2 options.  Open in bold font (denoting default)
   and New.  You can pretty much add what you want here.  For decompile,
7. Click New
8. Under action type Decompile
9. Under Application used to perform action type the equivalent for your
   install:
  "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE" /decompile "%1"
10 Click OK and exit out

And wallah!  You now right click an mdb and have the context option of
decompiling it.

But it doesn't stop there.  For those of us juggling multiple versions of
Access you can setup a right click option to open in each.
Eg
Open in 97
Open in 2000
Open in XP

And make sure the path points to the correct version of access.
Look up the paths first and store in notepad you are going to cut and 
paste them
in the New edit
Also I hope they have changed the Access 2007 icon otherwise
 it may look like the Access 2003 icon.


Arthur Fuller wrote:

>That might do, Charlotte. Tell me how to do that and I'll try it out.
>
>A.
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>On 7/9/07, Charlotte Foust <cfoust at infostatsystems.com> wrote:
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>>Then I haven't a clue.  I use the Send To shortcuts on my machines, so I
>>can specify the precise version of Access to use.
>>
>>Charlotte Foust
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada