[AccessD] Re-linking Issue

First of all, I'll address this question...it states that it is in "97 Format" but it HAS been updated on a 2003 machine (IIRC) in the past. I think I wrote this program back around 2000-2001...maybe even earlier, but I think this is about right. Since this time, so much has changed here at work. For one thing, I don't program too much these days...I'm working w/other projects such as IP Telephony. And, this was for our Social Services Fraud Unit, and they've since hired their own techs...although we do their work for them so much, I don't know why they bothered. 
 
BUT...
 
As I'm sure y'all noticed, I've not been on this every day...and there are good reasons for that. First, I almost always have a good half-dozen projects going on, and they don't always involve programming...right now it is an Intranet Proj, I AM pumping out a little Access program, Our whole dept is migrating all of our campuses to a new network...Novel to Win AD...and there are at least 3-4 other little things that will surely cross my desk today...fires that need to be put out. 
 
Add to that, I came down w/the flu last week, and I'm still not right...this knocked the hell out of me. So, sometimes I'm working on a "hot" project...it ends up be relegated to the back-burner, while another "emergency" gets pushed to the forefront. 
 
I just felt I had to explain why sometimes I ask a question, and then it seems like I fall off the face of the Earth, only to bring it up again days, or even a week or so later. I AM very appreciate of the help given to me here, by y'all. I do read each and every reply that I get...filing many of them away, because even if they don't help w/the immediate issue at hand, I often draw on this knowledge down the road. I try to get back to y'all and say thanks, but I know I've failed at that at least a couple of times.
 
So, let me officially say, Thank You once more. 
 
John W Clark
 
PS...each time I come out here, I end up spending so much time reading the other posts. Just today I find the post about Bound Forms & how the data is brought over. This is something I've always questioned, and as long as I've worked w/Access, you'd think I'd have figured it out by now. But, there seems to be conflicting "answers" out there, and each time I think I have it, what I THINK I know is brought into question. So, I've gotta go finish that. It is from over a week ago, so I hope the answers are there! ;o)

>>> "Jim Dettman" <jimdettman at verizon.net> 2/22/2013 1:28 PM >>>

  Wait...you said Access 97 didn't you?  The DB needs to be in JET 4.0
format at least (A2000 and up).

Jim. 

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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Re-linking Issue

Well...what I have now done, is to allow the DB to update itself to 2010,
and after doing this, link manager was enabled. It let me go in and alter
the link, and I am not in and using the program. I think I just learned
something, because I never knew this to be the case. 

This won't fix me for good though, because I don't think that department is
all up to date and on 2010. So, I've got to find out what version they do
have and go from there. 

>>> "Jim Dettman" <jimdettman at verizon.net> 2/22/2013 12:12 PM >>>
<<But, my immediate question...my request fro y'all...is how to open link
manager? It is grayed out, and I'm thinking the reason is that I am now
using MS Access 2010, and these programs report as being "Access 97 file
format." Is this the case...that since they are in a different format, link
manager won't run? And, if so, how can I get around this?>>

Still should work.  What's most likely is that it was not installed.  The
other issue is if it is a runtime version. Wizards are not available under
the runtime.

  You can double check quick by creating a blank DB in 2010, link to a
external table, then see if the linked table manager is still grayed out.

Jim.

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