[AccessD] Converting from Access 2007 to 2016

[Janet Erbach]

Doug - that's good to hear.  Did you happen to have any issues with Excel
vba code that had been written in 2007?  Or did that not apply to that
client site?

Janet

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com> wrote:

> This doesn't exactly answer your question, but when one of my clients
> upgraded from Office 2007 to Office 2013, we had no problems at all with
> Access.  In fact, there are still a couple of machines running 2007 and I
> haven't had to worry about making any special allowances for them.
>
> Doug
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Janet Erbach <jerbach.db at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all.  My company is still on Office 2007, but the mandate came down
> > last week that everyone will be upgraded to 2016.  The licenses have been
> > purchased and deployed, and we're supposed to upgrade everyone ASAP.
> >
> > I've had issues in the past with mis-matched references:  I upgraded to
> > Outlook 2010, for example, to try and cure some outlook woes I had.  But
> > when I made changes to one of my access apps, it 'broke' on the
> end-user's
> > computer:  the reference to the Microsoft Office Object Library 14.0
> > couldn't be found on the user's machine because they were still on the
> > version with Object Library 12.0
> >
> > Can you give me some guidelines for how we go about making this upgrade
> as
> > gracefully as possible?  It's going to take us a good week to update the
> > users/computers that need to be upgraded, and I KNOW we're going to have
> > instances with references mis-matches before everyone can be brought to
> the
> > same version of office.  And I suspect that we'll also have VBA code
> issues
> > with some of the Excel apps we have out there - antiquated code that uses
> > functions or references that won't work in 2016.
> >
> > Any suggestions for us?  Please????  Thanks.
> >
> > Janet Erbach
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