You might be surprised by this, but you can still back convert Access 2007 forms, reports and modules to Access 97! (Why is another matter, of course, but let’s presume that you need to…)

OK, first of all, you need to export them to text, which is explained here in far more detail than I care to explain it.

So now, when you fire up Access 97, and try and convert them by running this line:

Application.LoadFromText acForm, "YourFormName", 
 "C:TempForm_frmTest.txt"

It fails, right? Well, you can easily change that by editing the text file itself… Continue reading “Convert Access 2007 forms to 97” →