Microsoft Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 365 have more frequent upgrade cycles and different delivery channels for operating system and application upgrades. Windows 10 and Office 365 Special Considerations

You might not be able to convert from 32-bit Office to 64-bit Office if an Access application and any libraries it references are also 64-bit compatible.

Don’t use different Access versions with shared applications and concurrent users.

Make full backups of Access application files before the upgrade.If possible, pilot the upgrade on a single PC and test all functions.Applications written for 32-bit Access may need to be partially rewritten for use with 64-bit Access.Īt minimum, any time an Office upgrade takes place, we strongly recommend the following:.Dropped support for some external data sources.Database replication options don’t convert.Undetected corruption in older MDB database formats.Unable to convert directly from Access 97 format to newer ACCDB format.Dropped support for ADP (Access data project) format.On the other hand, remediating certain conversion issues may involve significant code rewriting and testing. Older print-to-PDF libraries (Lebans) no longer work or produce unexpected output.Conversion from legacy menus to Ribbon Bar menus.Replacing missing fonts (such as older system fonts from Access 97).Some of the most common Access conversion issues we’ve seen involve coding work that’s straightforward for an experienced Access developer but just not very obvious. We’ve converted over 100 Access applications between Office versions, including moving from Access 97 to Access 2019 and just about every combination in-between, with complete success.

Most times, those upgrades don’t affect Access application operation no fixes are needed. Many of our clients have used their Microsoft Access applications for a long time and depend on those applications continuing to work when updating from one version of Access and Office to another.

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