Access Versions

The book covers Access versions from Office 2000 to Office 2003, and most of the book’s material applies to all of these versions. Where a specific element (such as PivotCharts, introduced in Access 2002) requires a higher version of Access, this will be noted in the text.

With the exception of the ActiveX controls discussed in Chapter 3 (Selecting the Right Controls for Forms), all you need to work through the examples in this book is Access 2000 or higher; if you want to use the ActiveX controls, however, you need the Developer edition of Access (which includes these controls) or another program that includes them, such as Visual Basic.