Category: Access

“Cannot Open a Database Created With a Previous Version of Your Application” error in Access 2013

Aug 8, 2015

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in Access, Office, Windows

This issue occurs when you try to use Microsoft Access 2013 to open an Access 97 database. To work around this issue, use a pre-Access 2013 version of Access to save the Access 97 database as an .accdb file: Open the Access 97 database in Access 2003. On the Tools menu, click Database Utilities, click…