my program mdb shrinked from 18Mb to 4MB after conversion, and it seems
faster.

I did not convert my data mdb as I am only running 2000 on my notebook and
still cautiously keeping my production PC's running office 97

rgds

Hiya,
You'd Probably get a similar reduction by running /DeCompile & Compact
on your '97 version
(which BTW is something I do *all* the time)

Just beeing a SpoilSport ;-)
Pieter

http://www.thuleeng.com

Tough guys don't take backup - tough guys cry a lot..

Good site to look for Access answers is:
http://home.att.net/~dashish

But I do recompile and compress my db's every time I am adding code to them
, I am sure that's not the point BTW the mde files shrink in the same
proportion
do you also recompile your mde files *all* the time :-)

Anyhow not worth to quarrel for that, i found it just worht mentioning.
rgds
Andre

If you've never run it before it could save you 50% or more on a front
end MDB.

Tony
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