Hello. First - I have benefited so much from Richard and you all. Can't thank you enough. Most all of my questions have been answered here in some manner.

The quick answer is: converting access 95/97 to Access 365 - use MDB Admin at sourceforge. problem solved.

The long answer, I had been dealing with a problem recovering data from an old Access 97 database. Microsoft website said convert it in Access 2007 - but you can't download 2007 from Microsoft and they don't support 2007 anymore.So I called tech support there - they said they'd get back to me. mmhmm.

I searched through 599cd.com again - perhaps I missed it here?

I also tried ODBC connections of all kinds. No luck. Just this message:

"cannot open a database created with a previous version of your application"

which I include here in case you are searching for this exact phrase.

So disappointed that Microsoft wouldn't develop a tool for this.

Anyhow - after looking through several programs that had promise - but where the quantity and style of ads on their pages made me very worried about downloading their potentially useful program, I came across this most excellent free program called MDB Admin at sourceforge.  After installing it, I could query all the old tables using SQL, export queries to excel and there's even have a tool for converting mdb -> accdb. I couldn't directly open the converted file, but I could connect to it with Access 365 and so, problem solved.

Hope this helps someone.

And if you have a better way of doing it (using VBA, say) please respond.

Thanks! (and particular thanks to Marciel Degasperi from Brazil (marcieldeg) for creating and distributing MDB Admin on sourceforge!)