Question about doing application development against older versions of Access

I'll be working on a MS Access 2007 application written by someone else, whose no longer here. I've no experience writing MS Access applications, however I've used MS Access several times through the years as a desktop database. Therefore I know it's possible
to open an older Access database, say Access 2007, with a newer version of Access. You can bring up tables, query definitions, etc. and do normal database things in newer versions of Access against older .mdb's or .accdb's.
What I don't know is if it is possible to also do development against older versions of Access. Can I have MS Access 2013 on my development PC, but open a MS Access 2007 database with the Access application in it, and do development? Or will Access 2013
insist that I upgrade the older database file to Access 2013?
Rod

One can definitely open and use it with Access 2013 (note - we haven't gotten to 'develop' it yet.....)
Generally an app written with the 2007 edition is going to be a .accdb file - but it is possible it is the older .mdb file format.
In development is your issue; the latest edition has newer features that the older edition can't possibly know about. Nothing unique about Access on this point. It just is. So if you invoke any of those - then you'll lose your backward
ability as a 2007 user won't be able to open it.
I definitely have tried to open an app in 07 only to receive a 'not recognized' type error message - and moved that app over to my 13 machine where it opened fine....and was never able to find which feature unique to 13 was the culprit....
So if you tread cautiously you can be okay - and while I think I know the features that differentiate the products, I still prefer to play it safe and do all development in the edition that is used.

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