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MS Excell application for Client database working under Windows XP.
Hi all,
In my company we have a MS Excell application for Client database working under Windows XP.
For Windows 10 it wrks now under a virtual box.
I want it to work with Windows 11!
How is the best and efficient way to do that?
Hope someone can help me out.
Thanks for cooperating.
Eric
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To Understand the dependencies…
Excel version: Which Excel is it built for? Excel 2003/2007 macros? Or newer?
VBA/macros/ActiveX: Some ActiveX controls and VBA code written for XP-era Excel might break in modern Office.
External dependencies: Does it connect to Access, ODBC, old drivers, custom DLLs? These often block migration.
In some cases, you can adapt old VBA to work in modern Excel on Windows 10/11. However, there's no single "magic extra code" you add that will make everything just work—I recommend fixing by patching the few places where old code or objects no longer exist.
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