How to prevent the reference to the library from becoming a reference to a more advanced version

Question

First of all I apologize for my English, I use google translate.

I have an ms access project that contains a reference to the PowerPoint 14.0 library, I develop it in Office 2010.

I recently had a case where one of the clients opened the file in Office 2013 or 2016 and then the reference was automatically changed to the PowerPoint 16.0 library, then he opened the file again in Office 2010 and got the "Missing reference" error, since Office 2010 does not have the Power Point 16.0 library.

The question is: Is there a way to prevent the reference from becoming a 16.0 library, and to make it always remain a reference to the 14.0 library, even if the office version is more advanced than 2010.

I know you can use late binding using the CreateObject method and avoid the references altogether, but I'd rather find a way to keep the reference because the project has a lot of constants from the PowerPoint library.