WORKING WITH OLDER DATABASE FORMATS

Support for backward compatibility continues with Access 2010, allowing you to easily open and edit older Access databases in the legacy MDB file format (i.e., Access versions 2000–2003). Access 2007 and 2010 use the new 2010 ACCDB database file format so there is no need to convert an Access 2007 database to Access 2010.

You can convert legacy Access databases in the MDB format to Access 2010 using the Save & Publish feature from the File menu. Note—you are not required to convert legacy MDB databases to edit and save them, but you will not be able to utilize Access 2010’s new features such as multivalued fields and data macros until you have converted to the ACCDB file format, which has been customized to implement these and many more new features.