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title: "What format should my database be saved in to allow different versions of Access to open the database?"  
description: "What format should my database be saved in to allow different versions of Access to open the database?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-05-05  
updated: 2020-09-16  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/841/what-format-should-my-database-be-saved-in-to-allow-different-versions-of-access-to-open-the-database  
category: "ms access"  
tags: ["ms access"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What format should my database be saved in to allow different versions of Access to open the database?

MS Access is not backwards compatible. To share tables between different versions of MS Access, you can link the tables between two different databases. However, only the tables in the converted database would be available. \

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

MS Access is not backwards compatible. To share tables between different versions of MS Access, you can link the tables between two different databases. However, only the tables in the converted database would be available. \


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