Upsize your Microsoft Access database

1. Open the Microsoft Access database you want to upsize.

   How?

   1. On the File menu, click Open .
   2. Click a shortcut in the left side of the Open dialog box, or in the Look in box, click the drive or folder that contains the Microsoft Access database that you want.
   3. In the folder list, double-click folders until you open the folder that contains the database.

      If you can't find the database that you want to open, click Tools on the toolbar in the Open dialog box, and then click Search . In the Search dialog box, enter additional search criteria. For Help on an option, click the question mark and then click the option.

   4. Do one of the following:
      • Double-click the database.
      • To open the database for shared access in a multiuser environment, so you and other users can read and write to the database, click Open.
      • To open the database for read-only access so that you can view it but cannot edit it, click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open Read-Only.
      • To open the database with exclusive access, click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open Exclusive.
      • To open the database for read-only access and also prevent other users from opening it, click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open Exclusive Read-Only.

   Note   You can directly open a data file in an external file format such as dBASE, Paradox, Microsoft Exchange, or Microsoft Excel. You can also directly open any ODBC data source, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft FoxPro. Access automatically creates a new Access database in the same folder as the data file and adds links to each table in the external database.

   Tips

   • To open one of the last several databases you had open, click the file name at the bottom of the File menu. Microsoft Access opens the database with the same option settings it had the last time you opened it. If the list of recently used files isn't displayed, click Options on the Tools menu, click the General tab, and then select the Recently used file list check box.

   • To view a list of shortcuts to databases that you have opened previously, click History on the left side of the Open dialog box.

   • To quickly locate a file or folder in the Favorites folder, click Favorites on the left side of the Open dialog box. To open a favorite file or folder, click the shortcut and then click Open.

    
2. On the Tools menu, point to Database Utilities, and then click Upsizing Wizard.
3. Follow the directions in the Upsizing Wizard pages and dialog boxes, and then click Finish when you are done.
4. If you need more information to decide what to do in each page of the wizard or dialog box, click Help.

The Upsizing Wizard will run to completion after you click Finish; there are no additional prompts. This is especially useful if you want to upsize a large database unattended. If you need to cancel the upsizing process, click Cancel on the status box that the Upsizing Wizard displays after you click Finish. Any error messages are written to the Upsizing Wizard report, created as a report snapshot with the same name as the Access database (for example, Northwind.snp), and stored it in the default database folder.