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We have a CRM that is built on Access VBA. I upgraded it from a Access 2003 MDB file to a 2010 ACCDB.

We are on the cusp of upgrading to Office 365 and I would like to do some testing/research on the move from 2010 to 365's 2016 version of access.

It seems that the ACCDB file is stable between version of 2010 to the 365/2016 version. Is that true? I cannot find documentation.

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Support for accdb files is constant between Access 2007 to Access 2016. However, later updates of Access 365/2016 offer support for the BigInt data type, which is not backwards compatible with older versions of Office (even older versions of Office 2016).

As long as you don't use the BigInt data type, and you don't use import functions that create new tables on data sources that might be imported as BigInt, you should be able to open the same file in Access 2010 and Access 2016.

If you use an older version of Access 2016, without BigInt support, you should be able to use them without a real chance of breaking compatibility.