If you've converted any 97 or earlier .mdb files to Access 2000, you may have noticed that your converted files are much larger than the original. That's because Access 2000 supports Unicode, which increases storage space by almost 100 percent. Why? Unicode uses two bytes per character.

What's Unicode? Unicode is an international standard that allows Office to read foreign data. As long as the foreign application supports Unicode, Office can read the data.

A quick and simple fix is to compact your converted database. Or you can download the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.1.2.4202.3 (GA) file from the following location:

http://www.microsoft.com/data/download_21242023.htm

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