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===Installing the Microsoft Access 2010 Driver===

===Installing the Microsoft Access 2010 Driver===

For reasons that are poorly understood, many SSI Altium users cannot use database libraries without first installing this [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255 Microsoft Office 2010 compatibility driver]. This solution took considerable experimentation to discover and is a good example of SSI [[Tribal Altium Knowledge]]. Installing this driver, though demonstrably not required for all users, will prevent hard-to-diagnose future headaches.

For reasons that are poorly understood, many SSI Altium users cannot use database libraries without first installing this [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255 Microsoft Office 2010 compatibility driver]. Make sure to get the 64-bit version if using Altium 18.0 or later. This solution took considerable experimentation to discover and is a good example of SSI [[Tribal Altium Knowledge]]. Installing this driver, though demonstrably not required for all users, will prevent hard-to-diagnose future headaches.

===Installing Passives Database Library===

===Installing Passives Database Library===