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Oh, and by the way, click the &quot;Apply&quot; button at the bottom of the form before exiting!<br />

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Oh, and by the way, click the "Apply" button at the bottom of the form before exiting!


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That was it - but what are those darn things for??<br />

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That was it - but what are those darn things for??


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These are the tables where Access keeps track of your table structures, queries, preferences, etc. &nbsp;All the internal information that gets displayed for you when you look at the objects you have created.<br />
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It's all saved within your own database so it can't get separated like it does in the earlier X-base type databases.<br />

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These are the tables where Access keeps track of your table structures, queries, preferences, etc.  All the internal information that gets displayed for you when you look at the objects you have created.

It's all saved within your own database so it can't get separated like it does in the earlier X-base type databases.


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I was opening a brand new mdb, and it comes up with existing tables that I didn't put in because its new. I try to delete them but it won't let me, &nbsp;the tables are dimmed out and the owner is down as being the Engine in the tables' properties.
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I was opening a brand new mdb, and it comes up with existing tables that I didn't put in because its new. I try to delete them but it won't let me,  the tables are dimmed out and the owner is down as being the Engine in the tables' properties.

Table owner: Engine

Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.