Removing duplicate rows from Access 2003 Table

There is no simple code to do this.
A common approach is to copy the table structure and in the new table  add a unique index to the field that identifies the duplicate. Then use an append query to add all current records to the new table.
Duplicates will be rejected and you will get an error message telling you this.

You can then either rename the tables or delete all records  from the original table, set up the index, and use another append query to send the valid records back.

Make sure you have a backup first.

Heres another way

SELECT First(Table1.ID) AS FirstOfID INTO Table2 FROM Table1 GROUP BY Table1.Test;

Table 1 has 2 columns, a primary key ID column  and a  column with some rows that are duplicates. The SQL extracts the first unique occurence of each row and puts the  results in a new table - i.e. a table that has only 1 occurence of each item

You then join the resulting table with the original and delete everything where the ID columns dont have a match OR just use the new table and delete the original

I should have mentioned my first primary key ID column is a unique Autonumber field which is always useful to have as the first field of a table

Thanks for the comments, Peter57r - your solution works fine, but the data is already in Access, I want to avoid importing and exporting the data bacause I need to query the data in access first. I can export data to excel, and import it back into an access table using the column with duplicates as a primary key, this will not import the duplicates. But I wanted a sql solution.
JeffvClayton - your solution partly works as the new table is created, but itis giving an incorrect number of non duplicate records. The non duplicate records I should have (tested and checked in excel) is 1613, your solution provides 1222 with the difference missing. Any ideas?
Thanks
Sam

Ahh.... yes Peter, after reading your solution again, it does seem  easier as all it needs is an append query into a new table with a unique primary key .... tried it and works well gtiving the correct number of records. Thanks