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I have been requested to convert a database that contains multiple document mail merge. The merge is performed by a select query. This query is generated partially from existing data in the application and partially from an input form. Multiple documents are merged and printed. We now need to...

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It sounds like you modified your system's .mdw file. You should have created a new .mdw file before creating the workgroups. That way the users would have had to attach to that .mdw file and the workgroup security would have been in force. Send me an email at comtaxdog@yahoo.com and Ill send...

How was the short cut set up. To use a short cut to the database, that short cut should have made a reference to the .mdw file with set your security. The default .mdw file is the systems.mdw located in the systems32 folder of the operating system folder you are using. The proper .mdw file...

You can also make a .mde file, which hides programming and takes away the opportunity for the user to modify the forms and reports. Make the modifications form the start from within the .mde file prior to deployment that eliminate the menus, database window, etc. and start the application from...

You may want read the MS white papers on workgroup security also. There are many concerns while running Access across servers and in multiple users situations. I'm doing it now with a split database, workgroup security, programming and static tables in file on several servers across the...

http://www.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0055.htm for 2000 access

Where can I get the viewer for Access 97