Protect Your Database with a Password

If your inventory database contains confidential information, create a password to prevent unauthorized users from opening it.

To create a password, you must open the database for exclusive access. To do so, close the database, click Open Database (File menu), and select your database. Click Exclusive, and then click Open. After you open the database for exclusive access, click Security, click Set Database Password (Tools menu), and then type the password.

For added security, change the password occasionally   Click Security (Tools menu), click Unset Database Password, and then type a new password. Need more sophisticated security?   You can give each user in your workgroup permission to view or change a different set of objects and data. To set up workgroup permissions, click Security and then click User and Group Permissions (Tools menu).

Next Steps

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See examples of Startup and Main Switchboard forms	Startup and Main Switchboard forms in the Northwind sample database
Create a simple database application by using the Database Wizard	Track Orders in a Shared Database
Learn about Visual Basic programming and read more about creating your own database applications using Microsoft Access	Building Applications with Microsoft Access 97, available directly from Microsoft with the order form provided in your Microsoft Office package