From the course: Access 2021: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
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Hide tables and other objects
From the course: Access 2021: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Hide tables and other objects
- [Instructor] We've cleaned up the navigation pane a little bit by embedding some of the queries into the reports that they feed data into, where possible. That might still leave a few objects that are necessary to the functionality of the database, but that we don't want our end users getting easy access into. For instance, it's often advisable to keep people out of the underlying data tables in your database, and only allow them to view the information through a custom form or report that controls what they can do with those records. We can get some degree of protection by hiding the objects that you don't want people to have easy access to be able to dive into. Now there's two ways to hide objects in this navigation pane, and they have slightly different results. First, let's right-click on the Customers table. And you'll see that we have an option called Hide in this Group. When I choose that, you'll see that the…
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