Rob,
I would expect that your "workaround" is in fact the way most people
would do it anyway. :-)
It sounds like you need to click the 'Show All Actions' button under
Macro Design Tools on the Ribbon.

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Steve Schapel, Microsoft Access MVP
> In the older verison, when writing a macro I used to have the option
> DeleteObject. Does anyone know what replaced it or where it is hiding?
> (I used DeleteObject to delete tables & then replace them - I have found a
> work around, write a delete query to delete the data & then an append query)