Reindexing database

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Sonny - 30 Jan 2004 19:18 GMT

One of my co-workers was manually editing a database.
Now when she opens the DB, it shows as read-only.
Someone told me to reindex the database. How do you do
this? TIA.

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Allen Browne - 31 Jan 2004 03:22 GMT

Compact and Repair (Tools menu, under Database Utilities) repairs the
indexes in Access.

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> One of my co-workers was manually editing a database.
> Now when she opens the DB, it shows as read-only.
> Someone told me to reindex the database. How do you do
> this? TIA.

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