What is the purpose of this? From what I understand, if you password protect the back end of the database, the front end is linked to the back end tables. So you can still open up the linked tables in the front end and go crazy deleting pretty much everything in it. I know you can hide the tables along with the navigation pane but whats the point if the user can just unhide it and get access to it anyway? It would be nice to just lock the table and make a form that has the data entry property set to yes so the form only shows a blank new record for the user to fill in. Once they close this form, the record will be saved and the user will no longer be able to see that record because its in a password locked table. If the user opens the form again it will be blank and ready to enter another NEW record. Why can't this be done? Why did Microsoft not include options like this for a database. I would like to have only one person be able to access the table with a password to see everything and all the many users will just be able to add new records and not change or delete old ones. That's it.