Importing Objects into MS Access

This article was previously published under Q298174

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

This article applies only to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb).

NOTE: The sample code in this article uses Microsoft Data Access Objects. For this code to run properly, you must reference the Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library. To do so, click References on the Tools menu in the Visual Basic Editor, and make sure that the Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library check box is selected.

SUMMARY

This article describes how you can use Data Access Objects (DAO) to import all objects from one Microsoft Access database into the current Access database. In some situations, this code can be used to recover database objects from a corrupted or damaged database that can be opened but cannot be compacted successfully. This code does not import the following elements:

•	References
•	Import/Export specifications
•	Security information (user and group permissions)

The current user (typically the administrator) becomes the owner of all imported objects.

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