I do a fair bit of programming in Access 2007, after having started in Access 97 and moved on to 2000. The 2007 versions of Office programs had many significant changes, including the Ribbon, but one change that slipped under most people’s radar was the removal of user-level security. Access 2007 files no longer used the “users-and-groups-in-a-workgroup-MDW-file” method of providing security; in fact, it pretty much did away with security on a per-object basis altogether.

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