Document Object

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A Document object includes information about one instance of an object. The object can be a database, saved table, query, or relationship (Microsoft Jet databases only).

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Each Container object has a Documents collection containing Document objects that describe instances of built-in objects of the type specified by the Container. The following table lists the type of object each Document describes, the name of its Container object, and what type of information Document contains.

Note   Don't confuse the Container objects listed in the preceding table with the collections of the same name. The Databases Container object refers to all saved database objects, but the Databases collection refers only to database objects that are open in a particular workspace.

With a Document object, you can:

• Use the Name property to return the name that a user or the Microsoft Jet database engine gave to the object when it was created.
  
  
• Use the Container property to return the name of the Container object that contains the Document object.
  
  
• Use the Owner property to set or return the owner of the object. To set the Owner property, you must have write permission for the Document object, and you must set the property to the name of an existing User or Group object.
  
  
• Use the UserName or Permissions properties to set or return the access permissions of a user or group for the object. To set these properties, you must have write permission for the Document object, and you must set the UserName property to the name of an existing User or Group object.
  
  
• Use the DateCreated and LastUpdated properties to return the date and time when the Document object was created and last modified.

Because a Document object corresponds to an existing object, you can't create new Document objects or delete existing ones. To refer to a Document object in a collection by its ordinal number or by its Name property setting, use any of the following syntax forms:

Documents(0)

Documents("name")

Documents![name]