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Microsoft Access has a new Web-related object called a data access page. Data access pages are HTML documents that use the features of DHTML and provide a new way for users to interact with data on the Web. You create data access pages by using Access and display them either in Access or in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Data access pages allow users to use a Web browser to work with data in an interactive manner and in a way that has never been possible before. You can use them to view, edit, or delete records, and you can use them to sort and filter records as well as group records according to criteria you specify. In addition, while a page is displayed, the user can manipulate what records are displayed and how they are displayed. Although you design these pages in Access, you save them to disk as separate .htm files. The pages can contain data from an Access database (.mdb file) or Access project (.adp file). For more information about working with data access pages, see Chapter 5, "Working with Office Applications."