Types of permissions

The following table summarizes the permissions that you can assign.

Permission	Permits a user to	Applies to
Open/Run	Open a database, form, or report, or run a macro.	Databases, forms, reports, and macros
Open Exclusive	Open a database with exclusive access.	Databases
Read Design	View objects in Design view	Tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros
Modify Design	View and change the design of objects, or delete them.	Tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros
Administer	For databases, set database password, replicate a database, and change startup properties. For tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros, have full access to these objects and data, including ability to assign permissions.	Databases, tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros
Read Data	View data.	Tables and queries
Update Data	View and modify but not insert or delete data.	Tables and queries
Insert Data	View and insert but not modify or delete data.	Tables and queries
Delete Data	View and delete but not modify or insert data.	Tables and queries

Note

Some permissions automatically imply the selection of others. For example, the Update Data permission for a table automatically implies the Read Data and Read Design permissions because you need these to modify the data in a table. Modify Design and Read Data imply Read Design. For macros, Read Design implies Open/Run.
To design forms, reports, macros, modules in a multiuser environment, you must open a Microsoft Access database exclusively, which means you must have Open Exclusive permission on the Access database. Learn about saving design changes to a shared Access database.
In general, for users to access a linked table, grant Read Data and Read Design permissions on the table in the back-end database, and Modify Design permission on the table link defined in the front-end database so that users can conveniently re-link the table. If you want to restrict all access to the back-end table but still allow users to view the data and re-link the tables, remove all permissions on the back-end table and use queries in the front-end database with their RunPermissions property set to Owner's.