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How to remove VBA project password

Originally it was posted for  Excel VBA, but apparently works for Access.

• Make backup.
• Open the file with a hexadecimal editor, find the string "DPB" and change it to "DPx".
• Then you open the file in Excel, switch to the VBA project and change the password (don't remove it, just change it). Save the file, reopen it, go to VBA project (using the password you've just created) and remove the password.
  

How to link FoxPro tables

In Access 97 FoxPro ISAM was included in setup, and linking FoxPro table was as easy as Access or DBF table. It was even a nice fox icon to linked FoxPro table:

Then it was deprecated in Access 2002 (or 2000?), and now you can only connect using ODBC.

First you need to install Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver. Then try to create new DSN to some FoxPro table using ODBC Data Source Administrator. If it works – you can link FoxPro table to Access database.

Following code shows how to create linked table using VBA:

Set tdf = dbs.CreateTableDef(strTableName, 

   _ dbAttachExclusive, 

   _ strFileName, 

   _ "ODBC;DSN=Visual FoxPro Tables;SourceDB=" & strFolder & 

   _ ";SourceType=DBF;Exclusive=No;BackgroundFetch=Yes;" & 

   _ "Collate=Machine;Null=Yes;Deleted=Yes;" & 

   _ "TABLE=" & strFileName) 

dbs.TableDefs.Append tdf dbs.TableDefs.Refresh