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1. Close the Microsoft Access file (Microsoft Access file: An Access database or Access project file. An Access database stores database objects and data in an .mdb file. A project file doesn't contain data and is used to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database.). If you are using an Access database (Microsoft Access database: A collection of data and objects (such as tables, queries, or forms) that is related to a particular topic or purpose. The Microsoft Jet database engine manages the data.) in a multiuser (multiuser (shared) database: A database that permits more than one user to access and modify the same set of data at the same time.) environment, confirm that all users have closed the file.
2. Click Open on the toolbar.
3. In the Open dialog box, locate the Access file you want to delete, and then right-click the file.
4. On the shortcut menu (shortcut menu: A menu that shows a list of commands relevant to a particular item. To display a shortcut menu, right-click an item or press SHIFT+F10.), click Delete.

Notes

• If you want to restore your file, look in the Recycle Bin. Your deleted file will remain in the Recycle Bin until you empty it.
• When you delete an Access file that contains data access pages (data access page: A Web page, published from Access, that has a connection to a database. In a data access page, you can view, add to, edit, and manipulate the data stored in the database. A page can also include data from other sources, such as Excel.), you are not deleting the page HTML (.htm) files.
• When you delete an Access project, you are not deleting the Microsoft SQL Server database (Microsoft SQL Server database: A database in Microsoft SQL Server, it consists of tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, functions, and triggers.) to which the Access project is connected.
• If you delete an Access database, and another database includes links to objects in that database, use the Linked Table Manager in the other database to update the link information. Otherwise, Access will produce an error when you try to use those linked objects in the other database.

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