Microsoft KB Archive/209187

= List of reserved words in Access 2000 =

Article ID: 209187

Article Last Modified on 10/19/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q209187



Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.

This article applies to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb) and to a Microsoft Access project (.adp).



For a Microsoft Access 2002 and Access 2003 version of this article, see 286335.



SUMMARY
This article lists words and symbols that you should not use in field, object, and variable names because they are "reserved words." Reserved words have a specific meaning to Microsoft Access or to the Microsoft Jet database engine. If you use a reserved word or symbol, you may receive an error such as the following:

The wizard was unable to preview your report, possibly because a table needed by your report is exclusively locked.

For existing objects with names that contain reserved words, you can avoid errors by surrounding the object name with brackets ([ ]).



MORE INFORMATION
Because it is not practical to provide a list of all reserved words, such as built-in function names or Microsoft Access user-defined names, please check your product documentation for additional reserved words. Note that if you set a reference to a type library, an object library, or an ActiveX control, that library's reserved words are also reserved words in your database. For example, if you add an ActiveX control to a form, a reference is set, and the names of the objects, methods, and properties of that control become reserved words in your database.

-A ADD ALL Alphanumeric ALTER AND ANY Application AS   ASC Assistant AUTOINCREMENT Avg -B BETWEEN BINARY BIT BOOLEAN BY   BYTE -C CHAR, CHARACTER COLUMN CompactDatabase CONSTRAINT Container Count COUNTER CREATE CreateDatabase CreateField CreateGroup CreateIndex CreateObject CreateProperty CreateRelation CreateTableDef CreateUser CreateWorkspace CURRENCY CurrentUser -D DATABASE DATE DATETIME DELETE DESC Description DISALLOW DISTINCT DISTINCTROW Document DOUBLE DROP -E Echo Else End Eqv Error EXISTS Exit -F FALSE Field, Fields FillCache FLOAT, FLOAT4, FLOAT8 FOREIGN Form, Forms FROM Full FUNCTION -G GENERAL GetObject GetOption GotoPage GROUP GROUP BY   GUID -H HAVING -I Idle IEEEDOUBLE, IEEESINGLE If   IGNORE Imp IN   INDEX Index, Indexes INNER INSERT InsertText INT, INTEGER, INTEGER1, INTEGER2, INTEGER4 INTO IS -J JOIN -K KEY -L LastModified LEFT Level Like LOGICAL, LOGICAL1 LONG, LONGBINARY, LONGTEXT -M Macro Match Max, Min, Mod MEMO Module MONEY Move -N NAME NewPassword NO   Not NULL NUMBER, NUMERIC -O Object OLEOBJECT OFF ON   OpenRecordset OPTION OR   ORDER Orientation Outer OWNERACCESS

-P Parameter PARAMETERS Partial PERCENT PIVOT PRIMARY PROCEDURE Property -Q Queries Query Quit -R REAL Recalc Recordset REFERENCES Refresh RefreshLink RegisterDatabase Relation Repaint RepairDatabase Report Reports Requery RIGHT -S SCREEN SECTION SELECT)   SET    SetFocus    SetOption    SHORT    SINGLE    SMALLINT    SOME    SQL    StDev, StDevP    STRING    Sum -T    TABLE    TableDef, TableDefs    TableID    TEXT    TIME, TIMESTAMP    TOP    TRANSFORM    TRUE    Type -U    UNION    UNIQUE    UPDATE    User -V    VALUE    VALUES    Var, VarP    VARBINARY, VARCHAR -W    WHERE    WITH    Workspace -X    Xor -Y    Year    YES    YESNO

The following symbols must not be used as part of a field name or as part of an object name: . /   *   :   !   #   &   -   ?   ;    "    '    $

