Peter,
are you ex****ting data from an access master database to other access
databases?
If the answer is yes, can you change the way you get the data out of the
master database?
If you get only the data for a particular client to send to that client -
it
wouldn't matter if they could see their own data - then you wouldn't need
to
worry about password protection.
You could automate this by using a query that picks out the data for the
client you specify from a combo or listbox.
Jeanette Cunningham MS Access MVP -- Melbourne Victoria Australia