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"The 'UserInfo' link is used by Microsoft Office Access to maintain your web application. It may not be deleted or renamed." error message when you try to delete a Web database table named Userinfo in Access 2010

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Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:
  • You create a Web database in Microsoft Access 2010.
  • You publish the Web database to a Microsoft SharePoint site.
  • You open the Web database in Access 2010 on a client computer.
  • You create a table. You name the table Userinfo.
  • You synchronize the Web database that is located on the client computer together with the published version of the Web database that is located on the SharePoint site.
  • On the client computer, you try to delete the table Userinfo in the client-side copy of the Web database.
In this scenario, you receive the following error message:

The 'UserInfo' link is used by Microsoft Office Access to maintain your web application. It may not be deleted or renamed.

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Cause

This issue occurs because the word "Userinfo" is a reserved word in Access 2010 for web databases that are published to the Access Services area of a SharePoint site. For more information about reserve words in Access, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

286335 List of reserved words in Access 2002 and in later versions of Access

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Workaround

To work around this issue, save the web database to a client computer as a local database, delete the table Userinfo from the database, and then republish the database to the SharePoint server.

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Article Info
Article ID : 983274
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 9/17/2011
Exists online : False
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