Hi Chas

couple of things, this is an excel newsgroup - you might be better off
posting in an access one
e.g.
microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted

but unfortunately basically something is deleted in Access then it is gone -
unless it was a whole table that you deleted and then BEFORE you close
Access have a read of
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;209874

it refers to mdbs created under access 2000 but it might be worth a try.

Regards
JulieD

"ChasD" wrote in message
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As a new user to Office XP Professional
I've just mistakenly deleted data from an Access database.
Unlike a 'Word" file, it's not in the recycle bin.. where is it?
Can I retrieve it?
Help?