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Default Excel VBA to delete records in Access table and reset the Autonumber

Laurence,

This macro should work. It uses the "TransferDatabase" function to copy just the table structure with no data into a new table with "1" appended to the name. Then, the old table is deleted and the new table is renamed to remove the "1".

Note that this code will run against whatever Access considers to be the "Current" database. Thus, it would be a good idea to close all Access databases you may have open other than the one you wish to run this macro on prior to running it.

Hope this helps,

Ben

Sub CopyTable()
Dim strTable As String
Dim myDB As Database

'Plug in your table name here

strTable = "Table1"

'Now we check if there is a database open
On Error Resume Next
Set myDB = CurrentDb
If myDB Is Nothing Then 'Database not open, so exit
MsgBox "Please open the database prior to running macro"
Exit Sub
End If
On Error GoTo 0

'Since everything looks good, we will copy the table structure first
DoCmd.TransferDatabase acExport, "Microsoft Access", CurrentDb.Name, _
acTable, strTable, strTable & "1", True
'Now we'll delete the old table
DoCmd.DeleteObject acTable, strTable
'Finally, we will now rename the new table to match the old one.
DoCmd.Rename strTable, acTable, strTable & "1"

End Sub
 
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