Microsoft Access 2007
Tips

Tip 1: File refresh when deleting records

Microsoft Office Access is used for the creation of databases.  For those who are new to the programme you may not understand how it works.  I wanted to delete a lot of records I was storing in my database to get rid of files as well as to shrink the file size.  Unfortunately when I tried to delete, nothing happened.  If this has happened to you then you should know that Access does not recover free space immediately.  In fact it will take a long time for the database to refresh.  So I found out you have to be patient in your deletions.