Access 2010 datasheet view only/relationships unavailable

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Published on 2010-12-23T21:04:41Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 21:56 UTC
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I'm relatively new to MS Access in general and just started working with Access 2010. I've created a new web database with a few tables that I need to relate.

First problem: For the life of me, I can't view anything in any view other than datasheet view; everywhere I would expect to be able to change the view, only datasheet view is available.

Second problem: I can't change the primary key(s). Presumably I would be able to do this if I could get out of datasheet view and into design view.

Third problem: The 'Relationships' button is greyed out.

I know these appear to be really simple things but I've been looking for much more time than I'd like to admit trying to figure out how to get unstuck.

Update: It would appear that this is happening because it is a 'web database' as I've been able to do all of the above in a new regular database. With this in mind let me ask a different question: Am I able to add relationships and change primary keys in a web database? If so how? More generally, what is the point of a web database?

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