APPENDIX E
RESERVED WORDS AND SYMBOLS

Reserved words and symbols have significance to Access 2010 and the Access 2010 database engine. Errors can be encountered when using reserved words and symbols during the naming and use of fields, tables, controls, variables, and other Access objects. These errors can be encountered in either design time or runtime but may not be informative enough to denote a reserved word or symbol as the cause of the error. Reserved word and symbol errors can be avoided by surrounding reserved words and symbols with brackets ([]), but as a best practice, it’s wise not to use reserved words nor symbols when naming Access objects.

TABLE E.1 RESERVED WORDS AND SYMBOLS