Received an Access database from a client.  All the objects were hidden.  I used the Option menu, Current DB, Navigation Options, and clecked the Show Hidden Objects box.  Of course all the object names show as grayed out.  So I right clicked on a table object, properties, and the Hidden box was already unchecked.  At this point I have no idea how many different things I've tried to make these objects act like they are no longer hidden, but nothing works.

Any ideas????

Hi,

I seems to be a corrupted database file issue. Have you try repairing te file?

See if the Compact and Repair Database feature can help you:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/access-help/compact-and-repair-a-database-HA010341740.aspx

Best regards, 

Rex, thank you for the suggestion.  Repairing the database did not fix this problem.  I did try to fix it by importing all the object into a new database.  That did work.  Glad it did.  It's not that I could not see the objects, its just that they were grayed out, and that just bothered me.