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Hi Lisa

Thank you for your question

As to the first part of your question, the answer is yes you can; you have to split the database.

Simply go to Tools-database utilities-database splitter
and folow the wizard. Access will create two versions of the database, a front end with just the forms, queries, reports and macros, and a backend with just the tables. You can then make multiple copies of the front end for different users

As to your second question, the properties you are refering to are set against individual forms. Open the form in question and open its properties sheet, and set Allow Edits to False

Hope this is useful

Regards

Stephen