THANK YOU Troy!
It is amazing that this solution is not a part of the built-in help file
(i.e. installed with the Access files; searchable locally by the user rather
than going to internet); I suspect that a lot of shared database
users/admins are encountering this problem ... the admins don't know who is
(are) locking up the database, and therefore he/she can't make any changes!
Thanks again. -- LL in North Carolina.