There's nothing in an MDE that prevents you from viewing the design of
tables and queries. As for forms, reports, and modules, you are not
*supposed* to be able to see them in design view in an MDE -- that's the
main reason for MDEs in the first place. That said, there are a few
outfits who claim to have a way to recover a lot of design information
from an MDE. If you have a legal and moral right to do that, you can
search the web for these people.