What are these tables?

[The Thing]

I have Access '97 running on a Windows 2000 machine and lately I have begun to see tables apparently generated automatically in the table view of new or existing DB's.

In comparison to ordinary tables created by the user they appear to be slightly greyed out. Are these a normal part of Access that were previously hidden, and if so how do I hide them again?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Mile-O]

If they go by the name of MSysObjects, etc then they are system tables.

To hide them, got to Tools -> Options and then uncheck Show System Objects

 

[The Thing]

Thank you

Mile-O-Phile, thanks for your help, worked as you said it would.