Microsoft announced on Monday that it will be bringing a new default for Windows Office users that is said to "block Internet macros by default." Microsoft's new Internet macro blocking scheme will be ...

Microsoft has been taking increasingly large steps over the past few months to put a stop to macro-induced security risks in its apps and services. Its latest move is to block internet macros by ...

5 seconds in google tells me that you can call Access with the "/compact" command line switch. Also, there's a KB article at support.microsoft.com that give further details.