You should be able to get the Description for a field in ADOX with:
Column.Properties("Description")

You may find that Access 2000 and later do not maintain the CreateDate etc.

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"Siegfried Heintze" wrote in message
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Ah hah! They were there all along using ADOX (column comments, that is).

Should table comments work the same way? For tables I can get the date
modified, Date Created, Type. The properties are empty, however. There is
nothing with the value "description".

Thanks,
Siegfried