Access 2013 Read/Write Connection on 365

Have web tables all set up on 365 account.  Have set the connection management to Read/Write.  But I can't figure out how to link to them from a desktop Access app.
From within the desktop app if I use the External Data tab - to link to them - attempting the Sharepoint Lists - - - the tables don't appear.  Am pretty sure because the web tables on 365 are not Sharepoint Lists.
Have searched on this for awhile and am not finding instructions anywhere.  ...  One can get a Reporting desktop app set up with a single button but it is read only......sure wish it was this easy for read/write..... 
Appreciate any help......

It still possible to use a 2010 web application in 2013 that is using SharePoint tables, so some confusing here is legitimate.
In your case as you WELL note you using 2013, and thus as you WELL note it makes no sense to look for tables in SharePoint when clearly that is not where they reside.
To find the connection string in the web application just go file.
You see your application name, and below that
Data Connectivity
In that you see the server name, and the database name. You can use your 365 Account as the logon + password.
However, for a read/write? In the above area, click on "manage" beside the connections.
In the list of options for connections such as "From any location", and the "Enable Read-write" connections, there is an option called:
View Read-Write Connection Information
Click on the above option. This will result in a dialog box that gives you database name, and the user + password required to link to that database in read/write mode.
So you simply create a regular plane Jane desktop database.  You then choose external data and then choose ODBC. This will let you create a link to SQL server. How this works much the same as it always has in Access (more then 16+ years).  You
then type in the correct server + user information from above web application.
I do think you need to choose the new ODBC 11 (Native sql server driver) for this to work. So, don't choose SQL from the list of drivers, but choose the new native or ODBC 11 drivers when setting up the ODBC connection from Access.
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