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STARTING AND OPENING A DATABASE (MS ACCESS PRACTICAL)

Starting MS Access

Unlike a word processing or spreadsheet document, which you can name after you have started or completed it, a database has to be named before any work is started on it.

  1. Click on the Start
  2. Select All Programs.
  3. Select Microsoft Office and then Microsoft Office Access.
  4. Check for New Blank Database and then click on ‘Blank database’.
  5. Type a name for your database into the ‘File Name’, box.
  6. Click Create and you are in Access environment.

Starting and opening a database - MS Access practical

When working in Access, you make use of tables. Tables are the most important object in the database.

To create a table, you can use any of the following methods:

  1. Datasheet view
  2. Design view
  3. Table wizard

Creating a Table in Datasheet view

1. Open the database.

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