From the course: Access 2016 Essential Training
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Creating the database file
From the course: Access 2016 Essential Training
Creating the database file
- Unlike the other office programs that immediately give you a blank document to get started in, Access starts with the options for creating a new database or opening an existing database. On the first screen that we see we have a list of available starting templates that are grouped into categories here along the top. I've got categories for Database, Business, Logs, and so on. If I want to perform a search against the available templates, we could just use the search box up here. I'm going to type in the word vehicle and when I press enter, Access is going to search through the templates that are available online and it finds this one here called the Desktop vehicle maintenance database. If I want to find out more information about it I'll just give it a click and we get this new window that has some descriptions about what it is. Tells me how big the database is, so it's not very big at all. If I want to use it, all I need to do is provide a File Name and a path to store it. When I…
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Key database concepts4m 14s
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Launching Access and the backstage screen54s
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Creating the database file4m 6s
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Understanding the Trust Center3m 28s
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Digging into Ribbon tabs5m
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Using the Navigation pane4m 47s
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Using the Tell Me feature1m 47s
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Using the Quick Access Toolbar3m 3s
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Signing in to a Microsoft account1m 33s
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Making backups2m 14s
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Accessing Access help2m 15s
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