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Understanding the Trust Center

Understanding the Trust Center - Microsoft Access Tutorial

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Understanding the Trust Center

- All Access database files have the potential to contain dangerous or malicious code buried within the embedded macros or visual basic routines. If you're unsure about a database's origins, you should be very careful about allowing them to run before you have a chance to check them out and make sure that they're safe. Because of this, Access requires you to give specific permissions to a database file before it will activate and run any code within the database. So when opening a new file for the first time, Access is going to display this yellow security warning across the top of the screen. There are several ways that we can handle this. If I go over here to the far right, I've got an X button. I can click that to dismiss the warning. In this case, Access will let us work but it won't run any macros or code modules and this could prevent the database from functioning properly. We can come over here and press this button that says Enable Content. If we press the Enable Content…

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