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

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