1. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall1 Create a Table and Define Fields in a New Blank Database

2. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall2 Create a Table and Define Fields in a New Blank Database

3. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall3 Save and Close When you close an Access table, any changes made to the records are saved automatically. You will be prompted to save changes to design of the table or the layout of Datasheet view. Saving the entire DB is a different action then saving a table or other object.

4. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall4 Two views You can manipulate database tables in either DATASHEET view or DESIGN view. I usually use DESIGN view to create fields and their associated properties. Then use DATASHEET view to enter, modify, add, and delete records.

5. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall5 Create a Table and Define Fields You may use either table VIEW to: Add fields Rename fields Change data types Change field properties I’ll demonstrate this in DESIGN view and the chapter tutorial will instruct you to do this in DATASHEET view. Both are fine!

6. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall6 Create a Table In DESIGN View

7. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall7 Create a Table Adding data into fields for a record in a table must be done in DATASHEET view. Data is typed in just like data was entered in a Excel spreadsheet.

8. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall8 Create a Table Data may also be entered by Importing data from some other source (like an Excel spreadsheet.

9. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall9 Change the Structure of Tables and Add a Second Table Browse for data to import and then allow import wizard to prompt you.

10. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall10 Change the Structure of Tables and Add a Second Table Adding a second table to a database by importing an Excel spreadsheet

11. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall11 Create and Use a Query via Query Wizard

12. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall12 Create and Use a Form and Report

13. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall13 Create a Database Using a Template A database template contains pre- built tables, queries, forms, and reports to perform a specific task. –You do not have to create the objects. –All you need to do is enter your data and modify the pre-built objects to suit your needs.

14. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall14 Organize Objects in the Navigation Pane Objects include Tables, queries, forms, and reports

15. with Microsoft ® Access 2010© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall15 Save and Close When you close an Access table, any changes made to the records are saved automatically. You will be prompted to save changes to design of the table or the layout of Datasheet view. Saving the entire DB is a different action then saving a table or other object.