Datasheet

 Double-click any existing Access database file on your Desktop or in a
folder (as shown in Figure 1-8). Access opens automatically.
Access 2007 will open the database files you created with previous ver-
sions of Access, and should support whatever features are employed
within the database. All your tables should open properly, and reports,
forms, and queries should all work fine, too.
 If some helpful person has added Access to the Quick Launch toolbar
(on the Windows Taskbar), you can click the Access 2007 icon (it looks
like a pink key) and there you go. Access opens for you right then and
there.
Does having an Access icon on the Taskbar sound extremely convenient? It is!
To add the icon, follow these steps:
1. Choose Start➪Microsoft Office.
2. Hold down the Ctrl key and click and drag the Access menu command
down to the Quick Launch bar.
A black I-beam will appear where you point with your mouse on the bar,
indicating where the new icon will go.
3. Release the mouse button and then the Ctrl key
You’ve got yourself single-click access to, well, Access.
Figure 1-8:
Double-click
an Access
database
file, and
Access
opens
right up.
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