Datasheet

7. Click the Download button underneath the File Name text box.
Access displays a message to verify you’re running a genuine copy of Microsoft
Office.
8. Click Continue to validate your version of Microsoft Office.
Access validates your version of Office; if it’s valid, Access downloads the template
from Microsoft Office Online and creates the
Exercise1-6.accdb database in the
specified folder and opens the database showing the Nutrition Tracker Startup
Screen form.
9. Click the Microsoft Office Button and click Close Database to close the new tem-
plate database and return to the Getting Started with Microsoft Office Access page.
Check the From Microsoft Office Online section out regularly, as Microsoft routinely
updates this with new and revised templates.
Opening an existing database
After you create a new database — blank or from a template — and close it, you must
open it again to use it. You also need to open an existing database if someone else cre-
ates it and sends it to you.
The My Practice Databases folder on the CD-ROM (which you copied to your My
Documents folder on your hard disk) contains the database files used throughout this
book. If you haven’t copied the files to your computer yet, see Appendix A.
Exercise 1-7: Opening an Existing Database
In this exercise, you open an existing database (Exercise1-7.accdb) that you copied
from the CD-ROM.
1. Launch Microsoft Office Access by clicking the Start button or a desktop shortcut.
The Getting Started with Microsoft Office Access page appears.
2. Click the Microsoft Office Button and click Open.
The Open dialog box appears.
3. Navigate to the Documents\My Practice Databases\Chapter01 folder (or the folder
where you saved the practice files from the CD-ROM).
4. Click Exercise1-7.accdb.
5. Click Open.
Access opens the
Exercise1-7.accdb database, which displays contact
information.
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