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in this video we're going to talk about
opening and saving databases and objects
in Access this works a little bit
differently from other programs like
Word or Excel and it's important that
you know how it works before you start
editing databases we'll start by opening
a database make sure you're in backstage
view and if there are any recently
opened files they'll appear here and you
can also click recent to see more but if
you don't see the one you're looking for
just click open and then you can double
click your file to open it
now you may get a warning message here
so if you trust the source of the
database then click enable content and
if you don't want to see the warning
message again then you can click yes to
make it a trusted document now earlier I
mentioned that access is a little bit
different from other programs and that's
because you're not going to be editing
the database itself but rather the
objects within the database access
treats each one of these objects as
separate documents and each one can be
opened saved and closed individually so
you can think of the database as just a
folder of different objects let's open a
few objects just double click on each
one and I'm going to open a table query
and I think I'll also open a forum and a
report
each of these objects now has a tab on
the document tabs bar if you make any
changes you'll need to save the object
before you close it you can do that by
clicking save on the quick access
toolbar and this only saves the current
object and to close it you can click the
X over on the right
if you need to rename an object you can
just right-click the name and the
navigation pane and select rename
and then type whatever name you want
to close the database click the file tab
and select closed database and in access
you're not going to be saving your
database because you're saving each
object individually and this may seem a
little bit strange at first but as long
as you remember to think of the database
as a folder of objects then you'll be ok
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