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.
If there are any recently opened files, they will
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.
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.
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 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.
I'll open a table, a query,
and I think I'll also open a form, 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 want to rename an object, you can just right-click the name in the Navigation pane,
and select Rename.
And then type whatever name you want.
To close the database, click the File tab, and
select Close Database.
And in Access, you're not going to be saving your database
because you're saving each object individually.
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 okay.