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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 then click open and if there are
any recently opened files they'll appear
here but if you don't see the one you're
looking for click computer browse
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 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 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 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
close 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