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In this video we're going to talk about opening
and saving databases and objects.

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In Access, this works a little bit differently
from other programs like Word or Excel, and

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it's important that you know how it works
before you start editing databases.

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We'll start by opening a database.

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Make sure you're in Backstage view, then click
Open.

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And if there are any recently opened files,
they will appear here.

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But if you don't see the one you're looking
for, just click Computer…

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Browse.

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And then you can double-click your file to
open it.

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You may get a warning message here, so if
you trust the source of the database, then

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click Enable Content.

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Earlier I mentioned that Access is a little
bit different from other programs, and that's

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because you're not going to be editing the
database itself, but rather the objects within

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the database.

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Access treats each one of these objects as
separate documents, and each one can be opened,

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saved, and closed individually.

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So you can think of the database as just a
folder of different objects.

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Let's open a few objects.

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Just double-click on each one, and I'm going
to open a table… a query… and I think

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I'll also open a form… and a report.

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Each of these objects now has a tab on the
Document Tabs bar.

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If you make any changes, you'll need to save
the object before you close it.

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You can do that by clicking Save on the Quick
Access Toolbar… and this only saves the

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current object.

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And to close it, you can click the X over
on the right.

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If you want to rename an object, you can just
right-click it from the Navigation pane…

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and select Rename.

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And then type whatever name you want.

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To close the database, click the File tab…
and select Close.

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And in Access, you're not going to be saving
your database because you're saving each object

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individually.

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This may seem a little bit strange at first,
but as long as you remember to think of the

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database as a folder of objects, then you'll
be okay.