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opportunities for a better life 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 if there are any
recently opened files they'll appear
here but if you don't see the one you're
looking for
just click 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
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 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
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