Datasheet

If you click an icon (such as Marketing Projects), the right-hand panel dis-
cussed earlier (when we started with a new, blank database) activates, and
you can now give your new database a name and click the Download button
to download it from the Web (see Figure 1-16).
After the template is downloaded (or if it was a template that was available
within your installed copy of Access and no download was needed), you can
start building data into it. What’s different than the previous procedure that
uses this right-side panel to build a database from scratch (naming it, choos-
ing a place to store it) is that instead of having a blank “Table1” and nothing
else, the template gives you pre-made tables, reports, queries, and forms (in
various combinations and numbers, based on the template you chose) and
they’re all set up — all
you have to do is start entering records. Figure 1-17
shows the populated list of database components — a table and three
reports — that comes with the Contacts database template.
Just like the table you built from scratch, the template-based tables need to
be populated with data. You can change field names (see Chapter 5 for direc-
tions) and add and remove fields, too. After you tweak them to be appropri-
ate for
your database, you can begin entering records, one field at a time.
Figure 1-16:
Download a
template
from the
Web and
give it a
name that
suits your
needs.
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