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Create the database file

Create the database file

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Create the database file

- [Narrator] Unlike the other Office programs that immediately give you a blank document to get started in, Access starts with the options for creating a new database or opening an existing database. On the first screen we see the option to create a brand new empty blank database with this icon right here. Or you might also see some featured templates to choose from. You can also search thousands of online templates using the search box up here at the top. Microsoft suggests searching for business, logs, industry, inventories, and things like that. Let's suppose that I have a large record collection and I like to share with friends and families. I can run a quick search for library. And when I press enter, one of the results is a lending library database, which sounds interesting. Let's go ahead and give it a click, and take a look. This will show me a preview of the database here and also will give me a description over here on the right. In this case, this database will help me…

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