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Database navigation pane

Database navigation pane

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Database navigation pane

- [Instructor] The navigation pane on the left side the screen, serves as the table of contents for your database. It displays all of the objects, the tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros, that make up the database and also allows you to filter and search through those objects to get to the ones that you're looking for quickly. I've gone ahead and pulled up a database that has a number of objects already created so you can see what the navigation pane looks like when it's full of stuff. Right now the navigation page is in its default configuration where all the objects are grouped together by type. Here at the top we have the tables, then we have the queries, the forms, the reports, and if we had any, we'd see macros down at the bottom. By default, the navigation pane starts out a little bit narrow for my taste. So, I'm gonna go over here to this bar in the middle and I'm gonna click where I see these two double-headed arrows, and I'm just gonna click and drag it open a little…

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