From the course: Access 2019 Essential Training
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Understand the Trust Center
From the course: Access 2019 Essential Training
Understand the Trust Center
- [Instructor] All Access database files have the potential to contain dangerous or malicious code buried within the embedded macros or Visual Basic programs. If you're unsure of a database's origins, for instance, if you just downloaded it from a random website, then you should be very careful about allowing them to run before you have a chance to check them out to make sure they're safe. Because of this, Access requires that you give specific permissions to a database file before it'll activate and run any code that it might contain within the database container. When opening a file for the first time, Access will display this yellow security bar across the top of the screen. There are several ways that we can handle this. First, we can click on the X in the upper right-hand corner to dismiss the warning. Access will let us work, but it won't run any macros or code modules. This could prevent the database from functioning as it was intended. You can also go over and click the Enable…
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