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Understand the Trust Center

Understand the Trust Center

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Understand the Trust Center

- [Instructor] All Access database files have a potential to contain dangerous or malicious code buried within the macro objects or visual basic modules. If you're unsure about a database's origins, for instance if you just downloaded it from a random internet site, then you should be very careful about allowing them to run before you have a chance to check them out and make sure that they're safe. As a precaution, Access requires that you give specific permissions to every database file before it will activate and run any code that might reside within the container. When opening an existing database file for the first time, Access'll display this yellow security warning bar below the ribbon. There's couple of different ways that we can respond to it. First, we can come over to the far right and simply click the X. This'll dismiss the warning, and Access'll let us get to work, but it won't run any macros or code modules. This could prevent the database from functioning as intended. We…

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