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Microsoft Office Access 2003 Inside Out
Pa rt 1: Understanding Microsoft Access
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database (Housing.mdb) that comes with this book. First, follow the instructions at the
beginning of this book for installing the sample files on your hard drive. When you start
Access, it displays the Getting Started page in the task pane open to the right, as shown in
Figure 2-2.
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Figure 2-2. The Getting Started page in the Access task pane.
Click the Open link to see the Open dialog box, sh own in Figure 2-3. In th e O pen dial og box,
select the file Housing.mdb from the folder to which you installed the sample databases, and
then click Open. By default, the companion CD setup program will place Housing.mdb in
C:\Microsoft Press\Access 2003 Inside Out. You can also double-click the file name to open the
database. (If you haven’t set options in Windows Explorer to show file name extensions for
registered applications, you won’t see the .mdb extension for your database files.)
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Figure 2-3. The Open dialog box for databases.
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