Opening a Database
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Opening a Database
Before you can work on a database, you have to open it in Access. Okay, but
wait a minute: Before you can open it, you have to create it! If you want to try
Access but you don’t have a database to work with, skip ahead to the
“Playing with the Access Sample Databases" section (later in this chapter) to
try out the Access sample databases.
You can open an existing database from the Getting Started screen, or within
the regular Access window.
Figure 2-1:
The Getting
Started
Access
window.
What’s this weird security error message.
If you try to open a database containing any
programming (in the form of macros, VBA pro-
cedures, or action queries, which we explain in
later books), Microsoft wants you to know that
you are taking a chance. Programming embed-
ded in any document can, after all, include
viruses that could infect your computer.
Before you panic, you need to understand some
things. First, unlike in the real world, in the com-
puter world viruses don’t just happen. A
virus
is
a program that must be written by a human. In
nature, viruses exist because they’re living
beings (sort of) that can reproduce themselves.
In a computer, viruses are programs, created
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