CHAPTER 3
Creating Access Tables

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IN THIS CHAPTER

• Creating a new table
• Modifying the design of a table
• Working with field properties
• Specifying the primary key
• Adding indexes
• Documenting a table's design
• Saving a new table
• Working with tables
• Adding data to a table
• Using attachment fields

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In this chapter, you learn how to create a new Access database and its tables. You establish the database container to hold your tables, forms, queries, reports, and code that you build as you learn Access. Finally, you create the actual tables used by the Collectible Mini Cars database.

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ON THE WEB

This chapter uses the examples in the database named Chapter03. accdb. If you haven't yet downloaded this file from the book's website, please do so now.

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Table Types

To Access, a table is always just a table. But to your Access application, different tables serve different purposes. A database table fits into one of three types: an object table, a transaction table, or a join...