2007 Microsoft® Office System Step by Step, Second Edition

Creating a Table from a Template

Although manually creating a table is relatively easy, if one of the available table templates is close to what you want, using it might save you a little time and effort.

In this exercise, you will use a table template to add an Employees table to an existing database.

Note

USE the TableTemplate database. This practice file is located in the Documents\Microsoft Press\2007OfficeSBS\AccessCreating folder.

OPEN the TableTemplate database.

1. On the Create tab, in the Tables group, click the Table Templates button to display the list of available templates, and then click Contacts.

   

   A new table opens. This table contains fields ...