Creating a Table in Design View

You could continue to use the Table Wizard to build some of the other tables in the Contact Tracking database to mimic those in LawTrack Contacts. For example, you could use the Customers sample table from the Business samples to build the Companies table or the Products sample table to get a jump-start on the Products table you need. However, you’ll find it very useful to learn the mechanics of building a table from scratch, so now is a good time to explore Design view and learn how to build tables without using the Table Wizard. You’ll also see many additional features that you can use to customize the way your tables (and any queries, forms, or reports built on these tables) work.

To design a new table in a database, ...

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