Opening an Existing Database

The Garden Company’s database, which is called GardenCo, contains information about its employees, products, suppliers, and customers that is stored in a series of tables. As you complete the exercises in this book, you will work with these tables to develop an assortment of queries, forms, reports, data access pages, macros, and modules that can be used to enter, edit, and manipulate the information in the tables in many ways.

In this exercise, you will open the GardenCo database, explore some of its objects, and then close the database. You won’t find a lot of detailed explanation here, because this is just an overview.

BE SURE TO start your computer, but don’t start Access yet.

USE the GardenCo database in the practice ...

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