Making Sense of the Database Window in Access 2002

Most of the time when you open a database, it appears in a window like Figure 1. This window gives you access to all the stuff in your database, provides tools to change displays or create new items, and generally helps you manage your database stuff. And it looks cool. Who can ask for more?

Figure 1: Well, this is another fine database that you've gotten yourself into.

The Objects bar buttons down the left side of the window switch between lists of the objects (tables, queries, reports, and so on) that make up the database. Four toolbar buttons sit at the top of the database window to help you work with the database's objects:

Open displays the current object

Design lets you change the object

New creates a new object

The X deletes the current object (kiss that table good-bye!)

The other buttons to the right of the X change how Access 2002 lists the objects that your database contains. Your choices run the gamut from colorful, friendly icons to detailed mini-dossiers. Feel free to try the settings yourself — you can't hurt anything! (Just don't accidentally click the X, okay?)

Your database may start up looking like Figure 2. Don't let the pretty face fool you, though — this window is just a fancier front hung onto Figure 1's database. Seeing something like this window is a clue that you're working with a formal Access 2002 application. Most likely, the form was created by one of your in-house nerds. This special form is called a switchboard.

Figure 2: An example of a switchboard.

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Posted by Norman Johnson MARCH 02, 2009 | 00:14AM
in event manger we have a program on a server I want to put it on a notebook i cop[ed the parts I need to a flash drive but I can;t open it it appers to be locked it says it dosen't reckonize the path how do I change the path for my notebook.

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Posted by 4ndyman MARCH 02, 2009 | 01:25PM
The vast majority of programs aren't just simple files that the computer reads. When a program is installed, new information is added to the system Registry, which is basically a central location where a computer holds safe a whole bunch of pertinent info, like preferences and file locations. What's probably happening is that the program you are trying to run is trying to read information at a specific location in the Registry -- or maybe even in a "regular" file that isn't in the "right" place. Because the program isn't installed properly on your notebook, it can't find that particular path to the information.

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