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Access 2003
Lesson 7: Opening a Table and Learning to Navigate Records
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Objectives
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Tables are created and maintained in the Tables tab of the Objects palette in Microsoft
Access. The Contact Management database contains four tables: Calls, Contact Types,
Contacts, and Switchboard Items. We will discuss the Contacts table in this lesson.
(If the database window is not displayed, then choose Window Contact
Management: Database from the menu bar.)
• To open the table in Datasheet View, double-click the Contacts table in the right
window pane.
(You could also either click once on the Contacts form and then click the Open
button, or you could right-click on the Contacts form and select Open from the
shortcut menu.
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The Datasheet View looks like an Excel spreadsheet. It consists of columns and rows.
Field names -- Contact ID, First Name, Last Name, Dear, Address, City, State, etc. --
appear as column headings. Records represent rows with data input into the fields. The
number of rows that appear in the table will equal the number of records that have been
added to the table. One blank row always appears as the last row of the database. This
blank row is used to add a new record the table.
The status area in the lower left area of the window indicates the number of records in
the table as well as the record number displayed in the window.
• Click the arrows in the status area to move to the first record, previous record,
next record, or last record in the table.
• The new record button displays a blank row into which information for a new
record can be added to the table.
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The vertical scroll bar is located along the right edge of the screen and can be used to
move up or down the table if the total number of records exceed the records shown on the
screen. Similarly, the horizontal scroll bar located at the bottom of the screen can be
used to move left or right across the window if the fields in a table exceed the number of
fields displayed on the screen.
Using the Vertical Scroll Bar:
• Click the up or down arrows in the scroll bar to move up or down through the
table records.
• Click the left or right arrows in the scroll bar to move left or right through the
fields in a table.
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Another way to navigate records in a table is to scroll up and down one screen at a time
using the PageUp and PageDown keys on the keyboard. Other keys also provide
shortcuts to move through fields and records, including:
The Record Selector located to the left of each record in Datasheet View identifies the
operation being performed against a selected record at any given time.
• indicates the current record. The record is saved with the information
displayed on the screen.
• indicates the selected record is being edited and the changes have not yet been
saved.
• indicates a blank record into which information for a new record can be added
to the table.
A blank record row always appears as the last row in a table. You must add new table
records using this row.
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Challenge!