Tables and Table Design
Everything in
Microsoft Access has several Views. Each object (Table, Form, or Report)
has a View that displays the object as a User would see it. For Tables,
this is the Datasheet View. For Forms, it is the Form View, and for
Reports, it is Print Preview.
In the first
lesson, we created a simple customer table in Datasheet View. We used
the Table Tools to add Fields to the Table. So far, so
good. All objects in Access also have a Design View. The Design
View is how a programmer sees the objects. For Tables, Design View lets
the programmer define what data will be saved in a Table and how the
information will be formatted.