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Database

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Part 3: Enter two values into the fields

1.

Click in the Continent field and type

Europe

.

If the entire record becomes highlighted, it means you clicked outside the field.
To select a field, click inside the field borders. Don’t click the field name.

2.

Press Tab or click in the Country field and type

France

.

Part 4: Make new records

1.

Click

on the Default button bar, or choose New Record from the Edit menu.

You see a new record under the first record.

2.

Choose New Record from the Edit menu again.

Three records now appear in the database.

Part 5: Finish entering data in the new records

1.

In the second record, click in the Continent field, type

Asia

, and then

press Tab.

2.

Click in the Country field of the same record and type

Japan

.

3.

In the third record, type

South America

in the Continent field, press Tab,

and then type

Brazil

in the Country field.

Part 6: Close the database

Note

You may want to save your example database and use it to practice

other database operations described in this chapter and in onscreen Help. For
example, you could try adding different field types, changing the layout of
the fields, and searching for specific records.

The first record
looks like this

Your database with three records