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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Working with Tables</title>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN105F9" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><variable id="data_tables"><link href="text/shared/guide/data_tables.xhp">Working with Tables</link>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10617" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Data is stored in tables. As an example, your system address book that you use for your e-mail addresses is a table of the address book database. Each address is a data record, presented as a row in that table. The data records consist of data fields, for example the first and the last name fields and the e-mail field.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Table With the Table Wizard</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1061E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In %PRODUCTNAME you can create a new table using the <link href="text/shared/explorer/database/tablewizard00.xhp">Table Wizard</link>:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10632" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new table.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10636" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Tables</emph> icon.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Table</emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Table With the Design View</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1064C" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new table.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10650" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Tables</emph> icon.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Table in Design View</emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1065F" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">You see the <link href="text/shared/guide/data_tabledefine.xhp">Table Design</link> window.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10778" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Table View</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1077C" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Some database types support table views. A table view is a query that is stored with the database. For most database operations, a view can be used as you would use a table.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10782" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new table view.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Tables</emph> icon.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1078E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Table View</emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10795" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">You see the View Design window, which is almost the same as the <link href="text/shared/explorer/database/02010100.xhp">Query Design window</link>.</paragraph>
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