Exiting Access

Even though you have only barely gotten your feet wet with Access, take a look at how you exit the application. You can exit Access in several ways:

• Select File , and then select Exit .

• Click the Access window's Close ( X ) button on the upper right of the Access window.

• Press Alt+F4 .

Now that you are familiar with the Access window, it is important for you to understand what makes up an Access database and how information or data is actually arranged and viewed in a database. We will begin the discussion by defining what a database is and how different objects in Access make up a database.