How to Add Data to a Microsoft Access Table

This is how you get your information into a database table you've set up. These instructions work for Access 97.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Microsoft Access

1. Launch MS Access and open your database.

2. Use the F11 key to switch to the database window.

3. Click on the Table tab. A list of tables appears.

4. Select the table that you want to use, then click Open. The table appears. Each horizontal row represents one record. Each column in the row represents a field in the record.

5. Click in the first cell in the empty record.

6. Type the information that should go there.

7. Move from one horizontal column to the next by using the Tab key or by clicking in the column.

8. When one record is complete, a new, blank record will automatically appear at the bottom of the rows.

Tips & Warnings

• In Access, a database is made up of various "tables," but each table is probably what you'd think of as a "database" - it's a collection of records.
• If you created a form for entering data, you will have the choice between entering your data through a form or directly into a table.