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.

Instructions

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.