Touring the Contact Management Application

The Contact Management application appears quite complex to most first-time Access users. The Database Wizard generates multiple Table, Form, Report, and Module objects in the new database. The following sections explain the purpose of each object in the context of your new Contact Management application.

Figure 2.11. The Main Switchboard form of the Contact Management application created by the Database Wizard.

Table Objects in the Database Window

Tables are the foundation of Access databases. To examine some Table objects generated from the Contact Management template by the Database Wizard, do ...

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