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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> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Table With the Table Wizard</paragraph> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Table</emph>.</paragraph> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Table With the Design View</paragraph> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Table in Design View</emph>.</paragraph> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 71cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 72cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10778" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Table View</paragraph> 73cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 74cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 75cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 76cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 77cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 78cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 79cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 80cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 81cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 82cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1078E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Table View</emph>.</paragraph> 83cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 84cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 85cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 86cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 87cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1067B" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 88cdf0e10cSrcweir<embedvar href="text/shared/explorer/database/main.xhp#base"/> 89cdf0e10cSrcweir</paragraph> 90cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10683" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 91cdf0e10cSrcweir<embedvar href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/> 92cdf0e10cSrcweir</paragraph> 93cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 94cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 95cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 96