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