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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> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Table With the Table Wizard</paragraph> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Table</emph>.</paragraph> 63*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 64*cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 65*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Table With the Design View</paragraph> 66*cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 67*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 68*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 69*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 70*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 71*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 72*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 73*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 74*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Table in Design View</emph>.</paragraph> 75*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 76*cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 77*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 78*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10778" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Table View</paragraph> 79*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 80*cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 81*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 82*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 83*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 84*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 85*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 86*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 87*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 88*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1078E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Table View</emph>.</paragraph> 89*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 90*cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 91*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 92*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 93*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1067B" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 94*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embedvar href="text/shared/explorer/database/main.xhp#base"/> 95*cdf0e10cSrcweir</paragraph> 96*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10683" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 97*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embedvar href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/> 98*cdf0e10cSrcweir</paragraph> 99*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 100*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 101*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 102