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The database Navigation Pane

The database Navigation Pane

- [Instructor] The navigation pane on the left hand side of our screen serves as the table of contents for your database. It displays all of the objects, the tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros that make up the database, and it also allows you to filter and search through these objects to get to the one that you're looking for quickly. I've gone ahead and pulled up a copy of the two trees database that has a number of objects already created so that we can see what the navigation pane looks like when it's chock full of contents. Right now the navigation pane is in its default configuration where all of the objects are grouped together by their type. You'll notice that each type has a unique icon. Now the navigation pane starts out a little bit too narrow for my taste usually, so you can click on this bar here on the right hand side of the navigation pane and resize it however you need, so you can read the full text of each of the objects inside. At the very top, it says All…

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