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accessed from other OOo components such as Writer and Calc. You need to do

this if you want to link your forms into it.

4) Click Finish and save your new database, giving it a name. Unlike creating

other documents in OOo, databases must be saved when you first create them.

After saving the database, you should see the main Base window (Figure 421), which

contains three panels. The left-hand panel is Database, with icons for Tables, Queries,

Forms and Reports.

Figure 421: Main Base window

The next step is to create a table. Again, this is covered in more detail in Chapter 8

(Getting Started with Base) in the Getting Started guide. Here we are going to create

a small table as an example.

1) Choose Tables in the left-hand column, then choose Create Table in Design

View under Tasks.

2) Use the Table Design window to tell Base which fields to create. We will have

just three fields: Name, Address, and Telephone.

3) On the first line, enter under Field Name ID and set the Field Type to Integer

[INTEGER]. In the gray box at the left of the line, right-click and select

Primary Key, bringing up a key icon in the box. In the Field Properties at

the bottom of the window is an Auto Value option; change this to Yes.

Tip

Setting up the Primary Key field with Auto Value set to Yes is an

important step. If this is not done, the form you create later will be

much trickier to use and may generate errors for the user. Make sure

you get this step right!

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