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How to Split Database in Microsoft Access

If you have many users of a database, try converting it to spilt database structure. Your database will be divided into two main parts; first is the front end file containing all the objects (queries, macros, forms, reports and modules). The second part is the backend file that is linked to all the frontend files. Backend can be stored in location which can be shared with many users. The front end is distributed to each user’s desktop and linked to the shared database. This reduces network traffic as the file does not have to be retrieved every time. Database manager and database splitter helps in the process of creating such architecture.
Splitting your database has several advantages; if you are sharing it over LAN or with a large group of people, a back end version is made so that all the updates can be viewed by everyone using the file.
In this Access tutorial, we will teach you how to create a split database in Access.


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How to Use Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Access

Many computer users like to work with keyboards. It increases their speed and makes them less dependent on mouse clicks. There are functions that are common to all the products of Microsoft products such as cut, copy and paste and the shortcuts are the same for them in all Microsoft Office programs.
In this tutorial, we will teach you keyboard shortcuts in Access that you can use to perform various actions without using your mouse.


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How to Use Search, Find and Go to Option in Microsoft Access

Access gives you a few different ways to jump to a record that you need. The find option in Access allows you to locate the specific text you can’t seem to find. The search option makes it easy to look for a person or order but it does not give you the perfect match. The “go to” options help you to navigate through records easily. Search MS access for records and objects through the use of these options.


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How to Cut, Copy and Paste in Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access is database application software that lets you create database of various sorts with ease. In access, there are advance options that you can use to cut, paste and copy data. There is a paste append option that allows the user to avail the clipboard paste function. This means that you can copy data and it will be copied to the clipboard. If you want to paste anything from the clipboard, simply insert it from there.


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How to Create client-editable PDFs in Acrobat X

If you have to send your files to a client, you will have to be sure that the file can be edited by the client for to make it easy for the both of you. Since Adobe PDF does not have a lot of tools that can be used to type in text and to make PDF editable you will have to make text fields in there to create editable pdfs.


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How to Add text with the Typewriter tool in Acrobat X

If you get a form which has no existing text fields, means you cannot simply click and type in the form. What you can do is use the typewriter tool in Acrobat and type in the text.
In this tutorial we will show you how to add text with Acrobat typewriter tool.


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How to Extract images and graphics to use elsewhere using Acrobat X

When you export images from Acrobat X, the resolution of the image does not change. In your Acrobat X files there may be hundreds of images and you can extract all of them at once to use them in some other program or for any other use. To extract an image from PDF you have a button with which all the images get exported at once.
In this tutorial we will show you how to extract pictures from PDF.


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How to Convert a form to a regular PDF in Acrobat X

The files which are created in Adobe Acrobat X can be viewed in Adobe Reader. The latest version is Adobe Reader 10 which comes with a lot of features but it still lacks behind when it comes to saving the data. So if you are sending a form to a person who wants to see the form as a regular PDF, follow the instructions given below as in this tutorial we will show you how to convert form to PDF.


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How to Print comments in Acrobat X

Sometimes you get a PDF file in which there are lots of comments and it becomes very difficult to see each comment as they can be added using various Acrobat X tools.
To view all the comments on a single page, you can print the comments in Acrobat separately. Each page will be followed with a page of comments that were added in it.
To understand how to print comments in this software, follow the tutorial below.


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How to Build smaller PDFs with the same content using Acrobat X

Documents are now mostly uploaded on the web in a PDF format. The size of the file matters a lot when you want to upload the document and you want other people to download it easily. The file size can be reduced to a certain extent by using a feature of Adobe Acrobat X.
To learn how to reduce the PDF size in Acrobat X, follow the tutorial below.


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