To open Microsoft Access:

• Click on the start button in the lower left corner of your screen.  In the Microsoft Office suite, click Microsoft Access (the one with the key as an icon).
• Select blank access database and click OK.

• Access will immediately ask you to name the database.  Name it and click Create.
• Highlight the option to the right that says "Create a table in design view".
• Click new on the menu bar.  A box should pop up.
• Click on design view and then OK.

• Your new empty table should pop up.

To close Microsoft Access:

• After you have followed the directions in the "Creating Data" section of this tutorial, save your information.
• Click on File from the menu bar.
• Click Close to close down the current table or Exit to quit Access all together.