using a database as a template

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I have created an access database for a friend. They will be using to keep
track of the characters in a book she is writing. She would like to use this
for other books but wants to keep each book separate. Is there a way to make
an access database a template so i don't have go through creating a whole new
database?

Thanks
Lynn
 
Easiest is just to keep a blank copy of the database, and copy it each time
she needs a new one.
 
I have created an access database for
a friend. They will be using to keep
track of the characters in a book she
is writing. She would like to use this
for other books but wants to keep each
book separate. Is there a way to make
an access database a template so i don't
have go through creating a whole new
database?
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I understand she may have business, procedural, or personal reasons for
wanting to keep the books in separate databases, but it should be relatively
easy to qualify the pertinent tables with "book name", select that going in,
and use one database for all books. Unless the reasons for keeping each
book's information in a separate database are _compelling_, you'll certainly
find one database for all the books to be simpler for the user, and easier
to maintain, in the long run.

If those reasons are _compelling_, Doug has already answered your
question... copy the database, and rename the copy so it will be easy to
identify the book to which it applies.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
 
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