Enclosing several characters in square brackets means any one of those characters. Existing records can be changed by appending information to fields, or by deleting or modifying the contents of fields. Data can be copied and pasted in the normal way. Changes to the current field can be undone by pressing the Esc ape key - a second depression will undo any other changes that might have been made to the current record. Using Existing Data One of a number of choices can be exercised if data already exists and you wish to use it with Access.
Access is capable of importing data from a number of other systems.
Database tables in other systems, or in another Access database, can be attached to an Access database. In this case the data can be altered by Access but are maintained outside the Access database file. Exporting to Other Systems Data can be exported to all of those systems from which it can be imported. Return to Table of Contents Continue with the next section.