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LibreOffice Base Tutorial #1 – Basic Functionality

Base is the database component of the free and open-source office suite LibreOffice, with this solid database management application you'll be able to create and manage databases, prepare forms and reports that make access to data easy for the end user, what's more you can do all this with the help of wizards if you are a novel user of Base (or new to database creation and management in general). In today's tutorial you'll learn how to run Base for the first time and its most basic functions.

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In order to launch Base you can run LibreOffice and from its main window options select “Database”

The First dialog you'll see is the Database Wizard, here you can choose to create a new database, open an existing one or connect with an existing database. For the purposes of this first tutorial I will select the first option

Click Next and you'll be taken to the step two, the default options are fine so click Next again and you'll be prompted to select a name and location for the new database.

Finally you'll find yourself with the database interface, it consist of three panels: the Database panel, here you'll find the components you can add to your database, Tasks is where you'll see the possible task for each component, and the main work area that changes accordingly to the selection in the Database panel.

So, lets create a Table, select Table from the Database area, and in the Tasks panel select “Use Wizard to Create Table... The Table Wizard will appear. First of all you need to select a Category for this example I'll select Personal and from the Sample tables Plants and from the Available fields I'll add CommonName, Genus, Species and DatePlanted.
Should look like this:

In the step 2 I left options on its defaults.

Same on step 3 and 4 and finally clicked on the Finish button.

And the table was created. All you have to do now is to start filling the cells for each field.

Final Words

As you can see creating a new database is easy and simple if you use the wizards. LibreOffice Base is an incredible free database management program, download LibreOffice right now by clicking on the link below. It is 100% free, fully functional and thoroughly tested to be virus and malware free.

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