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A View is a query. Because of this, the details of how to create and use a View are in the [[Documentation/OOo3 User Guides/Getting Started/Creating queries and reports|Creating queries]] section.

: [[Image:VacationsTable.png|thumb|none|500px|''View of some fields from the Vacations table.'']]

A View is also a table. Its fields come from the fields of one or more tables of the database. It provides a way to look at a number of fields without regard to the table to which any of the fields belong.  A View can consists of  some of the fields on one table as shown above. Or, it can consist of fields from more than one field as shown below.

: [[Image:BaseFieldsView.png|thumb|none|500px|''View of fields from  the Fuel and Payment Type tables.'']]

{{Documentation/Caution|Data can not be entered into a View like it can be added to a table. It is strictly for viewing data which has already been added.}}

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