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title: "Design Tables (Visual Database Tools) | Microsoft Docs"
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# Design Tables (Visual Database Tools)
  Table Designer devotes an entire window to the design of an individual table. The topics in this section explain how to use Table Designer to create and modify database tables.  
  
## In This Section  
 [Open Table Designer (Visual Database Tools)](visual-database-tools.md)  
 Open a new or existing database table.  
  
 [Save Your Work in Table Designer (Visual Database Tools)](../../database-engine/save-your-work-in-table-designer-visual-database-tools.md)  
 Save changes to specific tables or to all tables open in the Table Designer.