To Open The Sample Database

1.  Click with the left mouse button on the “Open Database” tool bar  button

2.  Double click on the “sample” sub-directory in the directories list

3.  Click on “sample.idc” in the file name list box

4.  Click on OK

While the computer is opening the sample database a banner will appear asking you to wait.  Then the first badge in the database will appear.  You will notice that some tool bar buttons have become available (they went from grayed to colored).  Also, the status bar displays a set of 3 numbers indicating that you are looking at the first badge from a selection of 8 badges from a database containing 8 badges.  We will explain exactly what this means later.