As well as selecting a primary key for each table you may also specify other columns to be indexed. Indexes speed up searching, but slow down adding and deleting of records (indexes are effectively another table that’s created but is hidden from you).
Open a table in Design View.
Press the toolbar ‘Manage Indexes & Keys’ button
Add a new index
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