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 # Add a data connection in PowerApps
-In PowerApps, add a data connection to an existing app or to an app that you're building from scratch. In this topic, you use PowerApps Studio, but you can also use [powerapps.com](https://web.powerapps.com), as the [Manage connections](add-manage-connections.md) topic describes.
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-Your app's data connection can connect to SharePoint, Salesforce, OneDrive, or [one of many other data sources](connections-list.md).
+In PowerApps, add a data connection to an existing app or to an app that you're building from scratch. Your app can connect to SharePoint, Salesforce, OneDrive, or [many other data sources](connections-list.md).
 
 Your [next step](#next-steps) after this article is to display and manage data from that data source in your app, as in these examples:
 
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 * Connect to SQL Server, and update a table from your app.
 
 ## Prerequisites
-[Sign up](../signup-for-powerapps.md) for PowerApps, [install](http://aka.ms/powerappsinstall) it, open it, and then sign in by providing the same credentials that you used to sign up.
-
-## Background on data connections
-Most PowerApps apps use external information called **Data Sources** that is stored in cloud services. A common example is a table in an Excel file stored in OneDrive for Business. Apps are able to access these data sources by using **Connectors**.
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-The most common data sources are tables, which you can use to retrieve and store information. You can use connectors to data sources to read and write data in Microsoft Excel workbooks, SharePoint lists, SQL tables, and many other formats, which can be stored in cloud services such as OneDrive for Business, DropBox, SQL Server, etc.
-
-Data sources other than tables include email, calendars, Twitter, and notifications.
-
-Using the **[Gallery](controls/control-gallery.md)**, **[Display form](controls/control-form-detail.md)**, and **[Edit form](controls/control-form-detail.md)** controls, it's easy to create an app that reads and writes data from a data source. To get started, read the article [Understand data forms](working-with-forms.md).
-
-## Add a connection
-1. Click or tap **New** on the **File** menu (near the left edge).
+[Sign up](../signup-for-powerapps.md) for PowerApps, and then [sign in](http://web.powerapps.com) by providing the same credentials that you used to sign up.
 
-    ![New option on the File menu](./media/add-data-connection/file-new.png)
+## Add a data source
+1. On the **Home** tab, hover over the **Start from blank** tile, and then select **Make this app.**
 
-2. On the **Blank app** tile, click or tap **Phone layout** .
+    ![Create an app from scratch](./media/add-data-connection/blank-app-tile.png)
 
-    ![Create an app from scratch](./media/add-data-connection/blank-app.png)
+1. If the **Welcome to PowerApps Studio** dialog box appears, select **Skip**.
 
 3. In the center pane, click or tap **connect to data**.
 
-4. If the list of connections in the **Data** pane includes the one that you want, click or tap it to add it to the app. Otherwise, skip to the next step.
+4. If the list of connections in the **Data** pane includes the one that you want, select it to add it to the app. Otherwise, skip to the next step.
 
     ![Add data source](./media/add-data-connection/choose-existing-connections.png)
 
-5. Click or tap **New connection** to display a list of connectors.
+5. Select **New connection** to display a list of connectors.
 
     ![Add connection](./media/add-data-connection/new-connection.png)
 
-6. Scroll through the list of connectors until the type of connection that you want to create appears (for example, **Office 365 Outlook**), and then click or tap it.
+6. Scroll through the list of connectors until the type of connection that you want to create appears (for example, **Office 365 Outlook**), and then select it.
 
     ![Choose connection](./media/add-data-connection/choose-connection.png)
 
-7. Click or tap **Create** to both create the connection and add it to your app.
+7. Select **Create** to both create the connection and add it to your app.
 
-    Some connectors, such as **Microsoft Translator**, require no additional steps, and you can show data from them immediately. Other connectors prompt you to provide credentials, specify a particular set of data, or perform other steps. For example, [SharePoint](connections/connection-sharepoint-online.md) and [SQL Server](connections/connection-azure-sqldatabase.md) require additional information before you can use them.
+    Some connectors, such as **Office 365 Outlook**, require no additional steps, and you can show data from them immediately. Other connectors prompt you to provide credentials, specify a particular set of data, or perform other steps. For example, [SharePoint](connections/connection-sharepoint-online.md) and [SQL Server](connections/connection-azure-sqldatabase.md) require additional information before you can use them.
 
-## View or change a data source
-If you're updating an app, you might need to identify or change the source of data that appears in a gallery, a form, or another control that has an **Item** property. For example, you might be working on an app that someone else created, or you might want to remind yourself of a data source that you configured a while ago.
+## Add another data source
+1. Add a control to which you want to add a data source.
 
-1. Select the control for which you want to identify the data source.
+    The control must have an **Items** property, as galleries and listboxes do, or an **Item** property, as a form does.
+
+1. In the **Data** pane (which opens automatically), open the list under **Data source**, and then select **Add a data source**.
+
+1. Follow the previous procedure, starting with step 4.
+
+## Identify or change a data source
+If you're updating an app, you might need to identify or change the source of data that appears in a gallery, a form, or another control. For example, you might need to identify a data source as you update an app that someone else created or you that you created long ago.
+
+1. Select the control for which you want to identify or change the data source.
 
     For example, select a gallery (not a control within the gallery) by clicking or tapping it in the hierarchical list of screens and controls near the left edge.
 
     The name of the data source appears on the **Properties** tab of the right-hand pane.
 
-    ![Data source on Properties tab](./media/add-data-connection/properties-tab.png)
-
-2. To show more information about the data source or change it, click or tap **Data** in the right-hand pane.
+2. Select the data source to change it or to show more information about it.
 
     ![Data pane](./media/add-data-connection/data-pane.png)
 
-3. To change the data source, click or tap the down arrow next to the data source, and then choose or create another source.
+3. To change the data source, open the list of data sources, and then select or create another source.
+
+     ![Data pane](./media/add-data-connection/datasource-list.png)
 
 ## Next steps
 * To show and update data in a source such as Excel, SharePoint, or SQL Server, [add a gallery](add-gallery.md), and [add a form](add-form.md).