User manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Welcome to Bento
- Overview of Bento
- Using Libraries
- Using the Address Book and iCal Libraries
- Using Collections
- Using Form View
- About Forms
- Creating Records in Form View
- Editing Records in Form View
- Duplicating Records in Form View
- Deleting Records in Form View
- Creating Forms
- Deleting Forms
- Adding Fields to a Form
- Moving Between Fields
- Moving Fields and Objects on Forms
- Resizing Fields and Objects
- Deleting Fields from a Form
- Duplicating Forms
- Renaming Forms
- Customizing Form Layouts
- Using Table View
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Index
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Preface
Welcome to Bento
Bento™ software helps you organize your information,
providing the power of a database without complexity.
Bento is an easy-to-use database that manages contacts, tasks, and other information
that is important to you. Because Bento is a database, you can create data
relationships and view your data in more ways than you can in a spreadsheet.
Bento was designed for Mac OS. The Bento window has features that will seem
familiar to you if you use Address Book, iCal, Keynote, or iTunes.
Bringing It All Together
Bento brings your important information together in one place to help you get
organized. You’ll be able to manage your contacts, coordinate events, track projects,
prioritize tasks, and more.
For example, say you are running a travel club, and you are planning events for the
club. You have the contact information for the travel club members in Address Book,
and you have a few events on the calendar in iCal. But you are also using a
spreadsheet to track some expenses for each of the members of the travel club. You
can use Bento to manage all information in one place.