U.M. (Mac OS)
Table Of Contents
- Preface: Getting help
- Chapter 1: FileMakerPro basics
- Chapter 2: Creating a database file
- Chapter 3: Laying out and arranging information
- Understanding layouts
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- Working with predefined layout types
- Arranging records in columns
- Managing layouts
- Working with layout parts
- Changing layout parts
- Working with all object types
- Working with graphic objects
- Working with fields in a layout
- Adding fields to a layout
- Adding merge fields
- Deleting a field from a layout
- Defining display formats for fields
- Determining data entry in fields
- Setting the tab order for data entry
- Adding scroll bars to fields
- Formatting repeating fields
- Adding borders, fill, and baselines to fields
- Defining value lists
- Formatting fields with value lists
- Working with text
- Chapter 4: Working with information in records
- Working in Browse mode
- Adding data to a file
- Selecting a field for data entry
- Adding and duplicating records
- Entering and changing data in fields
- Working with container fields
- Entering data from a value list
- Viewing and inserting data from another source
- Copying and moving values and records
- Using drag and drop to move information
- Replacing field values
- Working with records
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- Finding information
- Deleting records
- Sorting records
- Chapter 5: Using ScriptMaker and buttons
- Chapter 6: Previewing and printing information
- Chapter 7: Networking and access privileges
- Chapter 8: Importing and exporting data
- Chapter 9: Customizing FileMakerPro
- Chapter 10: Using data from related files
- Chapter 11: Publishing files on the Web
- About the World Wide Web
- About FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Publishing your database on the Web—an overview
- Getting ready to publish your files on the Web
- Setting up FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Configuring FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Setting up Instant Web Publishing
- Database security
- Helping Web users find your database
- Custom Web Publishing
- Appendix A: Recovering damaged files
- Appendix B: Working with international files
- Appendix C: Summary of functions
- Index
Getting help XV
Using the Help contents
When you open FileMaker Pro Help, you see a list of Help topics, like
the table of contents in a book. You can click topic titles to see any
subtopics, and then click a topic to move to the information you need.
Arrange windows for easy
access
On a small screen, move the FileMaker Pro document window
and the Help window so the corners overlap. Then you can click
a corner to bring a window into view.
On a larger screen, arrange the windows side by side.
Switch between the Help
window and a
FileMaker Pro file window
Click the window you want to work with.
Close FileMaker Pro Help
and leave it running
Click the close box in the upper-left corner of the window.
FileMaker Help Viewer continues to run in the background. To
show Help again, click a FileMaker Pro window, and then press
2-?.
Hide FileMaker Pro Help
and leave it running
Click a Help window, and then choose Hide QuickHelp 4.0 from the
application menu (at the right of the menu bar). To show Help
again, choose Show All from the application menu.
Quit FileMaker Pro Help
and the FileMaker Help
Viewer application
Click the Help window to make it active, and then choose Quit
from the File menu.
To Do this