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
XVI FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Using the Help window
To navigate in the Help system, you click buttons and underlined text in
the Help window.
Click solid underlined text to jump to a topic related to the current topic.
To return to any topic you viewed during a help session, choose History
Window from the Options menu, and then double-click the topic title.
Using the Help index
FileMaker Pro Help comes with a list of index entries, which are
significant words and phrases (called keywords), to help you find the
topics containing the information you want. Each index entry is
associated with one or more topics.
This user’s guide gives you keywords throughout the documentation to
help you find related topics by their index entries in Help.
Displays the title of the
current topic
Drag the note icon
into a topic and type
your own notes
Click to see the index
Type a word
you want to
find in the
Index and
press Return
Click to move to
the next or
previous topic
Click to return to the last topic viewed
Click to return to the
Help contents
Click solid
underlined text to
jump to a topic
related to the
current topic
Click dotted
underlined text to
see a definition