U.M. (Mac OS)

Working with information in records 4-3
Selecting a field for data entry
To work with data in a field, you first select the field. The boundaries of
a selected field are solid lines; boundaries of other fields are dotted lines.
Keep these points in mind:
1 You can’t press Tab to move to some fields (for example, calculation
and summary fields and fields omitted from the tab order) in Browse
mode. You must click in them to select them, as long as the fields
have been formatted to allow entry (by selecting Allow entry into field
in the Field Format dialog box in Layout mode). You can’t add data
to calculation and summary fields, but you can copy their contents to
other fields.
1 To change the order in which pressing Tab or Shift-Tab moves you
through the fields, see “Setting the tab order for data entry” on page
3-69.
Adding and duplicating records
You add records to a database by using the New Record and Duplicate
Record commands and then typing or pasting data into blank fields of the
record. If you specified entry options to enter values automatically, you
see those values entered in the record.
To Do this
Select a field for data entry Click in the field. FileMaker Pro scrolls if necessary to
display the field’s contents. FileMaker Pro extends a
field that’s filled beyond the border, if the field has no
scroll bar, until you move out of the field.
Move to the next field in the field
order
Press Tab.
Move to the previous field in the
field order
Press Shift-Tab.
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the or Help menu, and then type:
E entering data