Installation and New Features Guide

Chapter 1
Before you begin
Welcome to your FileMaker
®
software. FileMaker is designed to help you
manage information easily and
effectively.
About this guide
This Installation and New Features Guide tells you how to install
FileMaker
Pro 9 or FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced on your Windows or
Mac
OS computer and introduces new features in the software.
Note This guide uses “FileMaker Pro” to refer to both FileMaker Pro and
FileMaker
Pro Advanced, unless describing specific
FileMaker
Pro Advanced features.
The FileMaker Pro User’s Guide provides essential information to get you
working productively right away. If you’ve never used FileMaker
Pro, work
through the FileMaker
Pro Tutorial to try out the major features. For details
and comprehensive, step-by-step procedures, see
FileMaker Pro Help.
The FileMaker Pro Advanced Development Guide describes additional
features available in FileMaker
Pro Advanced, including features such as
customizing menus; copying and importing tables; Database
Design Reports;
field, variable, and expression monitoring using the Data Viewer; and adding
tooltips.
Note When a feature or procedure is specific to a particular platform, you see
instructions and illustrations that are also specific to that platform. For features
or procedures that are similar on both platforms, you may see illustrations for
either Windows or the Mac
OS.
Registration and customer support
Please take a few moments to register your product during installation. By
registering your software, you may be eligible for upgrade offers and
other customer services. Follow the prompts to provide your registration,
product, and additional information.