The FileMaker Pro 10 desktop database lets you do almost anything with the information you give it -- especially with this book as your guide. Clear, thorough, and accessible, FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual helps you get in, build your database, and get the results you need, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's the ideal guide for non-technical and experienced folks alike. Each chapter in this fully updated edition covers the latest timesaving features of FileMaker Pro 10, including saved finds and a redesigned toolbar that reveals information and features more clearly than ever. You'll learn how to import information from the new Bento consumer database (Mac only), write scripts to make your database even easier to use, and send email without leaving FileMaker. With this book, you will:

• Get your first database running in minutes and perform basic tasks right away

• Catalog people, processes, and things with streamlined data entry and sorting tools

• Use your data to generate reports, correspondence, and other documents with ease

• Create, connect, and manage multiple tables and set up complex relationships that display just the data you need

• Crunch numbers, search text, or pin down dates and times with dozens of built-in formulas

• Outfit your database for the Web, and import and export data to other formats

You'll also get objective advice on which features are really useful, and which aren't. To make the most of this database, you need FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual -- the book that should have been in the box.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 35 Ratings

Almost perfect - 2010-04-03
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Turns out what I needed most was a really good explanation and examples of JOIN TABLES. It seems that the real power of Filemaker just might reside in unlocking this mystery. And it remains a mystery.

Developers beware! - 2010-03-22
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Verbose and time-consuming. Definitely not for those who want to get up and running quickly. Better for the casual (maybe retired) user who has the time to wade through all the superfluous, annoying detail.

Excellent -- like the others in series - 2010-02-25
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Super overview of Filemaker -- from the basics to the more advanced. I find it -- like others in the Pogue series -- invaluable. Keep it up !!

very useful - 2010-02-23
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although i haven't delved completely into this book, so far it has helped me do everything that i have asked of it. very well organized and easy to use.

The closest thing to a teacher - 2010-02-08
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I'm no good in using words, especially if they're in English.
But I really wanted to say that this book is more than just a manual. And although it of course can't stand for a human teacher, it's really close to that.

I was recently charged by the company I work for to develop a new DataBase in order to replace the simple Excel file storing all our contacts. In brief, the new DB should have been able to manage companies, addresses and people as well as every future promotional material dispatch.

I never heard about FileMaker before but the charge was to develop the DB using this platform. So I went out to buy a manual and came back with this promising book. I have to say I had a little experience with MS Access some time ago, but also have to precise that while the logic beneath is quite the same, the way the two DB apply it, it's really different.

Well, to make it short, I found this book outstanding. I found in it almost every single doubt coming up to my mind. And in the rare occasions I couldn't find it, it taught the logic beneath every function so well that I could come out with a solution just thinking about it for a while.

I don't want to compare this book to others, as I haven't read any of them (only one in Italian). But as far as I can say, this book will really teach you how FileMaker thinks and acts. As the title plays, the closest thing to a teacher I could imagine.

PS: The DB can now do every single thing it was planned to as well as manage the accounts and keep an archive of every single job that has been made for whatever customer

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