1.6. Navigating Your Database

As exciting as it is to enter data into a database—well, the first time anyway—chances are you'll want to look at those records again at some point. In fact, some may say that's the whole point of building a database. But first, you need to learn how to navigate the records in the database, which this section explains. Fortunately, moving around a database isn't nearly as tough as following maps and highway signs in a foreign country. FileMaker makes it easy to skip from one record to the next, all the while keeping you abreast of where you are.

Tip:

As you go through this section on navigating, it helps to have a database open in front of you so you can follow along and try some of these techniques. Since you probably don't have many records in the Contact Management database you just created, there's a sample one for you to download on the "Missing CD" page at www.missingmanuals.com/cds.