The FileMaker Pro 9 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 9: 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 updated edition covers the latest timesaving features of FileMaker Pro, and includes downloadable tutorials to help you learn the all of topics covered. 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 9: The Missing Manual -- the book that should have been in the box.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Only FileMaker Tutorial You Need:
Cover to cover, info is completely relevant and exactly what you were hoping to learn. If you still don't have a clue how to function using FileMaker after reading this book, I'd find a new hobby if I were you.
Best Filemaker Pro Book Around!!!:
On my journey to create a relational database I realized the need for a teacher, a resource, and some inspiration. This book is awesome and provided all I needed. My Filemaker knowledge is growing every hour as a result of this book. In addition, my database is becoming more user-friendly, secure, and downright logical. Thank you, Filemaker Pro 9 Missing Manual, for being there for me in the summer of 2008.
Excellent reference:
This book does a good job of explaining the features of the product. It's clear and easy to use. Well recommended.
Excellent introduction to the Filemaker Software!:
FileMaker Pro 9 is one of the most intuitive and user-friendly database programs available. But, as with all database programs, it is capable of so much that it is practically impossible for the typical user to deduce all of its functionality simply by searching the program's multiple menus. Enter FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual - another edition of the Missing Manual series designed to enlighten non-technical persons on highly technical subjects. The main selling point of the series is that... more info
