Part I. The Fundamentals
Keeping track of information is a challenge you face in every area of your life, and everything from a grocery list to an inventory of books or music, to a company annual report, is part of that challenge. For your information to be useful, you'll need ways to organize, store, retrieve and present it when needed. I assume that you're reading this book because you recognize that using automated and computer-driven data organizing tools such as FileMaker Pro offers you many advantages — once you've taken the time to gain an understanding of the fundamentals.
In this first part of the FileMaker Pro Bible, I offer you a broad introduction to the terms and concepts that you'll encounter when coming to grips with FileMaker Pro. As well as describing the ways computer database systems can help you to accomplish your goals, I highlight some of the special features and attributes FileMaker Pro offers — those things that set it apart from competing applications, including the support it provides for novice or lay users. Moreover, this part provides a survey of new features in FileMaker Pro 10 that will be of interest to readers who have used previous versions of the application.
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