FileMaker Pro 4 for Dummies [Paperback]

Tom Maremaa (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764502107 | ISBN-13: 978-0764502101 | Publication Date: November 3, 1997 | Edition: 1

A concise guide for beginners and intermediate users to the package which can be used on either Macintosh or Windows, for flat-file or relational, databases. New features of the latest version are described, covering the basics and more advanced features.

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About the Author

Tom Maremaa is an award-winning technical writer who has written about computers for at least 15 years. When not writing about the Macintosh operating system for Apple Computer, Tom enjoys reading the works of James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers); 1 edition (November 3, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764502107
• ISBN-13: 978-0764502101
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,720,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not very helpful, September 17, 1998

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Robert J. Levine (Princeton, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FileMaker Pro 4 for Dummies (Paperback)

Rather than deal with the program this book assumes one knows nothing about databases and spends most of the time on that subject. There are very few useful examples. If it were rewritten like many of the other dummies books with lots of useful examples, especially for people who know about data bases but not this program it might be worth buying. As it is I would not recomennd it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nicely organized and good backbone information, November 22, 1999

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Raymond Lau (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FileMaker Pro 4 for Dummies (Paperback)

This book was actually very good unlike most Dummy books. After powering through the less than helpful first 3 chapters, the rest of the book contained good basics on relational databases and file management.

If you're at all intimidated by Filemaker Pro 4.0 or any other relational databases, this is a good book to break the ice.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless., February 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: FileMaker Pro 4 for Dummies (Paperback)

The beauty of the original "Dummies" books was that they presented useful information in plain English -- with the bonus of a fun, irreverent tone. This author, unfortunately, has concentrated on tone (which he alone thinks is clever), at the expense of organization and helpful information. Many basics aren't even covered -- for example, how to add unique (not repeated) fields, how to set up pop-up menus. Yet he spends an inordinate amount of time non-Filemaker topics like the basics of organizing (which he didn't follow in the book) and why databases are useful (which the reader probably already knows, after spending $200 on the program). My opinion: not worth the paper it's printed on.