FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide has been completely updated to cover features and functions new to FileMaker 5, including the ground-breaking Instant Web Publishing capabilities that allow users to automatically render database layouts on their intranet, and a totally new interface that complements the look and feel of Microsoft Office. It's as useful to beginners, who require a tutorial approach to help them get up to speed, as it is to more intermediate users, who want a reference guide for looking up what they need to know when they need to know it. FileMaker Pro 5 offers the easiest way for Mac and Windows users to create, share, and manage information and projects with colleagues across the hall or over the intranet or on the Web. This powerful, flexible tool is ideal for everything from transforming Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into databases in just seconds to operating a retail business on the Web using built-in CGI tools.
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In FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Nolan Hester holds forth on a fantastic database tool. Covering the Windows and Mac OS versions of FileMaker clearly and in equal measure, Hester shows you how to solve database problems large and small. He's particularly in depth on how to use FileMaker's networking features (which allow you to share a database among Windows and Mac users) and Web Companion (which you can use to run the back end of dynamic, searchable Web resources such as catalogs and directories). Scripting and templates get coverage too.
In case you haven't experienced the Visual QuickStart Guide presentation style, you're in for a treat. It's highly graphical, but the designers take care to present many tightly focused images, rather than lots of big full-screen pictures. The idea is that you can read along with Hester's procedures and see the steps illustrated nearby. If you're told to choose options in a dialog box, for example, a picture of the relevant box appears adjacent to the text. It's therefore easy to avoid getting lost. --David Wall
Topics covered: Using FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows and Mac OS, including entering data, searching, sorting, reporting, and printing. Database design gets coverage, including field types, validation, formulas, relational structures, and networking and Web integration.
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FileMaker is a popular, flexible, and powerful tool that makes people more productive and saves them hours of grunt work. So is Peachpit's FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. Whether you're new to FileMaker, upgrading to version 5, or a Web developer looking for a simple way to serve databases, this book will have you up and running in no time.
In the tradition of Peachpit's other Visual QuickStart Guides, FileMaker Pro 5: VQS is loaded with screenshots and clear, concise explanations of critical database publishing tasks. Start with basics like working with records and files, and move on to more advanced tasks such as creating and designing databases. Or, use the handy tabbed format to page straight to the specific topics that interest you, such as printing and networking or Web publishing with FileMaker.
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Nolan Hester's latest book is Photoshop Lightroom 3: Visual QuickStart Guide (ISBN: 0-321-71310-9). Follow the book's blog at: http://lightroom.waywest.net
Nolan has written more than two dozen books for Peachpit Press, focusing on digital photography and Web site creation. He's also has worked as a darkroom technician, ad studio assistant, and photojournalist. His photos have appeared online and in print for a variety of outlets, including ZesterDaily.com, Alaska magazine, and The Los Angeles Times travel section.
His landscape, travel, and Web photography have inspired many of the timesaving tips and techniques found in his Lightroom 3 VQS. Like every photographer, Nolan truly believes he'll eventually find the perfect camera bag.
Nolan has written more than two dozen books for Peachpit Press, focusing on digital photography and Web site creation. He's also has worked as a darkroom technician, ad studio assistant, and photojournalist. His photos have appeared online and in print for a variety of outlets, including ZesterDaily.com, Alaska magazine, and The Los Angeles Times travel section.
His landscape, travel, and Web photography have inspired many of the timesaving tips and techniques found in his Lightroom 3 VQS. Like every photographer, Nolan truly believes he'll eventually find the perfect camera bag.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Save your money. It's all in the manual.,
By Douglass Parker (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
Since I am a Filemaker beginner, I wanted a book to get me up to speed quickly. Filemaker comes with two manuals, a "Getting Started" guide and a "User's Guide". They are pretty good, but I was in a hurry and hoped that the Visual Quickstart Guide would live up to its title. Regretfully, the Visual Quickstart Guide merely rehashes the same information that is available in the User Guide. In most cases, I found the User Guide's explanations to be clearer than those in this book. The author seems to have forgotten a basic principle - a book on a software product must add value to the product's included documentation. I found Visual Quickstart guide to be worthless in that regard. Eventually, I gave up on it and simply used Filemaker's manuals.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
the software does come with a manual - reads a lot like this,
This review is from: FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
i have to agree with the reviewer who said all of the info in this books is in the manual.the filemaker pro manual is an easy read and comes with the software. if you have it, read it and keep your $20 in your pocket. if you are looking for detailed information not covered in the manual, you will not find it here. the only place i have found any substantial filemaker pro information so far is scriptology, filemaker pro demystified by matt petrowsky and john osborne - an EXCELLENT filemaker pro book, something this visual quick start guide is not.
4.0 out of 5 stars
It is fast and easy!,
By A Customer
This review is from: FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
I really enjoyed refreshing my skills with this book. It really saved me in a pinch. Nolan Hester was also available for questions via email which further enhanced the clarity of the book. I brought it with me everywhere and each topic could be grasped in a matter of 2-3 minutes. Thought it was great!
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