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Exploring the interface - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 13 Essential Training
Exploring the interface
Once you've got FileMaker installed and taken a quick look at the preferences, it's time to start working within the application. The first step to understanding how to work with FileMaker is take a look at the interface and the different modes that FileMaker uses. So for this video I'm going to give you a quick tour of all these so that you understand what we call everything within the FileMaker interface. So first, within FileMaker, You'll notice that on top of the screen, that we've got something here called the status toolbar. So you'll notice that this is an area where you can manage different records that you've got in your database, and we'll look these in the various different movies that we've got later in this title. But most specifically, when we talk about searching for groups of records. You'll notice that you've got the new record button, which allows you to create new records, the delete record button, allows you to remove those records. And even the ability to initiate…
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