Learn Filemaker Pro 5.0

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Summary: It works
Review: A friend of mine read this book cover to cover, and made a $15,000 program for a company.

This book can make you a LOT of money.

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Summary: Seniors can understand this book
Review: FileMaker Pro 5.0 is a very powerful program. As a 75 year old retiree, I will never use FileMaker to its maximum power. I am finding this book helpful to organize my personal financial life, and to inventory my household goods, books I own, have read, and want to read. Using this book has helped me make sense of the program. The INDEX is the MOST helpful thing to me. I need to look things up frequently since I don't use the program all day everyday in a business setting. Many books have lots of information, but you can't find the particular information you need because you don't know how to find it in the index. This index lists things in different ways to accommodate the search. Thank you, Jonathan Stars!

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Summary: Seniors can understand this book
Review: FileMaker Pro 5.0 is a very powerful program. As a 75 year old retiree, I will never use FileMaker to its maximum power. I am finding this book helpful to organize my personal financial life, and to inventory my household goods, books I own, have read, and want to read. Using this book has helped me make sense of the program. The INDEX is the MOST helpful thing to me. I need to look things up frequently since I don't use the program all day everyday in a business setting. Many books have lots of information, but you can't find the particular information you need because you don't know how to find it in the index. This index lists things in different ways to accommodate the search. Thank you, Jonathan Stars!

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Summary: Learn FileMaker Pro 5.0 - the *easy* way.
Review: Jonathan takes you from the beginning, and has you do increasingly more difficult tasks with FileMaker Pro 5. You'll learn from his mistakes and yours. If you like tutorials or find the User Guide too "light" on examples, you should try this book. If you like to scan for examples because you know what you need to do but not how, you will find this helpful, too.

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Summary: Building Relationships
Review: Most software books seem to be written by people who not only love the software, but also assume that everyone else is equally fascinated by it. They write for the informed audience; they write for themselves. This book is different.

It was written both for people who are new to FileMaker Pro and those who are more familiar with it. Jonathan Stars writes in a clear and interesting way, and he explains his terms and his instructions so that even someone who has no prior experience with FileMaker Pro can understand.

Stars promises that FileMaker Pro is "user friendly." It is, but it's even friendlier because of this text. I followed his instructions in the early chapters to build my first database, and now I refer to the book when I need answers to more advanced questions. The text helped me get up-to-speed quickly and painlessly. His index is the greatest help of all.

I love FileMaker Pro now, and the better I get at using FileMaker Pro, the more I value this book. It is a wonderful resource.

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Summary: It's just too simple
Review: Ok, I am not the smartest person in the world and getting information into my head would be better achieved with a book & a pile driver. For any who interested in Filemaker 5, I cannot recommend this book enough. It is almost like Johnathan is sitting with you as you read it.The examples are not too complicated and in a very easy & relaxed way you begin to understand what Filemaker is all about and Johnathan's passion for the programme.I just hope there is a more advanced edition in the pipe lines

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Summary: easy to follow and the examples are great
Review: One word to describe this book, great, this is on easy to read book on FileMaker Pro.

The author took his time to produce a book that will allow the reader to build a FileMaker database from start to finish.

The chapters on creating reports and scripts were the best, giving the user the know how to create complex reports and scripts without getting lost in jargon.

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Summary: Not useful for intermediate business needs
Review: Perhaps this book, written as an extended tutorial, would be useful to absolute beginners or to people who have pretty basic needs. Because it's written as an extended tutorial, it's incredibly tedious, and you're forced to read every word of the prose to get info, and then, it's often not applicable to a broad range of purposes. If you feel relatively confident in this kind of software, I'd recommend going with more of a reference manual (I'll be looking for one next). Especially, if you're a fast learner and are looking to build quickly.

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Summary: Very disappointed
Review: Upon reading the excellent recommendations of this book, I bought this book via United States-Canada-Mexico. I had a big disappointment upon reading it since does not offer nothing new with respect to the help included in the system. If you do not has neither idea of as operates Filemaker, I recommend you that opt for reading the help of the system... it will be saved some money.