FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual

This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker's power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, the FileMaker Pro 11 database helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your entire business. FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual helps you get started, build your database, and produce results, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's a thorough, accessible guide for new, non-technical users, as well as those with more experience.

• Start up: Get your first database up and running in minutes
• Catalog your data: Organize contacts, to-do items, and product information with speedy data-entry and sorting tools
• Create professional documents: Publish reports, invoices, and more, with ease
• Add visual power and clarity: Create colorful charts to illustrate and summarize your data
• Harness processing power: Crunch numbers and search text with dozens of built-in formulas
• Learn advanced topics: Explore the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced and FileMaker Server

This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker's power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, the FileMaker Pro 11 database helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your entire business. FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual helps you get started, build your database, and produce results, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's a thorough, accessible guide for new, non-technical users, as well as those with more experience.

• Start up: Get your first database up and running in minutes
• Catalog your data: Organize contacts, to-do items, and product information with speedy data-entry and sorting tools
• Create professional documents: Publish reports, invoices, and more, with ease
• Add visual power and clarity: Create colorful charts to illustrate and summarize your data
• Harness processing power: Crunch numbers and search text with dozens of built-in formulas
• Learn advanced topics: Explore the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced and FileMaker Server

Susan Prosser is a reformed journalist who's stopped trying to bring information to the people and now helps them manage the data they already have. Susan has developed FileMaker databases for 12 years, but returns to her roots by training and writing curriculum for other developers.

Stuart Gripman is the founder of Crooked Arm Corp, a full-service FileMaker Pro consulting and development firm based in Berkeley, California. A FileMaker Certified Developer, he has written for both Macworld and MacLife.