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Creating new solutions from spreadsheets - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 14 Essential Training
Creating new solutions from spreadsheets
- Certainly the quickest way to create a fully functional solution right out of the box is by using a starter solution. FileMaker ships with those starter solutions. However, if you want to convert data that you already have into a database, there's also a very quick way to do that as well. I'm gonna show you an example of that. And here we're gonna create a solution from a spreadsheet. If you go into your launch center, you'll see that there's a button down here in the bottom left-hand corner, that says New, and if we choose the option New From Existing, so that means we're gonna create a new solution from an existing file. And I'm gonna navigate over to a file that we can use. Let's say this customer file. It's a spreadsheet, and I'm pointing to a spreadsheet and there are other formats beside spreadsheets by the way, that are compatible for this type of technique. I can convert other FileMaker Pro Files, tab-delimited or comma-delimited text files, which are probably the most…
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