Using the exercise files

If you're a Premium Member of the lynda.com online training library, or if you're watching this tutorial on a DVD-ROM, then you'll have access to the exercise files that I am using throughout the title. Now the way that the exercise files are laid out is that they all come in a folder called exercise files. When you open that folder you'll see that every chapter in the title has its own subfolder, within each chapter folder are folders for each one of the movies. So for example, if you're watching a movie in chapter 1, movie number 4 you'll go to the 01_04 folder and double-click on the exercise with the similar name.

Each of the movies have its own dedicated FileMaker file so that you can start from any point in the title. We are going to be creating an invoicing database file from scratch. So in the early chapters of the title we will be building the file along with each movie in the order that a database should be built and in the later movies in the title we will be using that same file to add more specific features and data to the exercise files as they pertain to each topic that we are talking about. So if you're a Monthly subscriber or an Annual subscriber to lynda.com, you won't have access to the exercise files, but you can easily follow along from scratch or even on your own files.

So let's go ahead and get started.