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Using fast match and quick find

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Using fast match and quick find

- [Instructor] So, what if I told you there's a way that you can create found sets without even going into Find Mode. Now, certainly this would be the thing that would help you win bar bets if you're hanging out with a bunch of FileMaker developers, but there are actually some pretty neat ways that you can train your users on how to create found sets without the complication of Find Mode and find requests. So, the first way to do it is what's called Find Matching Records. This is something that can be found in the contextual menu. The contextual menu is a menu that you see when you click into a FileMaker field and either right click, as I'm doing, or holding down your Control key on Mac and clicking, and you'll see you have a bunch of different options here. The one that I'm talking about is Find Matching Records. I find myself using this all the time when I just want to find all the records from the same customer or the same year, whatever it is. In this case, let's say if we want to…

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