Making FileMaker Pro Your Office Companion
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Sharing Data between FileMaker Pro and Microsoft Excel
Strengths of Excel Strengths of FileMaker Pro
• Storing and analyzing data in lists
• Analyzing and modeling data
• Producing charts and graphs
• Building a nancial model
• Creating basic reports
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Viewing information in list, form, or table
view
• Storing and managing virtually any type of
information (words, images, numbers, files)
• Creating and publishing customized forms
and reports
• Connecting related information such as
inventory and sales
• Access by multiple people at the same
time
If you’re using Excel to manage your data, you may think you have all the information
management you need. Think again. You can instantly transform your Excel
spreadsheets into rich, powerful solutions that you can customize to suit your needs:
4Performing searches
4Printing professional quality reports
4Importing and storing images, video, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, etc.
4Tracking projects, contacts, inventory
4Publishing information to the web
4Sharing data across a workgroup regardless of platform
With FileMaker Pro, you can instantly transform your Excel spreadsheets into richer,
more powerful database solutions that let you perform searches, sort data, import
images, create reports, add links, resize columns, and more – by simply dragging and
dropping your Excel spreadsheets into FileMaker Pro. It really is just that simple.
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There’s no need to re-enter the information you have stored in Excel or any other
spreadsheet. You can easily import your information following these simple steps.