Recent Articles From EvanCarmichael.com http://www.evancarmichael.com/ http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/The-Training-Routine.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/The-Training-Routine.html How to speed up response to support issues and reduce costs at the same time. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/HELP.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/HELP.html This article is intended to give initial help for the more common problems that one might encounter with a FileMaker based database. On the whole they are very stable, but, as with anything, problems do occur. When they do, they may be resolved by reading one or more of the following below. For more detailed help, visit FileMaker at www.filemaker.com or contact FileMaker on one of the support numbers given with your product. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Art-in-the-Corporate-Environment.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Art-in-the-Corporate-Environment.html I want to take up the subject of presentations and hope to pass on some of our hard won and often challenged, expertise in this area! This is kicked off with the help of Stuart Price whose article in an old old edition of the MacUser subscribers newsletter, ‘MacUser 2’, took the words right out of our mouths back in 1997 when we first saw it. Well done Mr Price, all these years later your article is still valid! Perhaps that’s not such a good thing, but we’ll take it up now anyway! So with the very kind permission of the wonderful MacUser (leading Mac Magazine), it’s equally wonderful editor, Karen Harvey and the no less wonderful writer himself Stuart Price, we are including here the very same article. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/What-I-Really-Want-Is.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/What-I-Really-Want-Is.html How to spec to your requirements for a database http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Digital-Printing.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Digital-Printing.html Printing is a term that we are all familiar with. Any one of you could show me something that had been printed, and if it had not come out of a desktop printer or photocopier it probably would have been done on a traditional printing press. There is, however, with the advancement of technology, a new method which can replace traditional lithographic printing and it is becoming increasingly popular for smaller quantities. It is called Digital Printing. In order that both areas are fully understood we have explained the traditional process below and have invited Robert Robinson- Woledge from Management Graphics in Reading to tell us about the benefits of Digital Printing as an alternative http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Presenting-Presentations.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Presenting-Presentations.html So, You want presentations to look good? And what's wrong with blue backgrounds anyway?... http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Lovely-Layouts-and-Ripping-Reports.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Lovely-Layouts-and-Ripping-Reports.html So, you know how to use FileMaker's 'Find' mode to get the sets of data you need, but now what? Accounts want the data as an alphabetical list, Security want it as a set of badges, the boss wants a report for a management document, your secretary needs labels for envelopes, and so on. FileMaker can display your data in many ways. In this article, we look at how to Create and Sort reports ‘on the fly’ and how to add scripts to buttons. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/FIND-The-power-of-your-database.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/FIND-The-power-of-your-database.html A FileMaker database is an excellent place for storing mountains of information. But what about when you want to get it out again? What’s more - how do you accomplish that quickly and efficiently - and preferably all in one hit? In this article we will show you just how you can pull out even obscure sets of data, and make sure your data and your FileMaker database is really working for you... http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Computer-Love.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Technology/1154/Computer-Love.html Feeling a little overwhelmed with all of this technology? Read on to see if you can conquer the minefield of data that impresses itself upon us with it's day to day onslaught!