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Let's get started with FileMaker. When you first launch the application you are likely to see this dialogue, reason I say you are likely to see this dialogue it's because you can control whether or not it is shown when you launch the application. This checkbox lets you choose whether or not to shown. Now as we proceed through this tutorial , you will see screens that I am using that may or may not be the same as the ones that you see in your own version of FileMaker. What I am doing at the beginning of this tutorial is that I am starting from the version of FileMaker that ship in United States. So the preference are set the way they will be set for a version of FileMaker that you are unpacked in United States. Preference is in other areas of world may be set slightly differently and as we proceed through the tutorial I am going to be changing preferences and as you start using FileMaker you may be changing preferences. So gradually over time each of us will be modifying the way in which FileMaker looks on our own computers. So there will be some minor differences. Don't worry about them because they are not significant and I point them out as we along with the relevant. Now when you launch FileMaker for the very first time this options open and existing file is not going to be there. It is only going to be there after you create the database. So what you're seeing now is the basic dialogue that appears most of the time when you launch FileMaker. If this dialogue is not shown you can open this at any time by choosing new database from the file menu. Now let me point out to you that in many cases the new command in the file menu has a keyboard equivalent with letter "N" that is not true, the letter "N" as a keyboard equivalent does not create a new database FileMaker. Rather it creates a new record in the existing database the reason I can't create new record now the reason is quite out because I don't have a database up. So let's come over here and choose new database which I can do at any point or I can do it when I launch the application if I am showing this dialogue. Now over here we have a variety of templates for starters solutions and starter's solutions may be all that you need. I can click on contact management for example and look at the information for a template . I can choose any of the templates, and find information about them as I browse through the templates clicking on them notice how the information changes and notice that as I chosen a template I see a little bit about the template and I have a button over here new database which will create a new database based on this template. The reason I know its button is because it this distinctive curved edge and because as I move the pointer over it it changes to a pointing finger and I know I can click on it to do something. Now in the brief overview of FileMaker in the beginning of this tutorial I showed you a little bit something about FileMaker windows. I showed you that I can zoom in or out on a FileMaker window. I showed you that I can change the four modes the browse modes which let's me view and enter data, find mode which lets me search data, layout which let's me design the database, and preview which let's me look at the database as it will be printed. I can also choose to show or hide the status area at the left of the window. But the reason why I am pointing this out to you is that because I am seeing this buttons down here I can tell that the template information is infact a FileMaker database. When I come up here to the define database command I can see the fields in the template information database, I can see the tables, I can see a relationship there. Now at the very end of this tutorial what we are going to do is come back and look at the details of template information database because it has a number of features you might want to use for example you can put a list of variety piece of information here as you click on them you will the information changes and I can put a hot button here to do something with the information. Template information is a lot of very simple but powerful features that you may want to use in your own applications. So I am going to close the template information come back here create a new database and I can create a new empty file we also come back to this later in the tutorial because creating a new empty file is perhaps the most daunting experience. You are starting from scratch most people get started with the FileMaker using a template for one of the starter solutions and infact with the template you can get to work right away you can enter data sorted, printed find it and indeed that maybe you all needed to do. You maybe slightly customize the template or you can just run with it. Templates are in a variety of areas and some templates appear in more than one area. Contact management for example appears in home in education and under business, people and assets. I am going start by creating a contact management database and then we will take a look what the interface looks like. So to create the contact management database I select the template I am interested in click ok provide a location for the database and now the database is created let's move on to take a look at the interface.