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[00:00:00.0] FileMaker has four modes in which you can manipulate the program. We've already introduced you to Browse mode, which allows you to do data entry, adding records, editing fields, and so on. But there are three other modes, and you're going to be working with these modes a lot. And the way you change between the different modes is by using the View menu. And the first four items are your different modes. You can see there's a check mark right next to Browse mode, meaning you're in Browse mode. There's also Find, Layout, and Preview. Now, you're going to be moving between these different modes a lot. If you're developing a solution all day long, you'll do it hundreds of times. So to make it more efficient, you might want to remember each one of these keyboard commands so you don't have to grab the mouse when you're working with it. So you have Command or Control B for Browse mode, you have Command or Control F for Find mode, you have Command or Control L for Layout mode, those ones are easy. Preview mode's a little different. Command P is reserved for print, so you have to use Command or Control U. So what we're going to do is we're going to switch to Find mode. Now Find mode is how you essentially change your found sets. I want to find everybody who has a last name of Osbourne. I want to find everybody in the state of California. Those are the things you can do here. It looks a lot like Browse mode, I mean you have all the same fields here. It's just that you're working with Find Requests now. And you can see that change over in the status area. You see that is says Request here, not Record, and you don't see the icon here for going between your records right now because you're in Find mode. And you can add multiple requests, which are kind of like records, although they're not permanently stored like records are, and that will make these icons for the Rolodex show up. But realize that you're in Find mode, and you don't want to mix up the two modes, Browse and Find mode, they look a lot the same. You really want to be conscious of this status area and how it changes. So you have the word Request here, you have this Omit button, symbols, there's a little pop up menu we'll go over later, there's a Find button here. So be aware of all these things that are going on. Look at what's happening here and be aware, and that way we won't mess it up, because if you enter data into Find mode thinking it was Browse mode and then close your database, all that data's gone, it's entered into Find mode, and that's not stored permanently. Now you can also switch modes through these icons right here. So here's what's called Layout mode. So if we click on it, you'll notice that now it changes to Layout mode here, it says Layout down here, and under the view menu, there's a check mark next to Layout mode. Now Layout mode is where you rearrange your interface. You can move a field; you can delete a field, not permanently, just off the layout. To permanently delete a field you have to go to Define Database. We can put colors on here, background colors; we can draw rectangles, and circles, and put on portals, which we'll cover later, and add fields and parts, and all this stuff in the status area allows you to manipulate what it looks like inside of Layout mode, which translates, actually, into Browse mode. Whatever you do here translates directly into Browse mode, and we'll cover that later. Now your last mode is Preview mode. If we go ahead and select Preview mode, which you can do down here as well, then what you're looking at is FileMaker's interpretation of what it's going to print out like. And so what FileMaker tries to do is print as many records per page as possible. So see here there's one record right here, and then there's another record. And because it can't fit completely on the rest of the page, well, there's another page down here where we'll see the third record, and so on. So it tries to fit as many records per page as possible, and so that indication that we're viewing pages right now, what might print out, it now changes the word Page here. And you can actually work with this as well, you can type in a page number. Once you hit the Return or Enter key it moves to that page. You can walk through them manually like this and go through page by page. And you'll also notice that the total has a question mark, well FileMaker calculates each page as you go to it for speed reasons. So if you want to see how many pages you have, you have to scroll all the way to the end, and now you see there's 21 total pages. So you'll also want to notice that there are different menu items, or menus when you're in each mode. Certainly the status area is very obvious, it changes, right? And you see this change over here. But you also need to realize that the menus change. Now in this case, you still have a records menu, but a lot of the items are dimmed out in Preview mode because you can't do them, you can't create a new record on a page. You can sort the records if you want, but you can't do any of these other things. So realize that these change, and other menus change as well. You obviously can't apply formatting to a field in Preview mode because you don't have access to the fields. So you want to be aware and be very critical of what's going on, and the more critical of what's going on and more aware of what's going on that you are, the more you're going to be able to work with FileMaker to be able to make it a habit, so you know whatever's going on. So let's try going to Layout mode. And look, we have a Layouts menu with different things you can do under the menus specific to that mode, specific to Layout mode. And if we go to Find mode, well now we have a Requests menu. These are all the menu items that are specific to this mode. So you want to be aware, we're not covering all these different menu items yet, but be aware that these different things go on when you switch modes. And so that will make you one step closer to understanding these modes. Now what we want to do is make sure that you understand each one of these modes and all the little details of what you can do in there. So that's what we'll be going over in the next tutorials.