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There may come a day when you outgrow the capabilities of the Bento and that's not to say that Bento is not a fabulous program, it really is a great program. But you may grow your business to the point where you grow from a one man shop to an office full of people that need to share the information that's on your computer. Well the best way to do that is by using Filemaker Pro. So what I'm going to do is we're going to take our companies information, the companies that we work with and we're going to export that information and then bring that information into Filemaker Pro. So the first thing I need to do is select File, Export and in the Export Dialog I'm going to select Text. Filemaker Pro can also import Excel Spreadsheets, but we're going to use text for now and I will go ahead and export all of my records and all of my table fields. We're going to tell Bento to save this file as a Tab Separated or dot TAB. I'll tell it to go ahead and save this file in the documents folder and then click on save. Now that Bento is done doing its work I'm going to go ahead and quit Bento and we'll jump right into Filemaker Pro. When you launch Filemaker Pro you're presented with their QuickStart!! screen, that's basically just like the Bento Home Screen allowing you to get off to a good start. Let's go ahead and press cancel and we're going to perform a File, Open and we will open up our companies dot TAB. I see it right there but its grayed out and that's because I need to show all of available files, not just Filemaker Pro files. Once I've done that companies dot TAB becomes active and I can click on open. Then I tell Filemaker that the first row contains field names, not data. Click on OK and then I tell Filemaker what file name to give my new database. We'll just call it companies dot FP7 and once I click Save it opens up our new Filemaker database and as you can see it looks very much like the data that we had in Bento. We have a lot of the same records, actually all of the same records and right out of the box Filemaker is giving me two layouts to work with. A form view and a table view, so from there I can go ahead and customize the way Filemaker allows me to view and work with this information. I can share it across the network, I can web enable it if need be, the sky is the limit with Filemaker Pro.