Newbie

[Emily at work]

Hello I am Emily, and yes I am at work right now I am not only a newbie to this wonderful informative Forum but also FileMaker and my job.

I am an AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). I am supposed to be helping with our IDA program (Individual Development Account), but first it was decided that we needed a Database and I was nominated to create and implement it. Now don’t throw anything at me, but I am used to Access and I have only used PCs…and no I am not getting a Mac *hugs my Dell XPS*

So I have FM8 and a book, FileMaker Pro 8 – The Missing Manual and I have started creating the DB. I thought it would be good to come and say hello before I start asking silly questions. And yes, I promise to look for the answer before I ask it :

[mr_vodka]

Hi Emily.

Welcome to the forums.

Take a look at the Whitepaper by David Kachel.

Its a pretty good read and start for beginners.

http://www.codemastersworkshop.com/downloads.html

Good luck on the project and job.

[Matt Klein]

Welcome Emily!!! Happy FileMaking!

[Emily at work]

Thank you for the welcome from you both :

I am downloading the Whitepaper by David Kachel now. So exciting!

[Emily at work]

Thank you so much for brightening my world...the Whitepaper by David Kachel is great. So far my Datbase is coming along just fine. It was a little scary at first But I am much better now. :cloud:

[flapjacks]

Once you do FileMaker you never go back. I'm a PC User also. Access is not the answer, FMP is. The #1 reason? This place. A great bunch of folks willing to share.

John