is there a way to print a list of the defined window or list? i just want a lis that i can compare field names and what they are.

thanks

Hello:

I think perhaps there may be a plugin that can do it, but I'm not sure. The poor man's way to do it is to enlarge the Define Fields window as much as possible, hit the Print Screen key and paste it into Paint, or some other graphic editor. Then you can print. You may have to scroll the list down and repeat the process if you have a lot of fields (which you probably do). Also remember if you do it this way to reduce the size so that it fits.

Ken

What is it you are actually trying to compare? The field names in two separate files?

Old Advance Man

Wow, that's cool. I never looked in that drop-down menu before. Thanks

If you are in Windows, Print and then select Field Definitions in the Print: drop-down menu.

Press command p to print.

In the print window (laser writer 8), change from 'general' to 'filemaker', and select 'field definitions'. click 'print'.

In filemaker, you can get field names using the status(fieldnames) function. You could paste the field names into excel for side by side comparison, or get more fancy, and use a script to copy the field names as individual records to a new db.