I understand in Find Mode that if I enter in a field called
ContactCompany, <D , Filemaker will return all ContactCompany names
that begin with letters less than D (#, A, B, C). But this is not what
I get. Can anyone explain what I am misunderstanding here?

Is there a way to make part of a calculation field bold?

Here it is the starting point: Clinical research DB in FM 9 adv and FM
server 9 adv both on Windows platform.
The database has 10 tables, ~ 600 variables and ~ 1000 records.
I would like to convert the entire database to MySQL for a couple of

After installing Leopard on several machines in my organization, most
machines are fine but one user is having problems with Filemaker Pro
9. I have installed the update to 9.0v3 and the problem persists. Our
server is still running Tiger Server Edition, and Filemaker Server 9.

This is probably a stupid question.
I have a table, called "Sales", with 3 fields:
 1) Customer Name (text)
 2) Date of Sale (date)

I need some guidance on how to connect a WIN VISTA machine (at home) to a
MAC SERVER  at work to do work on a Filemaker Pro database hosted by the MAC
server.  The MAC server has a copy of Filemaker Pro installed on it.
so .. if  anyone provide me with information on how to ...

How do I open a file (PDF-Document) from my filesystem in Mac-Finder.
Ok  Open Url  in a script
file:///Users/MyName/ Folder/ document-name
 works fine

I'm playing with the trial version of Filemaker Pro 9 and am basically
trying to reproduce the same thing I've been doing with MS SQL to get
a feel for the type of thing the product can do.
What I want to do is import a text file which contains space delimited

I'm trying to connect to a FM Pro database via ODBC. I'm working with
perl, everything is allright, I can connect and retreive records but
in my database I have fields that are multivalued (?). For these
fields, only the first value is returned via ODBC. Is there a trick to

I'm having a problem with a field using zip codes for labels.  If I create
it as a text field, it will drop the zeros in front of the numbers like
02664  becomes 2664,
However if I make it a number field, it will drop the - hyphen from and zip

I a database in table view, if a field has more text than you can see,
clicking in the field causes it to extend down to reveal the full text.
But in the same database published on the web that doesn't work.  
Clicking on the field causes the table to sort on the column.  

I'm new to this group so I hope I'm posting to the correct location.
Anyway, I'm using FMPro v7 on Windows and accessing a database located
on a Filemaker Pro server. I need to create a script that simply opens
a dialog box and lets me select a file to open.  The catch is:

FMP 9 adv
WinXP
I have a file that I occasionaly want to share through IWP. Each record has
a calculated container such as

I have a site running a filemaker pro 6 database which serves about 6
users on various networked macs running os9 and os x. This has proved
itself to be an extremely reliable application, over the years. Recently
a more active pattern of usage has developed with a lot more data ...

Using FM8.5Pro
I want to calculate the number of days between a 'shipped date' and
'today's date' in a Receivables report.
I am calling the "number of days between" field 'InvoiceMaturity' - I