Please give me some reasons to prefer Filemaker 8 pro instead of Microsoft
Access 2003.
Thank you.

I need to go through a couple of hundred layouts and remove the LTD off our
company name which has been written straight onto the layouts.
Is there any possible way of doing this automatically in FM6 or FM6
developer?

By that I mean that one of the fields in my database (and only one)
gives the following message when I input search words I know to exist
in Find Mode: "No records match this set of find requests." It's not a
spelling error. The field type is a drop-down text box with limited

Any ideas on determining the path of a broken link?
I just opened a Filemaker 8.5 database and found hundreds of graphic
links broken. The cause? Not sure, but I suppose there's a chance I
moved or renamed the graphics folder, and thus caused my own

Wandering through some old college files, I found a old, old .fm
database, dated May 1996.  Any straightforward means to retrieve the
data?  Prefer not to purchase a license just for this purpose, since
it's a one shot deal, but knowing if that will work would be good to

The last three days I haven't received any messages on the group. So just
testing if this comes back

My hard drive crashed and I went through the whole process (reinstalling everything on a new hard drive)
I reinstalled Filemaker Pro Advanced 8.5v2 and it constantly refreshes the screen which is very annoying, I never had this problem before and I can't figure out why this is ...

I am new to Filemaker and am used to using access.  I am trying to create a
report for students information using data from three tables and only want to
bring back the records that fit 2 of my criteria (e.g. on;y students from a
certain year and class).  How do I do that without ...

I have the following simplified example:
               Cost 1    Cost 2    Cost 3
Person 1    0            10            10
Person 2    20           10            0