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#9
March 10th, 2004, 08:01 PM
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| Yeah I know there is no version of Access for the Mac, and I thought of VPC too. I was just wondering, is there a way something similar to Works could be set up using Filemaker? For both platforms?
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#10
March 10th, 2004, 08:17 PM
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| 'Works' includes MS Word, too, I believe, so I'm not sure what you mean. But there's no easy way to port Access databases to FileMaker. Not that I know of at least...
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#11
March 10th, 2004, 08:43 PM
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| Dang, I already knew that  I guess I'm not making myself very clear, let me try one more thing  Is it possible to replace the Access DB with FileMaker in any way?
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#12
March 11th, 2004, 05:44 PM
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| M$ is creating a version of Access for the Mac...not that it's a good thing, but it's comming. Have him buy a copy of FileMaker...doubt he'll want to spend the money required though.
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March 11th, 2004, 05:50 PM
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| Where do you have that info from?
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March 11th, 2004, 07:56 PM
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March 11th, 2004, 08:34 PM
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| Do they have Microsoft Works or Microsoft Access? Works is a very different product (and does NOT include Word, it has its own seperate word processor/spreadsheet/etc modules) Filemaker Pro 7 has the ability to import Access data, not sure about Works data... And with FMProMigrator (http://www.fmpromigrator.com/), you can export Filemaker DB to Access MDBs (or whatever). It'd be better if you were both running the same software, though, and from what I'm told FMPro *is* a better product... So if he's thinking about buying a new DB product, that'd be the one to get. |
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March 11th, 2004, 08:52 PM
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FileMaker files could each contain only one "list" / "table" per file, which meant that for a contact database, you could have 3 related databases for a Companies / Contacts / Phone Numbers structure. Now, with version 7, you can have "millions" of tables and nested tables within one file. So, no more real advantage to going with Access anymore. |
