Step-by-step tools help you build reports and email them to your colleagues as Adobe PDF or Excel Files.
Rapid reports and stunning screens
Let the Layout and Report Assistant guide you through the creation of custom layouts, labels, and reports so your screens have a professional, polished look. Gain valuable insights into your information by producing quick ad-hoc reports with ease or by automating standard reports.
Keep in touch
Create labels, envelopes and form letters from your information. This is great for email newsletters, news updates and more. You can include information specific to the recipient for added personalization. Choose from hundreds of pre-defined labels for shipping, mailing, inventory and more or select from common envelope formats. New with FileMaker Pro 9: 10 additional Avery label layouts including shipping labels ideal for printing postage online.
Easy report sharing
Whether you want to create an invoice to send to a customer or publish a report to your team, FileMaker Pro makes it easy to create an Adobe PDF from your FileMaker data directly within FileMaker using PDF Maker. Adobe PDF technology is integrated in FileMaker Pro so you can save FileMaker information in PDF format while preserving the original look of your FileMaker information. You control the PDF’s password protection and other security options as well as define the initial view. New with FileMaker Pro 9, you can optionally append multiple PDF reports to the same PDF document.
Easy Excel sharing
If you ever need to send data to Microsoft Excel users, you’ll find Excel Maker indispensable. With Excel Maker, create spreadsheets from your FileMaker data directly from within FileMaker.
Instant email
Not only can you create beautiful PDF and Excel reports in FileMaker, you can also automatically attach these reports to emails with a single click. Or use FileMaker Pro to send emails to your customers or vendors that are personalized from information in your database in a few simple steps without scripting. You can also email the contents of any field in your database using Fast Send. Send images, documents, Excel files, and more — right from within FileMaker. Simply click on any field, then right click (or ctrl-click on Mac), and select "Export Field Contents" to automatically attach the field content to an email.
Great New Features
Quick Start Screen Conditional Formatting External SQL Data Script Grouping & Editing Enhanced Layout Objects Get Started Quickly Gather Your Information Instantly Access Information Report & Communicate Powerful Development Tools Network Security & Sharing Connect with the Web
FileMaker Pro 9 is a
Universal Application
FileMaker Pro 9 works
with
Windows Vista
