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Making FileMaker Pro Your Office Companion
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3. After saving, you can automatically open the file in Excel, and/or create an email
with the file as an attachment, or both. Just select the appropriate options at the
bottom of the Save As dialog box.
4. Excellent! Your FileMaker Pro data is now saved as an Excel file and presented in
the familiar rows and columns format that Excel users appreciate.
Exercise 4: Save data as a PDF file.
PdF Maker
Securely share FileMaker data with people outside your FileMaker workgroup—even
people who don’t have FileMaker—by creating, printing, and emailing Adobe® PDF files.
1. Choose “Save/Send Records As” from the File menu and choose PDF to create a
PDF file from all the records being browsed, the current record, or a blank form.
Share FileMaker data through PDF files
2. Click the Options button to access all PDF options available from within the actual Acrobat
application: Document, Security, and Initial View. By selecting options on the Security
panel, for example, you can control the right to open, print, or modify the document.