#Database program for mac like access how to#
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I look forward to hearing any suggestion/s you care to offer.ДЎ) ItвЂ™s encouraging to learn of another lawyer wise enough to use Mac. Then again, a captive user base is probably more of a sure thing than вЂњrolling the diceвЂќ by making their product easily convertible to competitor products.

YouвЂ™d think MicroSoft would want their Access users to be able to use their product on different platforms to keep customers using their product and not seek out suitable substitutes (like IвЂ™m doing). I feel I am doing something wrong in the export operation though IвЂ™ve tried every export format that FileMaker will accept from Access.ДЄs an aside IвЂ™d also like to learn just what makes Access so exclusive and hard to adapt to other products.

#Database program for mac like access how to#

Either in this thread or a similar thread Hans, who has helped me a number of times in years past, responded to another Lounge member that there is a way to get some 32,000 characters in Excel text cells but I did not understand how to make that happen when exporting. That fell through when I subsequently learned that Excel limits the amount of text its cells will hold (up to 255 characters).

I thought I had found my answer when I learned that FileMaker would convert Access files exported to MS Excel format. IвЂ™ve since heard through the grapevine that IвЂ™m not the only person to have received less than stellar assistance from the third-party developer. I could not get that app to work and the company was not forthcoming in helping me through the problem/s I encountered. Since I do not always have internet access in the field I like having the dbвЂ™s available to me on pocket size devices such as smartphones (previously they were on a PDA I used to have on which I used third-party apps such as HandBase to make field use of the databases).Д«lackberry has, maybe, one app that is supposedly good for converting Access dbвЂ™s. Needless to say, these dbвЂ™s contain a great deal of text in several fields. This might be putting the cart before the horse but itвЂ™s how I chose to proceed.Д«ottom line, I have several MS Access databases, in both the 2007 & 2002-2003 formats, that I produced over the years to reference State statutes, and case law decisions. The reason I am endeavoring to ascertain if FileMaker will suffice as an Access alternative is that IвЂ™m hoping FileMaker will be more universally usable on smartphones such as Blackberry (my current phone) and the iPhone and Droid X (phones IвЂ™m considering when I renew my Verizon contract this Spring). If you do then you will have to contact the makers of those file formats you are using to find out why they are appearing as вЂњgrayed outвЂќ and you can not open them.вЂќ IвЂ™m going to try their suggestion as soon as I finish sending this response. You may want to do a вЂњGet InfoвЂќ on thos вЂњgrayed outвЂќ files you export and make sure you have Read & Write privileges.

#Database program for mac like access pro#

Just in-case, I want to be sure you know that I am working from a Mac laptop on which I am running Office 2007 through a Parallels Desktop virtual machine, and IвЂ™m using the Mac version of the FM trial program.вЂќДЇileMakerвЂ™s support response was вЂњIf you are in the FileMaker Pro 11, and you are trying to open a file and itвЂ™s вЂњgrayed outвЂќ then that mean that file is unavailable and FileMaker Pro 11 can not do anything about that. DonвЂ™t know that youвЂ™ll be able to help me with this one but I guess weвЂ™ll see. It is obvious that I am probably doing something wrong but I cannot figure out what it is that IвЂ™m doing wrong.

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You already know about the Excel text data limitation issue and I am looking through a Windows forum for an answer to that problem (so far it appears I may be out of luck there). A past attempt at using an XMS format export file went alright a few days ago but this is where I found out about ExcelвЂ™s data text limitation. вЂњWhen I try to have the FM trial program convert the exported files I find that while they appear in the folder in which I saved them, the files are inactive (grayed out) and cannot be selected for conversion. To bring you both up to speed on what IвЂ™ve been doing so far IвЂ™ll quote what I wrote to FileMaker support: