
This feature allows the user to select the information from the current field and with a click find all matching records. “Although we would argue that 40 percent of them should be using a product like FileMaker instead of a spreadsheet, that’s a lot of excel spreadsheets.”įileMaker 8 now provides a way to find information much more quickly than in previous versions by adding Fast Match. “Our research has shown that there are roughly 100 million Excel users,” said Jay Welshofer, FileMaker product manager. With Excel Maker, the ability to save records to an Excel ‘97 and above compliant file will be a simple menu click. While the ability to import Microsoft Excel files has been a feature of past FileMaker releases, users were not able to export to an Excel spreadsheet.
