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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
PDF Page 30
2nd and 3rd paragraph

The shortcuts for next and previous record show as using the "Command" key on the Mac. In fact they use the "Ctrl" key.

Note from the Author or Editor:
in both paras the text reads "press Ctrl (CMD)-" they should both read: "press Ctrl +"

 karenh  Apr 2009
Printed Page 49
Figure 2.2

Figure 2.2 shows and describes how values in the Status field change to question marks when the column is too narrow to hold the data. This does not happen in my version of Filemaker Pro (10.0v on Mac). When the column is too narrow, the data in the field is simply truncated and not shown as a question mark.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Edit the first part of the caption for Figure 2-2 to read: "This is the same database and active record shown in Figure 2-1, but this layout is in Table view. The Status field is formatted as a pop-up menu (page 245), but is too narrow for the data to show, so you see question marks, and the mouse ..."

 Charles Ritchie 
Printed Page 57
3rd paragraph down

Searching for "New York" returns no found records because in the sample chapter 2 file, each instance is misspelled "New Yorq"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Should be: 1. Switch to Find mode and, in the City field, type "New" and then click the Perform Find button. You don't have to type the whole entry you're looking for, just enough of it to separate it from other entries. FileMaker shows you a found set of all your New York records.

 Randy Knowles  Apr 2009
Printed Page 64
6 lines up from the bottom

Sentence should read "You're telling FileMaker to search the Notes field instead of the StreetAddress field." not vice versa.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Should be: "You're telling FileMaker to search the Notes field instead of the StreetAddress field."

 Randy Knowles  Apr 2009
Printed Page 73
Tip at top of page

Going to url specified, "http://missingmanuals.com/screencasts." returns error - "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /screencasts/ on this server." Selecting "Screencasts" from menu down the left side of the web page shows several different books, but none for FileMaker 10. Only FileMaker book is Pro 9, and for that book there is no screencast regarding text formatting.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The link should be http://missingmanuals.com/screencasts.html

 Randy Knowles  Apr 2009
Printed Page 73
Warning box at bottom of page

Unable to choose Format-->Text when no text is selected. Format-->Text is greyed out when no text is selected.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Should be: "...To avoid unintentional formatting, make sure that when you choose Format -> Text, you're just clicked in a field, but you don't have any text selected."

 Randy Knowles  Apr 2009
PDF Page 183
Box "Fine Tuning Aids"

It says ChooseView➝Test Ruler, it should say ChooseView➝Text Ruler (x instead of s in "Test")

Note from the Author or Editor:
Typo - should be "Choose View -> Text Ruler..." Note: I checked the print copy of the book and found the error, so presumably it exists in both places.

 HCT  Apr 2009
Printed Page 214
2nd line from bottom

Reference to (Figure 5-18) should be (Figure 5-17).

 Randy Knowles  Apr 2009
Printed Page 326
1st main paragraph

"Then click the select tool (Figure 7-23), and choose "Select related tables 1-away". Three problems: [1] The words "select tool" may be technically accurate, but are nevertheless confusing. In almost all Mac and Windows programs the arrow tool used to select items is called the select or selection tool. Therefore your instruction seems to send the user to the arrow tool, which is, in fact, labeled "Select" in Figure 7-23. What is actually meant is the "Select tables" tool. I spent a good deal of time clicking the arrow tool before I noticed the tool I was actually supposed to be using. [2] It should read: 1-away." (In English the period always goes inside the closing quotation marks.) [3] The third problem is not actually on page 326, but in the Figure 7-23, mentioned above. The tools second and third from the left ("Duplicate selected items" and "Create or edit relationship") are inaccurate. They should read something like "Add relationahip" and "Add occurance" or "Add table occurance."

Note from the Author or Editor:
1. p. 326, second graph, third sentence should read: "Then press the select tables tool...." 2. typo 3. Callouts on Fig 7-23 are incorrect. Second and Third tools' callouts are reversed. The second tool should be "Create relationship." The third tool should be "Duplicate selected items."

 Jeff Byers  Apr 2009
Printed Page 367-8
1st 2 paragraphs of Managing the Relationship Graph

Comparing two ER tables, one horribly complicated and the other streamlined and simple, the text confuses them. The complicated table is Figure 8-17. The streamlined one is Figure 8-18. Twice the text describes the problems of a complicated table and erroneously identifies it as Figure 8-18. It should say 8-17.

Note from the Author or Editor:
p 367, First full paragraph references Figure 8-18. Should be 8-17. p 368, First paragraph references Figure 8-18. Should be 8-17

 jeffanon 
Printed Page 714
Figue 18-7

The figure displayed as Figure 18-7 is actually Figure 18-8. (Figure 18-8 is shown twice.) The 18-7 caption is correct, only the screen shot is incorrect.

 PJWaldo  Apr 2009