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Lesson 12 | Sharing and exchanging data 77

9. Make sure that an appears between both the First Name fields and the Last Name fields.

If you don’t see an between matching fields, click (Windows) or (Mac OS) to change

the setting.

The remaining fields should have (Windows) or (Mac OS) between them. The data in

these fields will not be imported to the target file.

10. Click Import.

11. In the Import Options dialog box, click Import.

12. Review the information in the Import Summary dialog box, then click OK.

Records in MyFile.fmp12 that contain first name and last name data have been added to

Sample

Copy.fmp12. The current found set contains the newly imported records. Browse the new

records to verify the imported data. Click Show All in the status toolbar to see all records in the file.

13. When you are finished with this lesson, close the sample file by choosing File menu > Close.

For more information

You have learned how to enable file sharing using FileMaker Pro and how to import data into a

FileMaker

Pro file. To learn more about sharing and importing data in FileMaker Pro, see

chapter

5 in the FileMaker Pro User’s Guide and see FileMaker Pro Help. For information about

publishing databases on the web, see the FileMaker Instant Web Publishing Guide.

Fields in the source file

Fields in the target file

Arrows show that data will

import into the fields at right

Import action

Source file to

import from

Target file to import data into

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