Tutorial

Lesson 3
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4. Immediately after the ellipsis (...), type 6/30/2009.
5. Click Perform Find or press Enter or Return.
Your search returns six records, for six members who paid their fees within the first six months of the
year 2009.
Narrow your search
Sometimes, you might need to find records that match certain criteria while at the same time excluding
others (for example, finding all of the records that were added in a given year except for those added in a
particular month, or finding all customers who reside in the United States, except for those in New York
City). You can perform these types of finds by using a combination of multiple find requests and omitting
certain records.
Because FileMaker Pro processes multiple find requests in the order they are created, it is possible to create very
specific, layered searches in this manner. Omitting records in a search does not delete them from the database.
To find the records of members who paid their fees in 2009, except for the members who paid their fees in March:
1. Click Find.
2. Type 2009 in the Date Paid field.
3. Click New Request. Notice that the status toolbar shows that this is the second find request in this
database search.
4. Click Omit in the layout bar to have FileMaker Pro exclude any records in the found set that fit the criteria
of this second find request.
5. Type 3/1/2009 in the Date Paid field.
6. Click Operators, then select range from the list.
7. After the ellipsis, type 3/31/2009 in the Date Paid field to exclude members who paid at any time
during the month of March.
8. Click Perform Find.
Your search returns 11 records for 11 members who paid their fees in 2009, except the members who
paid during the month of March.
Click Omit