First of all, under the user interface options, you'll see show recently opened files. Now, in the general section, there's really three things I want to point out to you. I'm really just going to go through a couple of these settings to show you some of the ones that you're probably going to use more often and then we'll skip over some of the ones that you may not use at all. In this case, I'm recording on a Mac, so I'll go to FileMaker Pro Advanced, and choose preferences. Now the way that you get to preferences in FileMaker, is either under the FileMaker Pro Advanced menu in FileMaker for Mac or if you're using FileMaker Pro Advanced for Windows, you can find it at the bottom of the edit menu. Every other time after that, the preferences will already be saved.

You really only have to pay attention to these maybe the very first time. Now the very first time you ever launch FileMaker, it's probably a good idea to get familiar with some of the different preferences that are available to you.

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