FileMaker Pro 4.1 Mac User's Guide

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You can delete requests as long as you keep at least one.
To Do this
Repeat a request Switch to the layout you want. Choose Modify Last Find
from the Select menu, and then click Find.
Edit a request Switch to the layout you want. Chose Modify Last Find
from the Select menu, make changes to the request as
needed, and then click Find (or choose Perform Find from
the Select menu).
Delete a request Choose Modify Last Find from the Select menu. Use the
bookmark to display the request to delete, and then
choose Delete Request from the Mode menu.
Note Performing a find retrieves records from all the records in the file,
not just from those previously found.
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the or Help menu, and then type:
E copying records
Omitting records
When you don’t want to include all records in a particular group, you
can omit the records to exclude, to make them temporarily unavailable.
Omitting a record doesn’t remove it from the file; the record is removed
only from the current found set. Omitted records aren’t included in
summaries, and they aren’t sorted, printed, or exported to another file.
You can also mix requests to find some records and omit others.
FileMaker Pro works through multiple requests in order, so you first
define the criteria for finding records and then the criteria for omitting
records.
In addition, you can find records that don’t match the request. For
example, to work with all the sales records except those for the city of
London, you can specify London in the find request and then omit those
records. It’s often easier to omit the records you don’t want than to
search for all the records you do want.