FileMaker Pro format
You can import from and export to files in FileMaker Pro format.
Importing from a FileMaker Pro file
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To import only a portion of the records in a FileMaker Pro file, open the file and perform a find so that the found set in the current window contains only the records you want to import. (See Finding records.) FileMaker Pro determines the found set to import from the foreground window in the file. If you import records from a closed file or an open file that is not displaying any windows, FileMaker Pro imports all the records, regardless of any found set.
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Exporting to a FileMaker Pro file
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Any global fields that you export are no longer global fields in the exported file. Instead, each exported global field becomes a non-global field that repeats the global field value in each exported record. If you wish, you can change the field to a global field in the exported file.
Note  To create a new file that contains the data, layouts, scripts, and other elements of the source file, you may want to copy the file instead of exporting data. Then you can open the copied file and make any changes you want to make, such as removing certain data. See Saving and copying files.