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Warning to all new Ultra Recall users:
1) UR is very powerful!
2) UR cannot be learnt in one day!
The online help is, (as you would expect since it is associated with a high performance information management tool), very thorough and very well organised. The 2nd chapter "Getting Started", has a sub-heading "Samples" where the second paragraph says:
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Note: The sample databases are read-only. To modify a sample database or use it as a template for your own use, click File | Save As on the menu to save the database in your personal folder. The saved copy will not be not be read-only.
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If you want to learn UR in a week or less - read through the help file from top to bottom TWICE whilst playing with the sample files. (Ideally) you wouldn't even know about the sample files and how to manipulate them until you get to the above mentioned chapter. I suggest that a reasonably experienced computer user, having the usual pressures of life, will take most of a week to go through the help file twice. (NOTE: Don't try to understand everything that is in the help file. Simply familiarise yourself with what UR can do and how the help file is laid out.)
During that time, come up with a few crafty database ideas that you can throw at UR. Have the intention of: "OK UR - let's see what you've got - can you handle this punk - well can you?". Spend the latter part of the week trying to implement your ideas, reviewing the sample databases, re-reading the help file, and of course browsing the UR support forum.
Then - convinced of UR's worthiness - buy it and enjoy the journey. As "quant" alluded to, even as you become an experienced UR user, you will continue to be startled by tasty little titbits in places you least expect !!!
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