On 2011 Jan 10, at 11:36, Peter Buchanan wrote:

> I may be mistaken, but most point of sale, hotel booking and other high data
> volume/fast processing environments require software which relies on
> keyboard or screen touch. Keystrokes will always be far quicker than mouse
> and keyboard.
> 
> I use Filemaker mainly for accounting and data capture, and would think that
> being able to use the function keys (F1 through F12) on the standard
> keyboard, to perform repetitive processes (enter find mode, add new record,
> duplicate record, show all records etc) would be very welcome.


Don't keep it to yourself, then, tell it to the people who are in a position to make it so:
   http://www.filemaker.com/company/contact/feature_request.html