This database manager is just plain tough to figure out, and the frustrating tutorial is a waste of time. The software itself doesn't make much sense either. After I had made a selection, the only way to bring back the window was to restart the entire program. The tutorial about the welcome window is long, boring and poorly designed for interactivity. The absence of procedures to follow or exercises to complete will have you dozing off in no time.
Paradox is constructed from confusing multiple tool bars and menu items.
All should be better organized and better explained. Its 500-plus pages of database jargon left me feeling sleepy, but it did make an excellent reference guide for figuring out Paradox 9. Eventually I found myself vacillating between two windows, trying to add fields and not understanding why some fields wouldn't add. I didn't have to do that in FileMaker. Then I began getting error messages saying that I could not run the template application because I had previously run it and it was still running on my computer.