The single most-requested feature over the years has been Conditional Questions, where the interview changes the questions it asks based on the answers already received. The simplest examples are status (corporation, LLC, partnership, proprietor), goal (diagnosis, merger, estate plan, loan), and location (jurisdiction, tax, climate), but there are literally thousands of others. The objective is…
We are satisfied that current versions of Microsoft Word and Office updates have cured this issue. While we continue to recommend against using automated Microsoft updates, a manual update will cure this issue. — August 8, 2023 Microsoft’s Word update Version 2208 (Build 15601.20088) released on August 31 contains at least one major bug that…
Multi-Party, Multi-Role Decisioning Most of us are familiar with multi-party or multi-item uses of our software, where there are several signers, several choices from a sale catalog, or several symptoms described in a neurological exam. The “answer”, of course, is a List. Piece of cake. It’s a little more complex to combine multiple parties and…
The Fastest Training Our program downloads include several training aids suited for every learning style, and the Knowledge Base has hundreds more. A fair number of our customers read the one-page instructional Cheat Sheet for their program and are off to the races. Others rely on the 20-page summary or even go the distance by…
It was in January 2021, 18 months ago, that we first forecast massive inflation was coming our way created by runaway use of federal printing presses flooding the world with new paper dollars. Whether it is called “quantitative easing”or “printing money”, we predicted sudden and massive devaluing of the currency. In other words, inflation. Historic…
. The lowest-hanging fruit People often ask about our software’s most-used features. It’s an interesting and extensive list, but the top three are: Pronouns/Plurals — The average form has dozens of embedded pronouns and singular/plural decisions. These are high-error items that eat a ton of time for not much reward. That TheFormTool can manage them…
Technical tidbits from TheFormTool, LLC We’ve just welcomed the 1.25 millionth visitor to our main website and store this week, which called for upgrading the site’s operating system and various construction languages. The increase in speed, and time savings for visitors, is noticeable on first-page loads on both the main site and the store. The…
Law.com reported recently on large reductions in the ranks of legal secretaries at the Reed Smith and Fox Rothschild law firms. What received less attention was the significant upgrade of roles filled by the supporting team members who remain, and the roles played by technology that allow the firms to increase responsibilities and compensation. Wells…
Our Knowledge Base offers more than 600 subject-specific articles and videos. They are keyword searchable (pronouns or conditions or divorce or Salesforce or thousands of others) and are also organized into six different formally organized courses. Our total training environment ranges from one page cheat sheets to 200 page manuals or anywhere in between, videos from…
The development of new ideas can be spontaneous, unbidden, disorganized and random; or, disciplined, focused, logical and specific. “Too many” ideas can create a burden for the brilliant among us by interfering with their more mundane but necessary thought processes and cluttering their mental attics. The majority of us suffer from the opposite. We need…