How to Speed Up Any Form

Today’s programs from TheFormTool operate almost 100 times faster than they did just a few years ago. Even so, there are a few tricks to squeeze seconds or minutes from Forms’ runtimes. The biggest drag on speed are Conditions, where the program slows down to “think through” the interplay between the Logical Rules and the…

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The Importance of Words

According to the Human Engineering Laboratory and Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation, an extensive knowledge of the exact meanings of English words accompanies outstanding success in this country more often than any other single characteristic. According to the Johnson O’Connor’s nearly 100 years of study, “an extensive knowledge of the exact meanings of English words accompanies outstanding success in…

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Avoid CCleaner!

A customer recently shared an issue where TheFormTool’s internal files had been moved from their default location, then destroyed. Worse, attempts at fresh installations failed completely. The customer had been using TFT for several years without incident. The failure occurred immediately after installing and running CCleaner for the first time. The TFT Service Desk failed…

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We Can’t Recommend Box

We Can’t Recommend Box® Box is ten years behind the times and its customers are complaining Years ago we were troubled by security issues its customers faced when using Dropbox, so we began to favor Box for our customers.  Times change. Dropbox cured its issues, while Box is weighed down with technology that is no longer acceptable among…

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Our Contribution (2)

Our Contribution On March 20, to help with the COVID deployment mess, in which millions abandoned offices in favor of remote locations, we offered all of our customers unlimited free, pre-activated copies of our programs. The idea was for firms ranging from solo operators to Fortune 100 to have one less thing to worry about. Within…

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