A customer asks whether there is an easy way to copy data from Excel to TheFormTool PRO’s Questionnaire. Of course we suggested Doxserá DB as the complete solution, but we recognize that Dox DB may be too much for only occasional use. Here’s a manual approach for a once-in-a-while need. Set up the Questionnaire so…
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…
. 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…
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…
. How You Can Actively Manage Spam in Gmail Google has a tendency to randomly assign emails to its spam filters, from which they’ll never be delivered. On the other hand, it has a tendency to pass through tons of emails that it ought to block. If this is a problem for you, here’s how…
. Our customers report that creating finished documents using our software takes 71% less time. What does that mean in practical terms? Productivity. Given that the average office spends 60% of its total labor expense on document creation, it means a huge opportunity to re-deploy resources more productively. It’s enlightening to run the math: multiply…
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…
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…
A number of our more expert users have asked what approach we use internally to build a particularly complex component in a form. This is an approach that we’ve found very helpful. It recognizes that really intelligent users tend to over-complicate their searches for solutions to a form that doesn’t work as intended. We call…
COVID 19: How Best to Work from Home Here are our best thoughts on how to deploy TheFormTool resources from the office to home. It covers three different circumstances: Deploying from Physical Servers, Virtual Servers, and Local Machines. Note that we no longer recommend Box as a virtual server. It’s tools for changing location are…