Numbers, to the extent they convey information, can be fascinating. Prior to the introduction of Doxserá DB 4.0, we had never heard the term “zettabyte” and had no clue as to its meaning or the magnitude it describes. Until then, the largest numbers in our experience were those used to describe federal spending, trillions. A…
Collecting and storing data is valuable. Using it is priceless. Companies—firms like yours and ours—spend enormous sums to play their parts in the exponential growth of stored data, and we all do a terrific job of it. We collect information at every opportunity, with every click. We spend nearly equal amounts every year tucking it…
It’s been a difficult time at Microsoft over recent months, but not nearly as tough as Microsoft products have been on its customers. Here at TFT, we’ve spent months dealing with two very serious bugs Microsoft bugs that have affected our software. We wrote in October about a very serious bug Microsoft introduced into Word 2016 in…
Introducing Video Demonstrations of Lessons in the Expert Guide Many of TheFormTool’s users are already familiar with the online version of The Learning Curve, a tutorial for learning to become truly proficient with our software. The Learning Curve is divided into four sections—In the Beginning, Basics, Intermediate, and Advanced—and we strongly urge any user who intends…
The Community Treasure Chest As you know, with the exception of a single experimental area, we don’t inventory or supply forms. One exception are the dozen or so very sophisticated and very intelligent forms in The Community Treasure Chest. Many of the forms are contributed by graduates of our CCID certification course. If you’d like…
At this very moment our website is enduring a barrage of eight cyber-attacks originating from five different countries, the U. S., China, Turkey, Germany, and Ireland. What’s frightening is that this isn’t really news. It’s business as usual, merely a continuation of what has become “normal,” part of a pattern that totals more than 6,670…
We’re often asked where our software stores our customers’ data. It’s an easy answer: “Our software leaves our customers’ information wherever our customers wish, to store and safeguard as each sees fit.” Some will retain files on desktops or laptops, others on local, remote, or virtual servers, still others will choose one of the nearly…
We’ve added a downloadable Excel spreadsheet to the Community Treasure Chest section in the online Service Center. It is suitable as a Source for Doxserá DB, lists the 3,142 counties in the U.S. by state and shows the 2013 Census estimate of their populations. Click on the main menu’s Support>Help>Service Center at the top of…
A Wisconsin small firm owner who uses more than 300 intelligent forms in her business suggested we add an option for a user to select the automatic creation of PDFs when Petrifying a Set of forms. Emily was familiar with Word’s own ability to Save a document in PDF, but liked the idea of saving…
At least hundreds, perhaps thousands, of our customer firms in the legal services area are also customers of Themis Solutions’ Clio practice management system. Clio is the best in its space, so it’s no surprise that our customers would favor it. We think highly of Clio and regard its management team as friends, so it’s…