The newest and most powerful version of TheFormTool, TheFormTool PRO v2.5, goes to our beta-tester volunteers from around the world on Thursday. Version 2.5, knows as “Cinch” to insiders, represents a quantum increase in power over earlier versions but retains TheFormTool’s signature simplicity, where any user can expect to be productive within a few minutes…
We’ve posted the new features included in TheFormTool PRO v2.5, Cinch, on the Updates page. It’s quite a list! What’s truly remarkable is that all these new features, functionality and power have been created without moving away from TFT’s commitment to ease of use. It’s amazing! We expect it to be available to you late…
“Bob on the Service Desk” neglected to mention that Cinch is going into beta testing next week and is expected to be released a few weeks after that. He will be punished severely for his error. Users of TheFormTool PRO have enjoyed 16 major upgrades and assorted updates as well as scores of largely transparent…
To be useful, new technology needs to meet three standards. It must be powerful, simple and cost-effective. Cost-effective While fanaticism in defense of simplicity is an admirable virtue, every product’s longterm staying power is defined by its unique intersection of power and simplicity and cost-effectiveness, the three legs on which every value stool stands. First-time…
After several thousand visitors, it’s occurred that we ought to start re-arranging The Forum, TheFormTool’s community resource for self-help and great ideas. Please do drop in, take a look. In particular, give Helpful Hints a fresh look. Perhaps even add a great idea or two!
We’re asked fairly frequently if Word 2013 supports TheFormTool. The easy answer: it certainly does. Owners of Word 2007 or Word 2010 who are looking to move to the newest version can do so in confidence that their work created with TheFormTool will move with them, seamlessly and effortless.
Canceling an initial public offering at the last minute, terminating a years-long process and killing insiders’ financial dreams, is incredibly painful. When LegalZoom withdrew its IPO the day before its scheduled climax on August 3, the immediate waste of $3.5 million in cash was probably bearable. The likely damage to the firm’s reputation and relationships…
Large numbers of the members of the audiences at our webinars have asked for their own copies of the forms used to illustrate TheFormTool’s features. We’ve just added a package of four “Simple Samples” to our resource list, available for downloading. They demonstrate best practices to simply and easily build: Master Lists Conditional rows in…
We’re going to spin off TheFormTool software distribution operations into a separate company, TheFormTool, LLC, early in 4Q 2012. “We’ve been amazed at the world-wide enthusiasm for TheFormTool since its introduction more than a year ago,” said Bob Christensen. “As the fastest-growing, most user-friendly and powerful document assembly and forms automation software in the world,…
(Second of three) To be useful, new technology needs to meet three standards. It must be powerful, simple and cost-effective. Simple Nothing, absolutely nothing substitutes for simplicity in the use of technology; not money, not staff, not sophistication. Only when technology is in its formative stages, when it’s still developing rapidly, short of a revolutionary…