The majority of our customers are happiest using a combination of menus and keystrokes, but “power users”, especially the very fastest, prefer hotkeys to do as much as possible while concentrating solely on the keyboard. Our friends at Affinity Consulting are a perfect example; with more than 20 years’ experience, they’re comfortable doing as much…
Microsoft Word is a huge program seemingly offering something for everyone and every circumstance. It has grown so large, in fact, that we believe it is becoming musclebound, less able to perform basic functions even as its features list grows. Six months ago we began collecting reports of infrequent and seemingly random failures affecting a…
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…
News happens in real time. Here’s how to stay informed without being overwhelmed Thanks to our enthusiastic customers, now representing more than 40 countries and more than 200 truly fascinating industries, there seems to be something new to share almost weekly. Recently, merely keeping up with it all has been a royal chore, with hundreds…
We’ve discovered a significant bug that was inadvertently introduced in versions 3.0 of TheFormTool PRO and Doxserá®. This bug causes Singular/Plural Fields that are based on Smart Answers that include Text With Pronoun ansers to produce incorrect results. We recommend that all users update their copies of TheFormTool PRO and Doxserá® as soon as possible.…
We’re always amazed at the imaginative uses customers find for our software, thousands of great ideas we never envisioned, with more developed every day. We thought you might be interested in what four early adopters are planning with Doxserá® DB: Mergers and Acquisitions. A lawyer specializing in large transactions has already used a beta version…
One of the most popular requests for new features for our software over the past year has been to include the automated computation of a truly accurate age, the age of a person, a building, a bottle of wine. TheFormTool PRO and Doxserá have always been capable of computing the passage of time with perfect…
The improvements to both TheFormTool PRO and to Doxserá® are so large that we decided they should for first time bear the same version number. It’s a pleasure to introduce versions 3.0 The changes include: An 80% increase in speed Six interface improvements Five feature enhancements And four major new features: Derived Series Answers, with…
This morning we shipped Doxserá v3.0b1 to our outside beta test volunteers, a group of our most experienced and innovative Doxserá owners. Nearly a year in development, Doxserá 3.0 introduces almost three dozen enhancements and new features and an 80{9e5c399d4686ffbee71f542e7a95a67178027d042b67cd6e8c3b22a26beb12ba} speed increase. We look forward to their reports. As has been our custom, Dox 3.0…
Metadata is information Word implants in every document to illustrate its origin and illuminate its change history. Current metadata includes any and all comments, document properties (including author history), email headers, annotations, track changes revisions, and routing slips. There are occasions where metadata can be helpful, but more often than not the existence of metadata…