How a Spreadsheet Changed the Law
Long before cloud apps and AI, a humble program—Lotus 1-2-3—quietly changed legal work. A paralegal built a damages calculator that recomputed interest and totals whenever the facts moved. Partners called it “magic.” It wasn’t magic—it was structure: variables, rules, reusable logic. That spreadsheet was the prototype for document assembly.
Fast-forward: TheFormTool® and Doxserá® take that same idea and apply it to words. Instead of retyping and hunting for clauses, you capture your reasoning once—names, roles, conditions, calculations—and use it a hundred times without missing a comma. It’s the difference between copying a document and assembling a correct one.
For all that progress, one part of Word never evolved — numbering. For nearly three decades, lawyers and writers endured outlines that shifted, renumbered, or collapsed at random. It was the one corner of automation that time forgot—until Snapnumbers™ finally made numbering behave like every other systemized process: logical, predictable, and under the user’s control.
A spreadsheet didn’t make anyone smarter. It freed them to use the smarts they already had. That’s the promise of good automation: less busywork, fewer errors, more thinking. Just like Snapnumbers™
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What’s new? Check out the fantastic re-introduction of the Snapnumbers™ solution to Word’s terrible numbering system.
