For our most sophisticated customers, those who need the power of Doxserá DB or Aurora but need to watch expenses, DB User is a welcome new addition. DB User provides customers all of the power needed to complete even the most highly intelligent forms, while avoiding the expense of the authoring tools necessary to…
“Decision fatigue” is the mental exhaustion caused by considering, selecting, and executing choices. The more choices we make, the more mentally worn we become and the larger the number of errors that we will make. The best time of day to create intelligent forms? Morning after a good breakfast. The brain will move resources from…
How to Help Brilliant People Shine in Your Firm’s Office Working in any office, there are hundreds of interruptions to distract you every day. The average worker is sidetracked every 3 minutes from the task at hand and checks emails 30 times an hour. That’s a lot of distraction. Then there’s the time spent looking…
Word’s Intimidating Complexity Word’s greatest assets are its numerous features and immense potential. At the same time, they’re also its biggest drawbacks. Average users are barely aware of the far reaches of this expansive word processing capacity, never mind fluent in their workings. Mastering styles, for example, takes a substantial amount of time and effort.…
Maybe it comes from a good place, but Word’s constant need to ‘improve’ your writing can be frustrating. Disabling or editing the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat features in the Proofing tab can help avoid such enhancements, for example by removing the capitalization of certain letters or those pesky automated bullet points. Struggles with indents and layouts…
One thing that makes Word stand out is its simplicity. The ability to just open a tab and start writing like you would in a book is impressive. It needs no training. But this ease of use is often overlooked by the professional text-editing market. When it comes to more complex tasks (e.g. handling data,…
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…
When we started the market research that eventually led to TheFormTool, we noticed the same failing that so disturbs Mr. Coker. The largest firm, at least at the time, was the major transgressor. Here is just a portion of his terrific comment on the approach some firms take. One of my pet peeves in this…
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…