FormsAssistant 1.7

FormsAssistant 1.7 offers an effective tool which helps you to take the work and uncertainty out of creating and filling in business forms. Working from within the familiar Microsoft Word interface, FormsAssistant makes it easy to create new forms, modify existing ones, and fill forms with the appropriate information. By standardizing and automating your business forms processing, productivity increases, printing expenses decrease, and errors become less and less frequent.

By creating forms when they are needed, you can avoid expensive printing and storage costs. FormsAssistant saves time by allowing secretaries and data entry people to use form templates for employment applications, surveys, medical insurance paperwork, contracts, form letters, and all types of documents where much of the wording is boilerplate. Instead of buying complicated billing software, FormsAssistant lets you create invoices on the fly. Sales people can write thank you notes in just a few seconds.

Unlike complicated form creation software, FormsAssistant uses a simple, intuitive interface. All of your form creation takes place within Microsoft Word. Simply type or paste the template for your form. Indicate the parts of the form that contain variable information. In minutes, youll have a standard form that can be used consistently throughout the office.

To fill in a form, simply click the FormsAssistant icon on the Word toolbar. The program keeps all previously entered values, so you can select and reuse them with a single click. When you have entered all of the data, the form can be saved, printed, and treated like any other standard Word document.

 Who Needs FormsAssistant : You do, if you've ever:

1. Wanted to delegate updating a document to an assistant, but weren't convinced that it would be changed correctly
2. Sent a contract out with the wrong company's information or terms
3. Wanted a better way to maintain your company's contracts, agreements and other documents, but didn't want to take the time to install - and learn - yet another program
4. Wanted to streamline your insurance paperwork, forms, legal documents and other tedious, repetitive work
5. Tried using "Replace" to maintain different versions of your important documents
   

Major Benefits:

1. Easy to learn, because you are using Microsoft Word for most of the work.
2. Flexible and powerful, because you can use any Word document as a Form document.
3. Fast creation and filling of forms.

Major Features:

1.  Convert any document in a form document
   • Creating a form document is very easy. You start with any word document and insert fields by placing their name between square brackets.
   • For example in a lease agreement you will use fields such as: [Landlord] [Tenant] [Starting date] [Term] ...
   • In an invoice you will use fields such as: [Client name] [Client id] [Invoice id] [Item 1] [Price 1] [Qty 1] ...
2. Clips database
   • FormsAssistant keeps all values entered for a field in previous uses of a form.
   • If you use field names in a consistent way you will soon find that filling forms will be just a matter of selecting the correct value from a list.
3. Protection of form models
   • Once you have created and tested a form template you will want to protect it so that it can't be modified by accident. FormsAssistant will protect, with a mouse click, the currently opened form document.  

Enhancements: Added the installation check utility.

Requirements: Microsoft 2000 or newer