AboutScottgem Expertise I can answer some questions on a wide variety of business applications, including MS Office, Lotus Smartsuite, Visio, Notes and many others.
Experience I have over 16 years of experience as an IT professional, supporting a wide variety of business applications.
Question I work for a property mgmt. company that is very paper heavy. I want to take our in-house forms (weekly reports, resident profiles, etc.) put them on my computer and be able to input my information by tabbing from space to space. Is that possible? Are you the type of expert to ask? Any assistance or advice is greatly appreciated!
Answer Yes its possible. Three products come to mind; Acrobat, Omniform and Paperport. Acrobat is Adobe's portable document format it can also be used to create electronic forms from scanned documents. The other two are both from Nuance software. Omniform, lets you design forms for both electronic or paper usage. It also lets you scan in an existing form and create an electronic form from it. Paperport, is a full featured document manager, but include a feature called FormTyper. This allows you to open a form and have the utility detect the portions that need to be filled in. You can also add your own fillable fields.
Another possibility you might consider is using a database program like Microsoft Access. Create forms to enter the data and then set up reports to print to those forms. The advantage here is that you now have the data stored in a database for later use. I don't know if that is useful to you or not.
Hope this helps,
Scott<>
Microsoft Access MVP 2007
Author: MS Office Access 2007 VBA
