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"How Do I Get My Documents?"

This post was written by Jim Heckman: "When a firm first adopts a document management system such as Worldox, it has to contend with the fact that many secretaries and power users have constructed their own workarounds to compensate for the innate inefficiency of not having a DNS...

Fortunately, there are a variety of ways around this.  One "quick and dirty" solution that I frequently suggest is to have the user move those files into Worldox but to add there initials or a unique code such as your initials (personally I use "yyy") to the description. Then, you can do a search for "yyy" and all your documents appear...

An added benefit is that the "standard" documents can then be organized to benefit the entire firm to the extent that they are useful to more than one person.

The full text of this instructional post is available by clicking on the author's name.

Source: Does It Compute? 3 March 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).