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- TheFormTool is document assembly software (also known as document automation or forms creation). TheFormTool operates within Microsoft Word for Windows. TheFormTool inserts a grid placed at the end and into a Word template to gather answers that is used to assemble each final document. A form's Author creates Questions in the template and determines the effects of their Answers by using the software's tools. TheFormTool enables a form author to create a Word template that gets automatically assembled based on the answers given by form Users. TheFormTool allows document Authors to create intelligent forms and obtains document assembly via a simple, menu-driven interface, using point-and-click commands. The commands allow document assembly to be created without having to learn or type any code. The software can deploy lists, conditions, computations, repetitions, insertions, language assembly, as well as embedded rules for grammar and syntax. Form Users provide answers to the questions and then the TheFormTool automatically assembles the completed document. A form created with TheFormTool is a MS Word document that can be edited, saved, shared and managed just as any other Word document or template. According to Eric Zaidins, the typical user of this "remarkable software" can "be creating basic forms in minutes" at a fraction of the cost of some alternatives. Data captured by TheFormTool PRO can be stored in an XML file and is available for later reuse. According to the American Bar Association's Law Practice Today, TheFormTool "allow(s) a lawyer to set up a document that can be auto-filled with absolutely no programming skills." According to the editors of CNET, "It's one of the most capable Word add-ins we've tried, and one that adds the most to Word's already considerable capabilities. While originally directed to lawyers, TheFormTool "is useful in the creation and distribution of any document ranging from sales pitches and other form letters to thank-you notes to friends and relatives." According to Accounting Today, "The software can be used in audit reports, asset purchase agreements, appraisals, assessments, bankruptcy filings, bids, contracts, complaints, compliance certificates, evaluations, fee agreements, interview summaries, leases, mortgages, patient intake, history and evaluation, pleadings, reports of all kinds, statements of work, and other types of documents." (en)
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- TheFormTool is document assembly software (also known as document automation or forms creation). TheFormTool operates within Microsoft Word for Windows. TheFormTool inserts a grid placed at the end and into a Word template to gather answers that is used to assemble each final document. A form's Author creates Questions in the template and determines the effects of their Answers by using the software's tools. TheFormTool enables a form author to create a Word template that gets automatically assembled based on the answers given by form Users. (en)