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  • The Learning Curve
    The Readers' Digest Condensed Version In the Beginning The Lesson Plan The Learning Curve Basics The Learning Curve Intermediate Level The Learning Curve Advanced Level
  • Deep Dives on Specific Features
    Form Sets
  • The Community Treasure Chest
    Truly Complex Roles Complex Math and Date Formulae Tidbits That Can Improve Your Experience Company Organization and Formation Oklahoma Dissolution Form Examples Sources: Master Lists, Spreadsheets, and other data sources Elder Law Little Tools
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    About Micrsoft Word Tips & Tricks
  • Resource Library
    Guides and Manuals Video demonstrations of the Lessons in the Expert Guide Organizing Files, Folders, Documents, Templates… and Your Life Converting WordPerfect to Word
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    All Things Mac, Linux, Tablets, and Other Items Miscellaneous Affiliates Feature Requests
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    Announcements Staying up to date Live on The Learning Curve! Current Versions of Our Software Updates for Doxserá and TheFormTool Archives
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The Readers' Digest Condensed Version

  • 1. Understanding the Anatomy of an Intelligent Form
  • 2. What Can TheFormTool Do For Me?
  • 3. Creating Your Very First Intelligent Form
  • 4. Basic Lists and Sublists, with Fields and Conditions
  • 5. The Ultimate Video for People Who Just Don't Have Time for Videos

In the Beginning

  • The Ultimate Video for People Who Just Don't Have Time for Videos
  • TLC 0 The Rosetta Stone, a starting point for future experts
  • TLC 0 Data: The Who, What, When, Where and Why of Information
  • TLC 0 What Can TheFormTool Do For Me?
  • TLC 0 What Does Doxserá Add?
  • TLC 0: What Does Doxserá DB add?

The Lesson Plan

  • Lesson #1 Fixed Date Offsets (10:38)
  • Lesson #2 Variable Date Offsets (12:42)
  • Lesson #3 Pronouns and Plurals (28:03)
  • Lesson #4 Conditions (9:14)
  • Lesson #5 Compound Conditions: This AND That (7:03)
  • Lesson #6 Conditions: This OR That AND The Other Thing (30:39)
  • Lesson #7 Lists (11:51)
  • Lesson #8 List Layers (24:58)
  • Lesson #9 Lists with Linked Answers (11:09)
  • Lesson #10 Lists with Previous Items (11:51)
  • Lesson #11 Sublists (10:18)
  • Lesson #12 Lists with GRIDs (29:42)
  • Lesson #13 Derived Series Answers (21:14)
  • Lesson #14 Sorting Lists (6:51)
  • Lesson #15 Math (13:01)
  • Lesson #16 Dates, Math and Derived Answers (14:23)
  • Lesson #17 Lists in Table Formats with Master Lists and Math (24:50)
  • Lesson #18 Creating Master Lists (6:41)
  • Lesson #19 Using Master Lists (22:00)
  • Lesson #20 Creating Folios (7:30)
  • Lesson #21 Tagging Passages (4:32)
  • Lesson #22 Folio Facts (6:34)
  • Lesson #23 Advanced Folio Editing (9:42)
  • Lesson #24 Asking for Passage Names from a Folio (6:43)
  • Lesson #25 Folio Fetchers (5:06)
  • Lesson #26 Asking for a Passage Tag fom a Folio (5:51)
  • Lesson #27 Questionnaires in Folios (26:49)
  • Lesson #28 Folio Passages in Lists (9:32)
  • Lesson #29 Folio Facts in Lists (3:49)
  • Lesson #30 Fetching Folio Passages (3:41)
  • Lesson #31 Adding a Data Source (9:01)
  • Lesson #32 Adding a Data Source to a Form (21:52)
  • Lesson #33 Using Dividers in the Questionnaire (4:32)

The Learning Curve Basics

  • TLC 1 Golden Rules for Every Form Author
  • TLC 1 The Anatomy of an Intelligent Form
  • TLC 1 Creating Your Very First Intelligent Form
  • TLC 1 The FREE Version: Menu Buttons
  • TLC 1 Buttons, Buttons, Who's Got What Buttons
  • TLC 1 The Basics: Questionnaires and Fields
  • TLC 1 A Fast Course in How to Organize A Questionnaire
  • TLC 1 Optimizing the Questionnaire
  • TLC 1 Save/Load
  • TLC 1 Sharing the Questionnaire
  • TLC 1 Navigating the Questionnaire without a Mouse
  • TLC 1 Replicating, Saving, Moving, Sharing and Modifying a Questionnaire
  • TLC 1 Basic Pronouns
  • TLC 1 Plurals and Pronouns
  • TLC 1 Fields and Lists, What's the Diff?
  • TLC 1 Conditions, Basic Principles
  • TLC 1 The Math Screen
  • TLC 1 The Math Screen, Directions and Tips
  • TLC 1 Basic Math: Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide
  • TLC 1 Four Math Functions
  • TLC 1 Formatting Fields
  • TLC 1 Formating Fields, Lists, or Conditions in the document
  • TLC 1 Make the Q&A Table go away before printing?
  • TLC 1 Uninstalling the program
  • TLC 1 The Check Form Tool
  • TLC 2 Numbers and Dates, What's the Difference?
  • TLC 2 What Now?
  • TLC 2 Speedy Fill
  • TLC 2 Find & Paste
  • TLC 2 Creating Clues for Navigating Questionnaires
  • TLC 2 How to Save a Questionnaire
  • TLC 2 Moving Rows within the Questionnaire
  • TLC 2 Building the Perfect Questionnaire
  • TLC 2 Conditions, a Logic Primer
  • TLC 2 Reviewing Conditions
  • TLC 2 Reordering Answers for Conditions
  • TLC 2 Basic Lists
  • TLC 2 Basic Lists and Sublists, with Fields and Conditions
  • TLC 2 How to Secure Your Forms Against Accidents
  • TLC 2 How to Remove Metadata from a Document
  • TLC 2 Master Lists
  • TLC 2 Master Lists: Matching Billing Rates to Attorneys
  • TLC 2 Gathering Name and Address Information, Choices
  • TLC 2 Mailing Labels
  • TLC 2 Creating Envelope Addresses
  • TLC 2 Names and Addresses for a Variety of Uses
  • TLC 2 Creating Envelopes and Labels, One, One Thousand or One Million
  • TLC 2 Installing Across a Network
  • TLC 2 Rounding Numbers
  • TLC 2 The "Perfect" Age
  • TLC 3 Use the Show/Hide Command to Make Users' Lives Easier
  • TLC 3 Changing Possible Dropdown Answers in a Questionnaire
  • TLC 3 Using Basic GRID Answers to Organize Related Data
  • TLC 3 Adding Rows and Columns to a GRID
  • TLC 3 When Are Series Answers Better Than GRIDs?
  • TLC 3 How to Automatically Convert Series Answers to GRIDs
  • TLC 3 Selecting specific items from within a GRID
  • TLC 3 Date Offsets and a Discounted Price Quote
  • TLC 3 Dates with Multiple Offsets and Complex Conditions
  • TLC 3 Lease Term and Proration
  • TLC 3 Attention Markers
  • TLC 3 Managing Blank Lines
  • TLC 3 Math and Pronoun Abbreviations
  • TLC 3 Lists with Fields included
  • TLC 3 Using Lists to Create Repeating Paragraphs
  • TLC 3 Managing the Order of Items in a List
  • TLC 3 Custom Lists
  • TLC 3 List Item Fields
  • TLC 3 Sorting Answers
  • TLC 3 Conditions — Simple and Complex
  • TLC 3 Formatting Conditional Paragraphs
  • TLC 3 Conditions and Paragraph Numbering
  • TLC 3 Letterheads on Letters to Multiple Recipients
  • TLC 3 Choosing between an Attention Marker or Default Text
  • TLC 3 When the Program Tab Disappears from Word's Menu Bar
  • TLC 3 Text Boxes? No. One-Cell Tables, Yes
  • TLC 3 Diagnosing and Fixing Path Errors

The Learning Curve Intermediate Level

  • TLC 4 Division with a Remainder in a Derived Answer
  • TLC 4 After the Basics, Building an Efficient Form
  • TLC 4 Conditional Page Breaks
  • TLC 4 Creating an Invoice from Scratch
  • TLC 4 Creating a Price Discount with a Derived Answer
  • TLC 4 Managing Derived Answers
  • TLC 4 Using the Show/Hide Button
  • TLC 4 Reusing Elements from One Document to Another
  • TLC 4 Moving From Lists to Sublists, Using GRIDs
  • TLC 4 Customized and Complex Lists
  • TLC 4 Sublists and ListSums
  • TLC 4 Wrapper Overview
  • TLC 4 Wrappers from PRO to Dox to DB
  • TLC 4 Adding a Logo to a Letterhead
  • TLC 4 Complex (Boolean) Conditions
  • TLC 4 Deciding Between Conditional Text and Folios (Doxserá)
  • TLC 4 Saving and Repurposing a Questionnaire
  • TLC 4 Managing File and Folder Locations
  • TLC 4 Barcodes
  • TLC 5 Protecting Your Forms
  • TLC 5 Managing Licenses on a Network
  • TLC 5 Removing Unused Network Licenses
  • TLC 5 How to Copy a GRID to a New Form
  • TLC 5 Roles and Parties
  • TLC 5 GRIDs and Roles
  • TLC 5 GRIDs, SubLists, Links, Checkboxes and Roles
  • TLC 5 Using Dropdown Answers with Linked Lists
  • TLC 5 Wrappers: The Definitive Demonstration
  • TLC 5 Numbering in Wrappers
  • TLC 5 Converting Numerals to Text
  • TLC 5 The Perfect Age... Formulation
  • TLC 5 The Quick-Fill Button (Doxserá Only)
  • TLC 5 Layered Lists, an Introduction to Complexity
  • TLC 5 The Basics of Creating a Set (Doxserá Only)
  • TLC 5 Using a Set to Build a Master Questionnaire (Doxserá only)
  • TLC 5 Managing Changes in Sets
  • TLC 5 Creating a PDF

The Learning Curve Advanced Level

  • TLC 6 Troubleshooting Sets
  • TLC 6 Customizing Intelligent Forms
  • TLC 6 Truly Sophisticated Role Management
  • TLC 6 Doxserá: Introduction to Folios and Passages
  • TLC 6 Folios and Passages: EVERYTHING There Is To Know (Doxserá)
  • TLC 6 Folios — Passage Tags
  • TLC 6 Using Passages for Lengthy Text (Dox only)
  • TLC 6 Using Word Styles in Folios
  • TLC 6 Paragraph Numbering in Passages (Doxserá)
  • TLC 6 Using Passages for Images (Doxserá and Doxserá DB)
  • TLC 6 Using Passages to Store and Insert Images
  • TLC 6 Preventing or Removing Paragraph Breaks in Passages
  • TLC 6 Q & A Table in Folios
  • TLC 6 Using Folios to Increase Security (Dox only)
  • TLC 6 The Authoring Button (Doxserá Only)
  • TLC 6 Layered Lists
  • TLC 6 Doxserá: When Forms Disappear from Sets
  • TLC 6 Wrappers in DB's Multidocs: Sophisticated Magic
  • TLC 6 Converting Numerals into Text
  • TLC 6 Making Excel perform like a real database (DB only)
  • TLC 7 Multi-Party, Multi-Role Decisioning in Specific Order
  • TLC 7 Strategies for Maximizing Data Densities Using Nested Lists
  • TLC 7 Connecting Doxserá DB to Access and SQL
  • TLC 7 Building an Outlook Relationship in Doxserá DB
  • TLC 7 Choosing Multiple Outlook Contacts (Doxserá DB)
  • TLC 7 Using Outlook Contacts in 1st Column of a GRID (Doxserá DB)
  • TLC 7 Moving External Sources
  • TLC 7 Pronouns from Outlook Contacts (Doxserá DB)
  • TLC 7 Basic Relationships in Excel Using Doxserá DB
  • TLC 7 Building an Excel Relationship Source for Doxserá DB
  • TLC 7 Formatting Excel to Feed Doxserá DB
  • TLC 7 Moving Data from a Master List to an Excel Spreadsheet (DB only)
  • TLC 7 Creating Lists with Fields Using an External Source (Dox DB only)
  • TLC 7 Names and Addresses by the Thousands (DB only)
  • TLC 7 Form Letters (DB only)
  • TLC 7 How to Master Complexity Building an Intelligent Form
  • TLC 7 Creating Custom Hotkeys (Doxserá and Doxserá DB only)

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