I'm looking for examples of collaborative document editing. I've read through most of the older threads on this topic, but many of the examples seem to have gone out of business. Are there any newer examples out there? It would be good to have a document "owner" that integrates comments and changes from many contributors, so I'm thinking that a wiki might not be ideal. The ability to compare revisions is a must-have and it'd be nice to have it show not only text changes but image changes. Doesn't have to be hosted, or even online, though if it is, that's probably better. [more inside]
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - 8 answers

Need help recovering lost document on PC [more inside]
posted on May 19, 2008 - 14 answers

SharePoint filter: Examples of how to use SharePoint's Records Center site type for corporate document management? [more inside]
posted on May 2, 2008 - 1 answers

Creating a form template for colleagues to use at work that needs to meet the following criteria: 1. Allow text fields and drop-down selection boxes. 2. Allow users to add additional text in should they see fit (i.e. doesn't disallow all input outside of form fields). 3. Will allow rows (the form will be arranged like a table) to be duplicated/copied & pasted, including the form fields contained within those rows. 4. Is formatted nicely enough to be passed along to a client and read clearly. 5. Is openable/usable by your average user who doesn't have access to super expensive/specialized software. [more inside]
posted on May 1, 2008 - 9 answers

I would like to go completely paperless. In order to accomplish this, I'll need an excellent bulk-feed scanner to turn all of my received bills and other important pieces of paper into searchable PDFs. Which scanners should I consider? [more inside]
posted on May 1, 2008 - 16 answers

I need to mail a passport and possibly other important, hard-to-replace legal documents from one Canadian address to another. Deadline is within the coming week. What is the most secure way to do this? If you have personal experience with this, please describe how long it took, cost, risks, etc. [more inside]
posted on Apr 10, 2008 - 12 answers

Word 2003 won't open after double-clicking on a document, and the mouse doesn't work in the document area. [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2008 - 5 answers

How to manage an unwieldy mailing list (for physical mailing) on a Mac. [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2007 - 3 answers

My grandfather recently showed us an old handwritten flight logbook from when he served in Guam in WW2 with the Navy. Would scanning this serve any interest to someone? Might it be considered classified info? [more inside]
posted on Nov 29, 2007 - 8 answers

How can I optimize an MS Word doc compilation process? 20 into 1. [more inside]
posted on Oct 25, 2007 - 4 answers

Help me destroy the rain forest: I'm want to print out a huge manual that only exists as a web site. What (free? cheap?) app exists that will allow me to suck the entire site into a PDF or some other sort of printable document? I'm Mac based but can scare up a PC if necessary. [more inside]
posted on Oct 14, 2007 - 5 answers

.chm to PDF conversion, Mac OS X. There seems to be no easy way to do it. Does anyone have an effective and trustworthy workflow they can recommend? (more inside) [more inside]
posted on Sep 23, 2007 - 11 answers

I have a Word merge document with merged variable info sandwiched around a preprinted area in which I want no text - is there a way to insert some sort of break on the page that says to Word "No matter how big section 1 is, don't start printing section 2 until this point"? Thanks for any help! [more inside]
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 8 answers

I have a question about the authentication of a Cambridge University-issued document by a California lawyer or notary for use in Latvia. [more inside]
posted on Jul 27, 2007 - 9 answers

IRS document request -- my boss has asked me to somehow make a request to the IRS for a 1971 document that our company filed. It was a request for 501(c)(4) status, which was granted. But the original application to the IRS is lost, and we need it. So how do I request an old document? Can I do it on the Web? Do I contact the IRS or maybe do a Freedom of Info Act request?
posted on Jul 27, 2007 - 3 answers

what should a nonoffensive nondisclosure agreement look like and how do I ask them to sign it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2007 - 6 answers

Help me find a Windows-based cataloging program that can handle indexing of Word documents and can crawl network (SMB) shares. [more inside]
posted on Jul 9, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm looking for a method or application that will create a list of unique words in a large text document (a Word document, currently, but can be changed to accommodate another format). [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2007 - 20 answers

Help! I printed out a long document last night on Microsoft Word (using ibook G4). When I looked at the file this morning, it only has two characters in it. I fear that I may have 'selected all' and then accidentally deleted it, then saved the document. But I have a clear double-spaced hard copy of the document. Is there any way to somehow scan the document and enter the text automatically, rather than retype the many, many words? (or some other way to retrieve the lost text?)
posted on Jun 1, 2007 - 10 answers

Networked repository for Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents, full-text indexed and tagged. Does it exist? [more inside]
posted on May 31, 2007 - 4 answers

How do I safely flatten old diplomas? I have two diplomas from 1927 and 1931 that I'd like to frame. They were rolled up in a box with other items for many decades. They are a little squished (but not creased), and they want to retain their rolled up squishedness. Both are printed on a heavyish material with a plasticy feel and a slight sheen; I don't know if it is imitation vellum, or actual animal skin. The documents are from the Mary Institute at Washington University at St. Louis (1927) and Mt. Holyoke (1931) if that helps.
posted on May 26, 2007 - 12 answers

I need a software recommendation. A small group of people want to be able to edit a document and receive email or RSS notification when one of the other members has edited the document. Further reqs: only one person can edit at a time, so some kind of check in/out feature would be good. We'd also like to be able to export easily to a printable format at the end. [more inside]
posted on May 10, 2007 - 14 answers

I work for a small non-profit. Our office is moving in the next few months and we have a lot of paperwork that we are required to save for 7 years, but this takes up a lot of space. Is there a better way to store this stuff? [more inside]
posted on May 3, 2007 - 5 answers

If I beam to you a document or spreadsheet from my pocket computer, is there a way for me to secure the file to prevent you from sharing it by beaming it to others?
posted on Mar 23, 2007 - 7 answers

Help me find an online document management system / digital asset management system. [more inside]
posted on Feb 27, 2007 - 4 answers

I'm looking for Document Management software along the lines of MediaWiki that is extremely user-friendly and FAST, but has more security options and more ability to control edits. [more inside]
posted on Jan 22, 2007 - 9 answers

My company produces monthly invoices which are badly designed and over complicated. Our customers are confused, and it's generating large amounts of calls into our call center with questions about what's on the invoice. [more inside]
posted on Nov 17, 2006 - 12 answers

What is the best solution for an IT department to manage documents? [more inside]
posted on Nov 17, 2006 - 6 answers

What is the best format/document choice for printing out structured and stylized data that is being fed out of a database? HTML/CSS is too restrictive in terms of formatting, text overflow, and it isn't easy to change. PDF creates documents that are too large. One developer suggested RTF. Is there a alternate/better/best choice that we should look at? [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2006 - 7 answers

How can I easily build a simple (read cheap) scanning system? [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2006 - 3 answers

How do I set up a simple document-capture system on my Mac? [more inside]
posted on Sep 16, 2006 - 7 answers

I'm assembling a document which uses tabbed page dividers. Should the tabbed dividers go before the corresponding section? Or should they follow, the idea being that it makes it easy to flip to that section by lifting the tab of the previous section? And yes this is a fantastically boring question.
posted on Aug 25, 2006 - 5 answers

Hello: After several years, I am finally upgrading and purchasing a new computer. My dilemma is moving files onto this new computer. My operating system on both computers is Windows XP. 1. I need advice moving my Thunderbird Email and Email folders onto this new computer. I understand that emails are really embedded and can be a problem. I also need assistance moving my FIREFOX bookmarks. I would really hate to loose those bookmarks! 2. I then plan to copy all my document files onto a CD using Nero and then recopying to the new computer. 3. I plan to go through the arduous task of reinstalling all my programs. That is my plan; however, I want to insure I am not overlooking a vital task! I really do need assistance moving my email and bookmark files. If I have missed anything, please advise. Thanks in advance. Bruce Thompson
posted on Jun 15, 2006 - 13 answers

I work at a small design firm. On our staff are several people responsible for drumming up new business. They would like to be able to edit and update text/images to a sales document. They want do this without having to task one of the designers to work on it. They want to be able to do it themselves without screwing anything up. [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2006 - 9 answers

Attention authors, typesetters, and publishers: Can anyone recommend a good online document-collaboration system? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2006 - 9 answers

I want to create a MS Word master document with the subdocuments as different translations.... [more inside]
posted on Oct 27, 2005 - 7 answers

I used ClamXav for Mac OS X to locate any viruses and had the infected MS Word docs (quite a few) isolated. Now I need a free download to clear the viruses and repair these documents. Know of any and where I can find them? For the future, are there any free downloads that do both the finding and repairing?
posted on Jul 29, 2005 - 0 answers

I’m tasked with finding an appropriate Document Imaging/Management solution for my company. We’re an engineering/environmental consulting firm with several offices, amounting to about 300 users. The ones I’ve looked at so far are Questsys , Docstar , Laserfiche and, (the really cheap solution) PaperPort . Does anyone have any experience with these solutions, or can you recommend another solution that you have implemented?
posted on Jul 12, 2005 - 5 answers

I've been asked to lay out a book for a small publisher. Aesthetically, I have a good idea of where I need to go with this. But this is my first foray into book design. What sort of application should I be using? I'd like to learn a bit about LaTex (I'm on a Mac running 10.4.1), as this seems like the most cost effective and professional route. Ultimately, I need to deliver the document in PDF format. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated!
posted on Jul 1, 2005 - 17 answers

What is the best software for scanning documents? [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2005 - 6 answers

A few months ago I came across an animated movie documenting the development of a wiki page. Essentially it was made up of screen grabs generated by going through the edit history of a document. Much googling and MeFi/Boingboing searching hasn't amounted to much. Anyone know where this is? Am I imagining this? Also: Does anyone know of an easy way to create a similar animation with a PMWiki page?
posted on May 9, 2005 - 8 answers

WordFilter: I'm using Microsoft Word as my word processing software for a very, very large project (my PhD). I have a strict limit of 100,000 words to follow, and although it seems as if that's a lot, I'm feeling the pinch right about now. The issue I'm having is that I get conflicting reports when I do a word count, using 2 different methods... [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2005 - 14 answers

Document management. I get a lot of paper documents (bills, letters, invoices, etc) and want to catalog them digitally. I want a program that scans a sheet (or multiple sheets), turns them into PDF and catalogs them (title, category, and maybe even del.icio.us style tags). Acrobat will do the first two stages, but I want something that does the cataloging too. Any suggestions? OCR not needed whatsoever.
posted on Jan 9, 2005 - 10 answers

im developing a *low key* department site for the company intranet. We've decided that ill write a simple menu that loads a word document into the facing frame for each menu item - this way i don't have to write any SQL or an interface for keeping the performance data up to date (the department employees will simply keep the word files up to date)

now the question - is there anyway to display a word document as a webpage (meaning: without the rulers and such along the sides and top)?
posted on Sep 7, 2004 - 8 answers

i've got a client that is doing private investiations of insurance fraud cases, and has been writing up reports in MS Word and embedding photos of the casework into those .doc files. the problem is that he needs to email these files to his clients so they can be proofread and modified (i had suggested .PDF files until i realized the clients needed to be able to modify the reports). Unfortunately, these .doc files with images embeded end up roughly 15 MB in size each, and become too large to email. they're not technically astute enough to resize the images to be smaller, however .PDF files nicely package that same 15 MB .doc file into a 250 KB .pdf file. do any of you have any ideas of a common document format that i can recommend to them that will take care of the image size for them?

thanks!
posted on Sep 2, 2004 - 13 answers

I want a word processor that lets two users simultaneously edit the same document. Every word processor I've used since, like, 1982, only lets one person edit a document at a time, for fear of people saving over each others' changes. In this modern age, I'm sure that someone has figured out a way to have changes be instantly transmitted to the other user over the network. Any leads?
posted on Aug 31, 2004 - 11 answers

My father wrote a document years back of memories of his (now deceased) college roommate and their Berkely debauchery. Now that (Word 6.0) file says it's password protected, though he suspects it's just corrupted. Li'l help? (More inside on what I've tried so far.)
posted on Aug 27, 2004 - 7 answers

What are some good examples of posting documents of varying shapes, styles, length and layouts (in this case menus) online. I'm thinking pdf -- but is there a way to do that free?
posted on Aug 16, 2004 - 6 answers

An acquaintance who travels overseas frequently would like to scan and store her important identification (passport and driver's license) along with her credit cards, and store the images securely online. We would like to make the documents easily accessible to her through a Web page, but otherwise secure. I have offered her some space on my shared server, and while I have some ideas about how to secure things, suggestions would be useful.
posted on Apr 22, 2004 - 22 answers

Is there any central authority or archive for XML DTDs and Schemas? I am thinking of developing an *ML, and would like to know if similar work has already been done, if there are any naming conventions, etc.
posted on Mar 2, 2004 - 4 answers