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Snapdone News
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At last! The long-awaited new version of Snapdone (Version 6) is now available, with lots of new features including extremely flexible folder structures (with unlimited subfolder layers) and Outlook integration to allow Snapsaving of emails and attachments. Click here for an overview of what's new.
Free Snapnumbers Now Available! A free version of the Snapnumbers
program is now available for download (click here to visit the download page). The free version is not time-limited, and allows full use and control of Snapnumbers, including predefined and
custom numbering schemes. Upgrading from the free version to the full version (still $20 per
license) will enable these additional features: SnapTOC (easy tables of contents),
Snapsymbols, the ability to save custom numbering schemes for future use, sharing custom numbering schemes with others in your office, and easy office-wide
distribution of the Snapnumbers program over a network.
On April 25, 2007, Snapdone
was written up in TechnoLawyer:
Most law offices today run on Microsoft Word. Yet, most law offices do not believe
they run as smoothly as possible on Microsoft Word thanks to its annoyances and
quirks. Plus most of us are not power users who have the time to tweak Word to work
the way we want it to work.
Snapdone's eponymous product is a suite of Word add-ons designed to make life easier
for lawyers and law office personnel who rely on Word. Snapdone adds a menu to Microsoft
Word with all of its features accessible in that menu. Snapdone focuses on automatic
numbering, contact management, document management, and forms.
Many hairs have turned gray in law firms thanks to Word's notoriously flaky numbering
styles. Snapnumbers provides paragraph numbering that won't mess up your formatting.
SnapTOC creates tables of contents based on your numbering system as you type or
even after you finish a document. Snapdone also provides you with easy control of
printer options and a large set of keyboard shortcuts to speed up common tasks.
Snapdone also adds some convenient ways to work with your contact information in
Outlook. Snapdata produces a set of virtual index cards that everyone in your office
can use. You can also "clip" these cards together into groups to help you manage
cases and other projects. You can link the cards to your Outlook contacts so everything
gets automatically updated. From these index cards, you can generate letters, fax
cover sheets, memos, envelopes, shipping labels, email messages, etc.
Snapdone also helps law firms with document management. For example, Snapsave enables
you to consistently name and store documents in folders, and stamp each one with
a unique 8-digit identifying code. Snapopen helps you locate and and check out documents,
thus providing versioning so that you can keep track of changes made by different
authors.
Snapdone comes with many standard forms for your office -- from letterhead and fax
cover sheets to labels and court captions. You can even create a "caption bank"
for each of the courts in which you practice. You can also assemble your own custom
forms using menu-driven form-generation tools. Snapdone offers flexible form fields
thanks to quick fill-ins, document merges, and its ability to import material from
existing documents.
Snapdone requires Microsoft Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003, or 2007, plus Outlook for the
Outlook-related features. Unlike many document management systems and shared contact
databases, it does not require an SQL server, a big cost savings, especially for
small firms. Snapdone can operate on any type of network -- even a simple peer-to-peer
home network. Snapdone sells for $595 for the first computer and $145 for each additional
computer.
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