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What is Office Automation?

What do we mean by "Office Automation"? 
Office Automation is all about using the computer to:

• Make your work less tedious. 

• Trim hours off your workload.

• Reduce repetitive keyboard strokes or mouse-clicks.

• Make data entry easier with fewer tabs or mouse movements.

• Take any job you do longhand and make the computer do it for you.

Office Automation does not always mean "punch a button and do everything from start to finish".  Sometimes the job still requires some manual steps through the work process. 

Of course, additional automation can be added to the work process as the process is understood more clearly.  Programming too much into the work process in the first round of automation can sometimes make the whole system inflexible and stop ideas from coming to the surface.  For this reason, automation sometimes occurs in stages as new understanding of the work process comes to light.

Office Automation may also be limited by the level of programs available to the user.  Or, perhaps they are limiting the automation to a level of programs that they are familiar with. Some prefer Excel instead of Access because of their familiarity and because they are afraid that if the Access database breaks, they will not be able to fix it themselves.  This is perfectly understandable and should be respected from the standpoint of the programmer.

Office Automation does not always mean programming a new tool.   Sometimes a better understanding of the existing tools is all that is needed.  A wise selection of the tools that are available may be all that is necessary.

Experienced Office Automation consultants are available to help you use the tools that you already have.  The following examples illustrate solutions to automating work processes.

Example - HTML Color Chart

Example - Steelcase Inventory

Example - Using AutoCAD DVIEW

Example - 3D Piping Symbols

Example - Typing in Foreign Fonts in AutoCAD

Example - How to create Isometric Drawings

Example - Using AutoCAD QLeader More Effectively

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