101 Things You Could Do With A Tablet PC

Tablet PC 101 #3 Draw On your Computer

May
16
2008

In the course of your day to day business, there are many things that you might need to sketch or draw.

Here are some reasons that you might want to draw something on your Tablet PC:

Artists – create digital art on screen with a pen
Graphic designers – create a sketch concept and share it quickly with your client
Construction contractors – Create a sketch for your quote and pass it on to your team
Engineers – Mark up plans on site in AutoCAD
Insurance assessors – Annotate images and notes of damage
Bored travellers – Doodle on the train or plane.

Of course drawing preceded writing as the earliest means of visual communication, and they do say that a picture is worth a thousand words.

There are just so many things that you can’t put in words. But at least with a Tablet PC you can draw them without paper!

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Tablet PC 101 #2 Turn a Word document into an electronic paper form

May
15
2008

Most businesses have forms that need to be filled out.

Sales orders
Quotes
Purchase agreements
Purchase orders
Credit applications
Staff appraisals
Status reports
Condition reports
Job sheets
The list goes on…

The trouble with paper forms is that once you use them the information is stuck on the paper. Now to do anything with that form you will have to:

Retrieve the form
Store the form
Print the form
Scan the form.

There are a number of problems with that. Forms go missing and get lost, forms get coffee spilled on them, forms get up and walk around on their own.

A Tablet PC can instantly eliminate all of that with the simplest click of an icon. It goes like this:

Take out your Tablet PC
Open the form in question
Click print
Select “Journal Note Writer”
Give your file a name
Now you have an electronic version of your form.

You can then save your Windows Journal note as a template and use it over and over again.

Now if you want to, you can:

Email it to anyone
Save it in the client’s folder on you network
Attach it to your CRM record
Convert the handwriting to text

Windows Journal is free and installed on your Tablet PC out of the box. There’s also a free Journal Viewer for non-tablet PC users.

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Tablet PC 101 #1: Sign a Fax and Email It Back

May
15
2008

I received a fax this morning of a form that needed my signature on it. I get my faxes by email, so when I open up the file it opens in Microsoft Office Document Imaging.

I just click on the pen icon as shown in this screen capture, then I sign the document, save it and send it back by email. Done!

There are a couple of productivity advantages for this tip:

It’s the fastest way to sign and return a from
You don’t need to print it – saves power, saves paper – is environmentally friendly
You don’t need to walk to the fax (or in my case, drag out the phone cord, run it five meters and connect up the dusty old fax machine).

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101 things that you didn't know you could do with a Tablet PC

May
15
2008

There are so many things that you take for granted once you’ve been using a tablet PC for a while.

We realised that laptop users need to know what they are missing out on, so we decided to start this list. Over the next few months, we will be posting one thing every day until we reach 101.

I’m looking for suggestions, so Tablet PC users: Tell me how you use your Tablet PC. Email me at: brettg@tabletpc.com.au

If I like your suggestion I will add it to the list. Also include contact details and your website if you want them included.

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