| The problem with paper is that it is
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| | and they account for a huge number of
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| simply too expensive to handle. Posting,
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| | documents that could be stored
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| printing, filing, copying it for others -
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| | electronically.
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| expenses we can all do without. The
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| | If we adopt these changes then we benefit
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| beauty of paperless systems is that files
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| | not only ourselves but all our successors
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| of information can be held in a central
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| | on the planet and in our own small
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| place and looked at by anyone you want to
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| | technological way help avert the disaster
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| look at them. Taking files home to work
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| | of climate change.
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| on them has to become a thing of the
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| | One of the biggest culprits, when it
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| past.
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| | comes to paper storage, is MS Outlook
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| Did you know that avoiding printing
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| | (TM) . It accumulates a lot of
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| copies of emails and a 10% decrease in
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| | information that is passed from one
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| paper post worldwide saves millions of
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| | person to another and each person in an
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| tonnes of carbon emissions every year? So
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| | attempt to store it may print it out. The
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| why do we continue to post bills, cards,
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| | problem is then multiplied many times.
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| letters, brochures that have to be flown,
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| | The answer is to integrate case
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| driven, and walked to their destinations?
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| | management into Outlook.
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| So we need to develop systems that make
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| | Microsoft has for some time urged
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| using screen based files as easy as using
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| | developers to push their products into
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| paper files, where the file can be
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| | Outlook as add ins and some manufacturers
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| searched easily and quickly and where the
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| | of legal case management systems have
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| file contains all the information that we
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| | done exactly that. The benefits are
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| need. Once such a software need has been
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| | enormous in that users that know and
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| developed we as users have to be become
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| | 'love' Outlook are instantly familiar and
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| comfortable using it.
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| | need little training to use the new
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| Case management has been in the legal
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| | systems. Since Outlook is part of the
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| market for years serving applications
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| | email solution, and integrated to the
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| such as Conveyancing, Personal Injury,
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| | phone using TAPI, the file being stored
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| Probate, Criminal Billing and general
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| | inside outlook is a natural extension.
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| litigation so well. A typical personal
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| | Some software houses have gone further
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| injury transaction can generate over
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| | and integrated digital dictation into
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| 10,000 pages of documentation that has to
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| | Outlook as well meaning that the solution
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| be stored, copied, and distributed. Case
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| | becomes a complete communications centre.
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| management software can help avoid this
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| | The point is that we all need to make a
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| huge expense.
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| | contribution to saving the planet and if
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| This type of software now has to focus on
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| | that contribution can also save money and
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| paper based systems outside the legal
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| | time and makes our lives easier, then
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| market. Accountants, doctors, small
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| | saving the planet becomes more attractive
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| businesses all store paper based files
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| | all of a sudden!
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