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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Going Paperless - How to Get Rid of More Clutter by Storing Product Manuals in Your Paperless Office

!±8± Going Paperless - How to Get Rid of More Clutter by Storing Product Manuals in Your Paperless Office

Do you keep paper-based product manuals and instructions throughout your home and office, just in case you need to reference them later? "Dude... that is so lame and yesterday". Clean out your home and office, clear out the clutter and be cool and hip by keeping your product manuals in your "paperless office".

You can find most manuals and instructions, if not all product related literature on the manufacture's websites as an electronic PDF document. Managing all your product manuals electronically is another great way to reduce paper clutter, and will help you quickly and easily find product instructions at the time you need them.

I have successfully found and downloaded product support literature from even really old products that I bought well before the Web was even around.

Here is a "de-cluttering home and office cleaning project". It will not only help get rid of unnecessary paper clutter, but the next time you need a particular product manual, you will be able to find it fast and hassle-free.

1. Go around the house and office and collect every product manual you find.

2. Throw out the manuals for products you no longer have.

3. Go to the company's website and search for the manuals you need. Most sites have an easy way to find their products and related support information.

4. Download the manuals into a well-organized location on your computer, so it will be easy to find later when you need them.

5. If you cannot locate a product manual on the Internet, then you should scan it with a document scanner.

6. After you store each manual into your "paperless office", you can comfortably recycle and discard it.

There are many reasons and benefits to going paperless throughout your home and office. And focusing on all your product manual instructions is another way to clear out paper clutter while helping you get more organized and efficient throughout your home and office.

Going Paperless - How to Get Rid of More Clutter by Storing Product Manuals in Your Paperless Office

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Paperless Office Best Practices - Define a Naming Convention Standard For Your Paperless Office

!±8± Paperless Office Best Practices - Define a Naming Convention Standard For Your Paperless Office

The Paperless Office concept is real. And with today's technology, it is more affordable and easier to accomplish for even a small home office. To successfully maintain your "paperless office", it is critical for you to establish a simple naming convention for all your electronic documents. When you follow a well-defined naming convention, it is easier to find your documents, and continually use and maintain your paperless office.

A naming convention is simply a well-structured standard that you define for your electronic documents. Keep it simple and logical, so that you and anyone else that accesses your documents can easily understand and follow your naming guidelines.

For example, a simple and logical naming convention for your home bills might be:

[date].[company].[type].pdf

Following this naming convention, your scanned "bill" statements may have the following file names:

2010_01_01.ComEd.bill.pdf 2010_01_15.Verizon.bill.pdf 2009_12_15.Verizon.contract.pdf

Immediately, just from looking at these file names, you can tell that these documents are your electric utility bills and cell phone bills. You also can instantly identify the dates for each bill statement. In the last example, you can quickly see that this is your "contract" agreement with your cell phone service.

This is just one simple example of a naming convention. When defining your own naming standards, consider a structure that will best support the way you think and organize your office.

And do not stress about getting your naming structure perfect in the beginning. The nice thing about a paperless office, having all your documents as electronic (soft-copy) files on your computer, is you can easily change your naming standards and tree folder structure in the future.

I strongly suggest to use "dates" in the first part of your file names, and format them as [YYYY_MM_DD]. Use the full [four-digit year], then the [two-digit month] and then the [two-digit day]. By following this specific format for dates in the front of all your filenames, you then have the flexibility to sort your files by "name", allowing you another way to quickly locate your documents within each folder chronologically.

As you continue to develop and maintain your paperless office, following your simple naming convention, along with a logical and well-defined "folder structure" will go a long way to keeping your electronic documents organized and efficient.