HotDocs Document Automation Blog: Document Automation
What is an Interactive Form?
An interactive form is a data-gathering window containing multiple questions that interactively change based on user input. In other words, a user’s response to one question may cause one or more additional questions to be added to the window.
Document Assembly, Document Automation, and Document Generation: Three Terms that Describe the Same Thing
In the mid 1970s, when a group at the Brigham Young University Law School set out to create a software application that would automate the production of rule-based legal documentation, the group coined the phrase Document Assembly, a term descriptive of the process of using the software application (commonly referred to as a template) to generate a custom document.
MS Word Macros: Two Types and Neither Is Great for Document Assembly
MS Word Macros is a method by which you can automate a word-processing task that you have to perform repeatedly. MS Word allows for two types of macros, depending on the complexity of the task: (1) keystroke macros and (2) scripted macros (Visual Basic for Applications or VBA).