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My Matters cleanup tips = Solve your mess
My Matters cleanup tips = Solve your mess

“One of the annoyances of the FileSite app is the inability to remove >1 shortcut at a time, to tidy up” My Matters or My Favourites.  However, there is a way to select a number at a time and remove them – you just need to know how to get there. Jason Plant’s reported the…

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Outlook crashes on launch? Maybe tangled NETs

If you (or your firm) have never experienced this problem, please don’t let this post plunge you into terror. It does not occur all that often: personally, I have never encountered this problem in the wild… at the law firms where I have consulted.  Nonetheless, this error originating with Microsoft .NET versions could be quite…

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Duelling Previews in Outlook 2007 and FileSite
Duelling Previews in Outlook 2007 and FileSite

Both FileSite and Outlook provide preview areas, but these are not interchangeable. Sometimes the Outlook Reading Pane becomes enabled – incorrectly – for a particular FileSite folder. Users often confuse the functionality of these two previews, and think that there is a FileSite problem because the Reading pane cannot display the FileSite item contents. “This…

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Forcing the order of Workspace Folders | FileSite close up
Forcing the order of Workspace Folders | FileSite close up

Why force folders to sort? Whether you like it or not, Microsoft Outlook imposes sorting on FileSite’s folders: an alpha-numeric sorted order. The sorting order is a design point for document management systems: I’ve incorporated it in Cersys DMS tune-ups and deployments for almost five years now, and I’ve been using it in email and…

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