Intergrate a File Cabinet storage system like "Paperless Office" .

[Iron Horse -TFZ]

We need quick access to data. Not only Office documents, but also Outlook
e-mail documents and the ability to store and retreive them. Integrate all
this by developing a "paperless file cabinet" program that is part of office
and outlook but also capable of receiving documents from other software.
File cabinets themselves can be major subjects, ie: taxes, business,
personal, etc. Drawers in the file cabinets can be subheadings such, ie:
personnel, sales, marketing, etc. Folders within the drawers further
subdivide into catagoires and then further subdivide into folders for storage
of the documents. Use a grab and drop method for document movement. Also
need ability to scan current paper into files using OCR,ie: Make PDF, etc. so
they can be stored, sent or worked on as the user desires. Make it very
flexable so anyone can adapt it to their personal needs and desires.

 

[Dave]

this is not the right group for something like that... this group is about
writing code in vba. you probably want to talk to one of the big business
companies like ibm or ms or one of the others about an office integration
solution. you can kind of do that stuff using outlook and exchange servers
with public folders, but if you have any large volume of stuff to convert
from paper you will need more than that plus help doing the conversion.

 

[Brent E]

Sounds to me like you are wanting to use Visual Basic to develop a database.
Microsoft Access can do that to a pretty large degree: Import data from
Excel, Word, Outlook, pdf files, etc and you can break data up into whatever
categories or queries you would like to. There is a lot you can do w/ Access.

Also depending on amount of data you will be doing this for, (e.g. if this
is for a large department or a large number of people) you will probably need
to look into either developing some sort of program and database yourself, or
having this developed for you. But keep in mind that Access can bog down if
trying to process too much at a time. Access is terrific for small to medium
databases, but for really large and a lot more flexible databases, you will
need to use SQL, or ORCALE, etc.

I would be glad to discuss this w/ you further if you would like. I can be
contacted at
(e-mail address removed).