Why every office needs a typewriter
Beating forms into submission
Too often computers seem to make simple things complicated, so it's always refreshing to find an application that makes a difficult thing simple.
Forms are a bit of an occupational hazard in accountancy and anything that can make them easier to deal with is welcome.
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A very useful tool
Seems a very useful tool. As well as being used for simple Revenue and Companies House forms one could use it:
1. To complete a tax return for say a trust or a pension scheme where you might not do enough of them to warrant purchasing an additional module from your software supplier but still want to give the client a professional looking document rather than a hand written return.
2. One could even produce corporation tax returns using this method as there is little computation involved.
3. Interestingly one does not need to start with a pdf file. A client may ask you to complete a paper form for him. This could be scanned into Acrobat and then typewriter enabled. Again the client gets to see a typed form rather than a hand written one.
4. One danger is that it is also possible for someone to use the technique to tamper with a document.