Tips for Using The Paper Tiger

The Paper Tiger User Preferences

The Paper Tiger User Preferences change how the software is displayed. Your system comes with default settings for these preferences, but you can modify them.
To change user preferences, follow these steps:
1. Select Preferences from the View menu. The User Preferences dialog is displayed. Click on the tabs to change between preference options. [...]

Working with The Paper Tiger Database

You can have multiple databases in The Paper Tiger Document Management Software and Filing System in the Professional and Network editions to help you better organize your files.
Creating a New Database
You may wish to create a new database to keep files separate. For example, you might have a Home database for your home filing [...]

Search Your Electronic Files from Within The Paper Tiger!

How do I integrate The Paper Tiger with Google Desktop?
The Paper Tiger Document Management and Filing System software has built-in integration with Google Desktop that allows you to search your digital files in Google Desktop from The Paper Tiger interface. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Download the Google desktop from the below link. http://desktop.google.com/
2. [...]

Software Updates for The Paper Tiger Document Management and Filing System

Configuring the Automatic Update Service
If you are already in version 4 of The Paper Tiger Document Management and Filing System software, you can configure the Update Service to change the interval for checking for software updates. If you wish to configure the Update Service:
a) Click Help, and then Configure Update Service. The [...]

The Paper Tiger Spell-checker Options

(Professional and Network Editions Only)
The Paper Tiger Document Management and Filing System Software is equipped with a Spell-checker that will check the spelling of an item’s text as you enter it into a database. The Spell-check operates automatically in all fields in Wizards and the Browser.
Note: The Spell-checker runs automatically. If you wish to [...]

Make document management easy!

To eliminate procrastination with your filing, always make sure to have empty hanging files with numbered tabs already set up. Then you can just enter the information into The Paper Tiger document management software and drop your documents in the appropriate numbered file.

Filing The Paper Tiger way when you’re out of the office

Carry your Paper Tiger File Index in a file folder in your briefcase when you are out of the office. As you collect papers, note the appropriate item name and/or file number for them on the individual papers, and you or someone else can file them when your return to the office.

Retrieving files in your document management system is everything!

The purpose of your filing system is not only to put paper files away, but to be able to find them again (and without wasting time trying to figure out what file name you chose the last time you filed them!) Keywords are essential for quick retrieval. Entering keywords into The Paper Tiger document management [...]

Alphabetic Method

If You Prefer the Alphabet…
If you like the idea of using The Paper Tiger document management software, but find the concept of indexing or numbering your paper files impractical — or even frightening — fear not! You can use the filing system software and stay with the age-old alphabetic method of filing. You [...]

Category

Use a Category when you want to group files together for a specific purpose within a Location, such as clients, tax info, financial info, purchases, medical info, human resources, marketing, training, personal, etc.

Location capacity

Make sure you always keep your physical files in sync with The Paper Tiger. When you increase the Capacity of a Location, print the corresponding number of new tabs or labels to match. Then go ahead and insert the tabs or labels into hanging folders and put in your filing cabinet so they will be [...]

The Ultimate Virtual Filing System For Sermon Resources (And Your Entire Office)

The Sermonators interview Dr. Brad Whitt from Temple Baptist Church in Simpsonville, SC
If you are a member of the clergy, this audio tells you in detail how to use The Paper Tiger software to better manage content that you use for your sermons. Use The Paper Tiger to create your own personal library. Remove [...]

Is your reading pile getting too high?

Use The Paper Tiger to create your own personal library. Remove or photocopy articles of interest from magazines or newspapers or print internet articles. File them now, and read them when you have time.

What to Name The Paper Tiger Locations?

If you are starting to use The Paper Tiger software for the first time, the first decision after naming your database is what to name the “Location.” Or maybe you’ve been using The Paper Tiger for a while and want to refine the way you’re using the software.
There is not a right or wrong way [...]

A guide to converting to The Paper Tiger

The time it takes to convert your piles and files is justified!
Does converting your files to ‘The Paper Tiger way’ seem overwhelming? Do you have an office full of stacks and stacks of paper to be filed and lots of file drawers to convert?
There is an investment of time to set up your new file [...]