JPG, PDF, XLS, GIF, DOC, PPT, EXE, WAV, PNG … The canon of file formats grows larger every day. Staying familiar with the most popular file formats and what makes them useful can be intimidating, but mastering the ins and …

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If you divide the number of digital intrusion attempts in a given year by the number of people on the planet, each person receives almost two unauthorized access attempts daily. So, password-protecting a PDF file sounds like a reasonable course …

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Secure, customizable, and universally compatible—PDFs are the industry standard file format. PDFs can be a few sentences of plain text or hundreds of pages of photos, animated gifs, and even videos, so compressing PDFs isn’t a luxury. It’s an essential …

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“Paper thin” is the de facto way to describe something so thin it’s practically non-existent. How thin is paper, though? If an average ream of paper is about 2 inches thick, then each of its 500 sheets is only 0.004 …

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A process flow document can help eliminate confusion, create consistency, and provide a roadmap for unknown territory. To create these essential tools, you first should know when to use a process flow document, what components they contain, and how you …

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Document management may not be the most glamorous part of business, but it is an essential and fundamental practice for any enterprise. Whether you have two employees or two thousand, your business uses documents. While some businesses elect to manage …

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Until the 1960s, libraries still used card catalogs to index their collections. While OCLC stopped printing card catalogs in 2015, some catalogs are still in use today, such as the card catalog at the Library of Congress. What drove this …

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