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Looking to start a small business? Or do you already own one and want to educate yourself on navigating the legal waters surrounding your establishment or corporation? There's a maze of information and processes involved with small businesses and sometimes it seems that there's no way to view it all in laymen's terms. However, with some time and effort, Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe can help you to learn about business plans, tax forms, promissory notes, security agreements, confidentiality agreements, and much more. Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe will even help you with marketing, domain names, and hiring practices.

Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe is primarily an electronic reference library with books on starting, running, and maintaining small businesses. These books are published by Nolo Press, a company whose primary goal is to assist anyone and everyone in understanding what they need to know about the legal arena. Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe also contains many of the commonly used forms for small business owners.

The books contained in the program are:

• Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business, Sixth Edition by Fred Steingold
• Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business, Second Edition by Fred Steingold
• The Employer's Legal Handbook, Fourth Edition by Fred Steingold
• Tax Savvy for Small Business, Fifth Edition by Frederick W. Daily, Attorney
• How to Write a Business Plan, Fifth Edition by Mike McKeever
• Marketing Without Advertising, Third Edition by Michael Phillips & Salli Rasberry
• Domain Names: How to Choose & Protect a Great Name for Your Web Site, Second Edition by Stephen Elias and Patricia Gima

Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe is an upgrade from Nolo's Small Business Pro 4.0 and is not compatible with Quicken Business Lawyer or Quicken Family Lawyer. While a computer program cannot be a substitute for a law degree, Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe could be a powerful tool for a small business owner who is looking for a broader understanding of the necessities and complexities of start-up, growth, and success. --Kendra Hayden ... Read more

Reviews (5)

It contains information, but is it software?
While sold as software, this is a hastily assembled conglomerate of information and some poor (in both content and formating) examples of documents. They have not even bothered to put any dialogs to help the user insert automatically trivial information (names, locations, dates,...) into the documents.

You may want to instead buy a copy of "How to Form Your Own Texas Corporation". The documents appear more complete, better laid out and you get a *book* to hold in your hands!

A good reference guide for typical legal problems.
Nolo offers great guides for specific legal issues related to personal and business use. This guide is a decent tool for users to call upon for typical small business issues. I must warn though, that not all legal questions and problems can be solved using self-help guides. Be realistic in your expectations of the software and it should serve you well.

Not as advertised, simply a watered-down online book
I was, unfortunately, very disappointed in the offerings of this product. I was under the impression that it would have a number of ready-made business forms I could customize for use in my business (contracts, amendments to the corporate charter, etc). That was not the case. This product is more of an online-book with very generic and watered-down information than anything else. If you were thinking of purchasing this product for their "forms," don't.

Lawyer In A Box!
This has been a savior. They should call it, "everything legal you need". I have used the forms for my own buisness (start-up) as well as utilized it at my job. I work for a fortune 500 company, and have been told by our legal department that I have saved them so much time, they rarely if at all have had to make any modifications to the subject matter. All-in-all, it's great if your just starting out, own a small business, or work for a multi-billion dollar corporation, and can't wait for your legal department to come throught on a deadline. Best purchase I've made in some time.

2002 Lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
I own a copy of Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe as well as Quicken Family Lawyer, and I was impressed with both!
Running a small business requires more and more legal forms and contracts every day.
Trouble is that your average attorney knows this, and charges accordingly.
Having compared some of the legal documents generated by my attorney and the same documents generated with these two software packages, I could swear (under oath) that my attorney must be using the same software!
Of course, there are some subtle differences, however, I found it to be considerably less expensive to have my attorney read and make modifications to the documents that I provide, than to have him generate them.
This software may not entirely replace your attorney, but it will come darn close.
I only give it four stars because it's not perfect and like anything else out there, it can be improved upon. ... Read more

Features

• Create you own unique look, with 800 fonts for your business cards, flyer, presentations, brochures and more
• Navigate the font library with a simple, built-in browser
• Select and install your fonts and change the size & color to match your needs
• Five different font categories -Script, Headline, Modern and Text

Amazon.com Product Description

Letters, faxes, e-mails--they're all great ways to get you noticed. But, you need to make sure you're making the right lasting impression. With 2001 Letters that Work, you'll be armed with powerful prose that impresses. Take advantage of this collection of three of ModelOffice's bestselling letter-writing products--all based on Dianna Booher's professional works. Plus, as an added bonus, ModelOffice's corporate writing team has provided 600 more letters, resources, and reference sections to empower you with letters for almost any topic. ... Read more

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OmniForm Filler 4.0 is a utility that allows users to fill in forms electronically. It's as simple as that. Perfect for large offices, this application lets staff electronically complete forms, without altering the structure or content of the form itself.

To use OmniForm Filler, you must first create an original form with Caere's OmniForm application. (OmniForm Filler 4.0 also supports features from OmniForm Premium 4.0.) For example, a form designer can configure the automatic completion of fields in a form following selections from a drop-down list. Similarly, if the form designer has used formulas in any area, calculations will be automatically created and implemented. OmniForm Filler 4.0 also includes a spell checker so you can make sure your forms have been completed accurately.

While there is no actual form designer tool in OmniForm Filler 4.0, you can use the software to create new forms based on existing ones. So a central services team could distribute standard memo forms, expense claim forms, diary planners, and so on, and allow individuals to duplicate blanks as many times as they require for their own use. All created forms and their content are stored locally for future reference so any data entered can be easily reused. --Sandra Vogel--This review refers to the 1-User version ... Read more

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Good reporting software - notable improvements
Having been a DBA and Crystal Reports developer for the past 3 years, I have to say that version 9 is a notable improvement over previous versions (we are using the Advanced Edition). Yes it's quirky and far from perfect - but as far as highly-programmable/distributable/printable reporting goes, it's practically the only game in town.

First of all, I like the new "command" object. You can use this to (among other things) actually write data back to the database (which is great for creating "tables of contents" and the like). I also like being able to create custom functions and store objects in a common repository. In addition, I've noticed that formatting tends to be much cleaner when exporting reports to pdf and other file formats. Also, the new compatibility with .NET will help us when we upgrade to that platform.

Another enhancement is greater ease when it comes to changing the datasource location. You can now set the datasource location on both the main report and the subreports from one window - instead of having to open each subreport, as was required on older versions. And the program seems to do a lot better at recognizing when an external app is dynamically setting the datasource location (just make sure the schemas of both datasources are exactly the same when doing this).

The Report Application Server (RAS) component (included with Advanced Edition) is a powerful tool for delivering reports on the web or across one's corporation, without having to pay extra. But be advised that you may need to do some extensive re-coding if you were previously using the RDC. Also, URL reporting is no longer supported - at least not with RAS. And if your corporation has a huge number of users, you might need to buy an additional processor license (which is by no means cheap).

Many of the same Crystal quirks remain: occasional locking up on huge queries or "verify database" operations; kludgey editing/formatting (for example, when you move multiple fields around, they don't retain their original spacing); frequent and cryptic error messages (although this is somewhat improved); hypersensitivity to any change in the underlying data source, resulting in a frequent need to perform a "verify database" (e.g., if a field's datatype on the server changes from a varchar(10) to a varchar(20), it will still truncate at 10 characters unless you do a "verify"). But now it at least allows you to manually map a report field to a database column even if the datatypes don't match.

In short.....until someone else comes out with a fully-customizable, fully-programmable database reporting solution that prints/exports/distributes professional-looking reports over the Internet and integrates with Visual Studio and other development tools.......Crystal Reports is "it".

Simple and easy
Suitable for end user reporting tool. Even a not computer-related person can produce a beautiful complete report. For several people, no training required. Can access many kind of data source, directly, ODBC, or trough Library. ... Read more

Product Description

Business Objects Crystal Reports 10.0 Professional 5 User Pack .Until June 15th, buy any 3 full products of Crystal Reports 10 Advanced, Developer or Professional edition and receive 3 FREE maintenance certificates for those units - a minimum value of $300! Designed for the creation and maintenance of highly formatted reports, Crystal Reports 10 Professional Edition is a high productivity solution that includes all features in the Standard Edition plus access to almost any enterprise data source. An introductory offer of Crystal Enterprise Express Edition is also included for out-of-the-box web report delivery to workgroups. Crystal Reports is an intuitive reporting toolkit that helps you quickly create flexible, feature-rich reports and tightly integrate them into web and windows applications. Broad Data AccessWith Crystal Reports' powerful data drivers and flexible ways to access data, you can connect to virtually any of your relational, OLAP, XML, or enterprise data sources. You can even report off of user-defined data. For tighter control over how the data is queried, Crystal Reports gives you the flexibility to write your own SQL statements. Extensive Formatting and Interactivity OptionsCrystal Reports can help you quickly transform data into rich information. Use more than 100 formatting options - including grouping, field highlighting, charting, and parameters - to control how the data is presented. With a range of viewers to choose from, you can easily empower end users with flexible report interactivity. Without additional coding, let end users drill down into reports, sort/filter information, refresh and print reports, and export them into many formats including PDF, Excel, and Word. Flexible integration for web and windows applicationsDesigned for use across development, deployment, and data environments, Crystal Reports can help reduce th... ... Read more

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High-quality, professional forms maker and filler in one! 250 clip art images, 20 sample templates, 250 fonts plus full featured databases and a bar coding program! Instantly design, fill, calculate and print forms using the easy, accessible tool bar.

All the tools you need to design, produce and fill professional looking forms for the home and office. Instantly design, fill, calculate and print forms. Contains clip art, templates, fonts, a full featured databases and a bar coding program.

• Instantly design, fill, calculate and print forms using the easy, accessible tool bar.
• Easily accessible tool bar features everything you need to quickly and easily design forms.
• Select from a variety of colors to outline, fill or create patterns on your form.
• Select from over 20 sample templates or design your own. Includes 250 colorful clip art images and 250 font styles to create forms for your every need.

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Business Objects Crystal Reports 10.0 Developer 5 User Pack .Designed for easily integrating report viewing, printing and exporting capabilities into applications, Crystal Reports 10 Developer Edition provides both report design and developer tools for integrating reports into applicationsCrystal Reports is an intuitive reporting toolkit that helps you quickly create flexible, feature-rich reports and tightly integrate them into web and windows applications. Broad Data AccessWith Crystal Reports' powerful data drivers and flexible ways to access data, you can connect to virtually any of your relational, OLAP, XML, or enterprise data sources. You can even report off of user-defined data. For tighter control over how the data is queried, Crystal Reports gives you the flexibility to write your own SQL statements. Extensive Formatting and Interactivity OptionsCrystal Reports can help you quickly transform data into rich information. Use more than 100 formatting options - including grouping, field highlighting, charting, and parameters - to control how the data is presented. With a range of viewers to choose from, you can easily empower end users with flexible report interactivity. Without additional coding, let end users drill down into reports, sort/filter information, refresh and print reports, and export them into many formats including PDF, Excel, and Word. Flexible integration for web and windows applicationsDesigned for use across development, deployment, and data environments, Crystal Reports can help reduce the complexity of integrating dynamic reporting functionality into your applications. Use its flexible SDKs to tightly integrate a variety of capabilities - including report viewing, modification and creation capabilities - into your application's presentation layer.Powerful deploymentCrystal Reports includes powerful .NET, Java and COM ... ... Read more