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PRIME DocLauncher for Office 2000:
New Productivity Enhancement Tool for Office 2000

PRIME DocLauncher is a COM add-in that immediately and seamlessly works with Access 2000, Excel 2000, PowerPoint 2000, and Word 2000. (For more information on what a COM add-in is, see the sidebar at the end of this article.) With DocLauncher you get one-click access to your favorite Office documents from practically any Office application menu bar (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) or from the system tray located right on your Taskbar. DocLauncher was developed by code maven Mike Craven and PRIME Consulting Group, Inc.

T.J. had this to say about the product launch, "We are zealously devoted to the idea that the productivity of a person using a PC can always be improved to their advantage and we try to realize this ideal in both the books we write and in the software we develop. With DocLauncher, we reduce to a single click all the tedious steps ordinarily required to find, open, and interact with frequently used Office documents."

Now T.J.'s really on a roll, "DocLauncher manages one-click dynamic lists of your favorite documents. We call these 'DocLauncher document lists.' You can use these lists from your Office application menu bars or from your system tray. Plus, DocLauncher supports any type of file: program executables, shortcut files, text files, HTML documents, and so on. You click a file in one of your document lists and DocLauncher smartly starts the proper parent application and opens the file. On top of that, our exclusive right-click pop-up technology allows a user to act on these files in ways not possible with Office's built-in interface. For example, you can zip any Office 2000 document and send it as an email attachment, all in just two clicks. Or with a mere two clicks see the contents of a document's parent folder displayed in Internet Explorer. All from inside Office!"

PRIME DocLauncher for Office 2000's feature list includes:

• supports five fully customizable "document lists" (one each for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word; one for Office via the system tray)

• offers a choice between an Office application menu bar interface, system tray interface, or both

• supports the following actions for files on any "document list" -- New, Open, Open Read-Only, Edit with Word, Edit with Notepad, Edit with FrontPage, Print, Quick View, Explore Folder, Zip in Place, Zip To (folder), Zip as Mail Attachment, Create Shortcut, Delete, Rename on Document List, Remove from Document List, and Properties

• integrates with Internet Explorer's file context menu, providing embellished Send To PRIME DocLauncher and Add to PRIME DocLauncher commands

• offers an Organizer interface for managing your document lists, including a document list backup and restore feature

• provides DocLauncher Tips to help users quickly discover DocLauncher's features

• uses Microsoft's latest MSI installation technology

• uses Microsoft Office's COM add-in technology whereby a single add-in integrates with multiple Office applications

• provides our one-click PRIME Updater for live updates over the Internet

To me, DocLauncher's coolest feature is that with one click I can select any of my favorite Office documents and then -- without moving my mouse so much as a pixel -- immediately right-click that target file and see a complete list of actions I can perform on that document. I can have it zipped up, slammed into an email message as an attachment and send it winging through cyberspace instantly. This saves me a lot of time during the course of the day. Our exclusive implementation of right-click support while the mouse is hovering on a pop-up menu makes it possible for you to do what comes naturally when working with files: right-click to see a list of relevant actions. The other neat thing about DocLauncher is that it supports any file type. Even with non- Office documents, DocLauncher is smart enough to know which actions match to files by type, saving you time and dramatically increasing your productivity.

Mike Craven, co-developer of this really handy Office utility, has this to say, "We've put a tremendous amount of work into implementing a familiar user interface (a list) that gives you the freedom to organize your files by importance and usage. Our exclusive right-click pop-up technology allows you to see all relevant file actions by simply clicking the right mouse button. DocLauncher is the end result of our team applying its hard-won expertise on Office products to every utility we make."

PRIME DocLauncher for Office 2000 requires Microsoft Office 2000 and is certified to run on Windows 95 (all versions), Windows 98 (all versions), Windows NT 4.0 (SP3 or later), and Windows 2000. PRIME DocLauncher for Office 2000 is available immediately as fully functional shareware with a 15-day evaluation period, or can be purchased on our Web site. All PRIME products come with an unlimited, lifetime, no-questions asked, 100% money-back guarantee. PCG is a member of ZDNet's AnchorDesk Software Vendors' Hall of Fame.

Sidebar: What Is a COM Add-in?
A Component Object Model (COM) add-in is a dynamic-link library (DLL) or an ActiveX executable file that is specially registered and can be loaded by any Office 2000 applications. You can create a COM add-in with Visual Basic 5.0, Visual Basic 6.0, or the Developer Edition of Office 2000. For more information on COM add-ins see:
http://www.thenakedpc.com/t/225/tr.cgi?comaddin1
http://www.thenakedpc.com/t/225/tr.cgi?comaddin2

For more information or to download or purchase PRIME DocLauncher for Office 2000, go to:
http://www.thenakedpc.com/t/225/tr.cgi?stdprice

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