Instead of giving presentation attendees fat binders of slide printouts, how about giving them a diskette instead? In Acrobat format, a linear slide presentation can become a searchable reference tool. You’ll save on duplicating and supply expenses, too.

If all your company employees have e-mail access, why are you still printing newsletters and benefits books the traditional way? With e-mail and Acrobat, it’s possible to distribute fully-designed publications in-house without printing overhead.

In addition to the printed version, why not make an e-version for downloading from your web site? It will enhance the accessibility of information, and cut staff and mailing costs for fulfilling individual requests for reports.

In technical environments, all those specs and procedure manuals can become so large that they’re difficult to use and store. Instead, consider the ease of use and storage of those same documents on a server or CD-ROM.

When business requires consistent, routine reports on events, a form created for Acrobat can make the data easier to enter and maintain. With drop-down boxes and well-defined form fields, reporting becomes more uniform. And, rather than taking up disk space with repetitive, heavily formatted documents, the data from Acrobat forms is saved as small text file that can be easily re-imported for reuse.

Liberate your file cabinets and shelves by converting all that paper into searchable, compact files. Rather than trying to create or purchase more space for more files, it might make good sense to look at this electronic alternative. Here are a couple ideas:

	Resumes: For Human Resources departments and search firms, paper resumes can be scanned into Acrobat and processed to enable full-text searches. Because the documents maintain their graphical integrity, printouts look just like the originals.
	Historical project documentation: If you still need it but it’s destined for storage, a searchable version on disk has distinct advantages over a storage box located who-knows-where.