This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Computers were going to save the world.

They promised a paperless office.

It would be the future.

No more paper ever.

And now?

Well, it is the future.

And guess what?

I need you to print up 95 copies of the handouts for my 200-page

PowerPoint presentation for next week's update on how to use work supplies efficiently. Thanks.

Our offices have more paper than ever before. And when I work with clients on turbo-charging

their careers, they send over copies of their 360-degree evaluations, their performance appraisals,

resumes, cover letters, and so on, all by paper. After 14 years, my client filing cabinet is almost about to burst.

How do I deal? I deal the same way I deal with everything in the 21st century. The cloud!

Documents created on computer can easily go into the cloud. But what about my filing cabinet? That, I scan,

and in fact, you can check out my previous episode on what to scan and what to keep as paper.

Physical scanning is easy, and there are many ways to scan stuff. I have a flatbed,

multifunction printer fax scanner. That's my usual go-to. It will scan a whole stack of paper at once.

But the max built-in scanning software is buried in the preview program, and the interface is pretty

much horrible beyond words, so I won't bother to describe it in words. Suffice to say that it's

cruffy, which is a nice way of saying something that the Quick and Dirty Tips Network won't let me say in a podcast.

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