And those with whom you do business need to know about these changes moment they occur. Time is money so any way you can cut down on amount of time a task takes, less money you waste.

IT departments love WordPipe. But even if your business is not yet large enough to hire a full-time IT staff, you won’t lose with WordPipe. WordPipe is accountable, too! Its change log lets you know exactly where it made changes.

It doesn’t matter whether you need to find and replace information that is contained inside headers, footers, textboxes, links, hyperlinks, hyperlink addresses, field codes or any other built-in or customized document property, in any folder or sub-folder. Even files marked as read-only can be modified using special tool.

Need to change your company logo wherever it appears in your documents? No problem. WordPipe will work on a number of file types including .doc, .rtf, .html, .htm, .dot, .txt, .asc, .ans, .wri, .mcw, .wpd, .wps or any custom document type.

WordPipe supports all versions of Microsoft Word except Word 97 and earlier. This add-in runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and 2003.

So remember one golden rule of business: Nothing stays same. Accept this. Then seek out tools that will help your business keep up with these changes. And, most importantly, ensure information your business generates is kept current, or your customers will go elsewhere!

Even if you use packaged customer relationship management software at your business – products like Goldmine, ACT!, Epiphany and others – you still can use DataPipe.

DataPipe uses basic search and replace functions to tweak text that is stored in your databases. Whether you know exactly text you want modified, want to modify text that sounds like something specific, want to search for wildcards or particular patterns, or want to use fuzzy logic to help find typos, your data will benefit when you use DataPipe.

And best of all, you won’t have to contact your programmer and negotiate a costly change order when you need to use a different format for your date fields, or when you need to swap order of last and first names. But you can if this is what you need. You or your programmer can create custom filters using industry standard scripting languages.

DataPipe requires Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP or 2003, a hard disk with 15 MB free disk space and 64 MB RAM. It also requires SQL Server, Access, Informix, Sybase, DB2, Oracle, MySQL, DBF, FoxPro, FileMaker Pro, Excel Spreadsheets or any OLE DB/ODBC compliant database.

Isn’t it time your data look and feel more consistent, more professional, and perhaps even more impressive? When you run a business, you need all help you can get. And in today’s competitive business climate, first impressions make biggest impression. And unfortunately, sometimes first impressions are key “make or break” determining factor. So make sure your first impressions count.