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Today, our 50,000+ LOOP users got a sneak peek at our new Publish service. Publish is available from within LOOP. We have leveraged Scribd’s iPaper to give you the power to upload virtually any file, select the appropriate page order and then use Publish to convert the new combined file for sharing on the Web.

A unique feature of Publish is the ability to upload virtually any file type*, combine them to one file based on your desired page order and then publish for sharing. You can publish and make your file available to the public or to a private group, all controlled by you.

Take a quick tour

Use Publish to start sharing your LOOPed files today!

* File types currently accepted include Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, URL, PDF, JPG, HTML, XML, Text, BMP, GIF, PNG, Publisher and Visio.

If you are like most of us, you have been using Microsoft Office documents for years in your personal and professional life. These files usually contain years of hard work and directly impact how you do your job each and every day. Knowing this reality, we created LOOP DDP making it easy to web-enable your Microsoft Office files.

Here’s how it works:

Let’s say you have a spreadsheet that you want to share but you hesitate because it contains years of hard work or even proprietary company information. It’s usually at this point, you have to decide (a) should I email the file?, (b) should I spend the time to remove all of my formulas?, or (c) should I use a file sharing service?

There’s one major problem with these options . . . all expose your spreadsheet and give away your hard work or proprietary information. With LOOP DDP, you now have a better option. Take a moment to learn how you can web-enable and automate your Microsoft Office files for sharing without exposing the files:

Steps to Web-Enable Your Microsoft Office Documents

We are proud and excited to introduce the beta release of LOOP Exchange. LOOP Exchange is a simple yet revolutionary way for you to web-enable Microsoft® Office® documents for file sharing.

Register today for LOOP Exchange, it’s free! If you are already part of our LOOP community, you can login to LOOP Exchange with your LOOP email and password to begin building and deploying Dynamic Document Packages (DDPs) for sharing.

LOOP Exchange is an industry first as it lets anyone create, build and deploy web-based solutions with the same Microsoft Office files that people have used for years. Since LOOP Exchange is built on a simple and proven technology, no programming experience is needed to create and deploy Dynamic Document Packages. Our LOOP community will be able to easily and safely share all of their hard work and intellectual capital without exposing their documents, formulas or secrets. LOOP Exchange brings web-based solutions to anyone who has ever worked with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.

What makes LOOP Exchange different?
Unlike other file sharing services where files are posted for sharing in their original format, LOOP Exchange goes beyond just sharing. We allow you to share your document or set of documents as a web-based solution protecting your original files and delivering dynamic output to the user. LOOP Exchange converts the files into a web-based solution to capture inputs on a web form and dynamically create output as a single PDF. The original files remain secure and untouched.

Since LOOP Exchange is part of LOOP, it also leverages our document packaging technology, which makes it easy to add other file types to your DDP, including any PDF, JPG, HTML, XML, Text, BMP, GIF, PNG, Publisher and Visio files, and deliver all of them as single PDF.

What is a Dynamic Document Package (DDP)?
A DDP is a document or group of documents consisting of Microsoft Excel, Word and/or PowerPoint files used to create web-based solutions. All of this is done without exposing any of the formulas or other confidential information from your original files.

To learn more, click here. We look forward to seeing you on the LOOP Exchange!

Today, we announced the Alpha 50 Program to our thousands of LOOP users. We are looking for alpha users to test and build Dynamic Document Packages (DDPs) on our new service called LOOP Exchange. LOOP Exchange is a simple yet revolutionary way for you to web-enable documents for file sharing (learn more). We are opening the Alpha 50 Program to our first 50 users requesting to be part of our alpha user group. If you are part of the first 50, you will be one of the first people to experience LOOP Exchange.

We are excited to have 50 of our users be the very first people other than internal developers at Drawloop to run, build and deploy web-enabled document packages on LOOP Exchange. We want to make sure that the LOOP Exchange experience is high-quality, easy-to-use and a powerful tool to web-enable your Microsoft Office documents. We thank you in advance for your participation.

To joint the Alpha LOOP Program, send an email to alpha@drawloop.com.

We look forward to seeing you soon on LOOP Exchange!

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