Hi Bart?

As promised, the list below details a set of document test scenarios that we believe are a solid representation of the real-world documents that exist out there today. If there are no objections to these items, then I will work with Dennis to get them posted to the wiki tomorrow/early next week.

Thanks, -Stephen

Presentation

Conference Presentations

Presentations that are highly customized, well polished and represent something larger than the particular individual.

Presentation

Informal Presentations

Presentations that are either oriented around informal meetings such as internal team meetings ( e.g., a simple agenda slide to team status ).

Presentation

Note Taking

Presentations that are created on the fly and used to capture meeting minutes or brainstorming results.

Presentation

Photo Books

Presentations that are photo-heavy and provide simple slide shows with photos as the primary content.

Presentation

Pitch Books

Presentations that are very information dense and often used in the financial services sector.

Presentation

Sales Presentations

Presentations that are designed to be given to a potential customer with the goal of distinguishing the presenter/presenter?s organization from the competition.

Presentation

Self-Running

Presentations that are generally used as kiosks ( both interactive and not ) as well as self-paced training and education.

Presentation

Signage

Single-slide presentations generally used for creating certificates, posters and signs.

Spreadsheet

Application Add-ins

Spreadsheets that contain code which provides custom functions, macros (to automate tasks), or UI to make the user more efficient when working with the spreadsheet.

Spreadsheet

Budgeting

Spreadsheets that are information dense, usually rolling up a company?s financial situation through many formulas and relationships.

Spreadsheet

Data Analysis

Spreadsheets that contain copious amounts of information (often from another application, external data sources, or copy/paste) and are then used to summarize the information, turning it into data.

Spreadsheet

Data Interchange

Spreadsheets that are used to convey information from one application to another - usually in the form of CSV/TSV.

Spreadsheet

Data Manipulation

Spreadsheets that consolidate information from various data sources (or manual entry) and then clean the data through a series of macros or user interaction in order to make it more reliable for consumption by other LOB applications

Spreadsheet

Financial Statements / Balance Sheets

Spreadsheets that contain an income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. Relatively simple in that they contain Text, numbers, formatting, and a few formulas.

Spreadsheet

Forms and Calculators

Spreadsheets that are used to input data that is later used for other LOB systems or for a calculator in the same workbook. These spreadsheets often have very locked down sheets, where the user can only select certain options or enter data in certain cells.

Spreadsheet

Misc

Spreadsheets that are used as a 2 dimensional layout surface (for the structure of the grid) in order to build a well laid out document.

Spreadsheet

Pitch Books

Spreadsheets that are used like a Presentation, generally with one "slide" per sheet.

Spreadsheet

Scheduling

Spreadsheets that are used to track resources and work items for a project, often including a Gantt chart of the project timeline using a grid.

Spreadsheet

Stochastic Modeling / Simulation

Spreadsheets that are used to perform iterative analysis of/ prediction of an event taking place in order predict the outcome of said event. These spreadsheets that contain information that models a real-life system (oil production, factory floor, financial vehicles, etc.) to which inputs can be inserted and the results analyzed in order to find efficiencies.

Spreadsheet

Tracking Lists

Spreadsheets consisting of a list (or lists) of data, usually manually entered into the spreadsheet.

Text

Articles

Documents that contain carefully formatted content intended for publication in a magazine/journal.

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Books

Documents that are used to compile the manuscript of a book in a format ready for publication.

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Essays

Documents containing several pages of basic, unformatted text, without specific formatting requirements.

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Flyers

Documents used as marketing materials ? single page, designed for 6+ foot readability.

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Labels

Documents that contain a page of label templates, which are merged with addresses and printed.

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Legal Documents

Documents used in legal proceedings ? must conform to a specific layout/form, and are typically built over many revisions by many authors.

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Letters

Documents containing plain, unformatted text, intended for personal communication.

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Meeting Notes

Documents used to capture the results of a meeting? often informal, created ad-hoc during the meeting itself.

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Memos

Documents used to formally present a small amount of information (e.g. an initiative or concept).

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Newsletters

Documents containing multiple streams of specially laid out content (typically a fixed layout making use of 2D aspects of the page).

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Notes / Lists

Documents that are created on demand to store informal information (e.g. brainstorming data).

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Outlines

Documents that contain an outline of a larger document, but little/ none of the actual contents.

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Proposals

Documents containing a customer proposal, compiled from several authors and many sources (spreadsheets, presentations, etc.).

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Research Papers / Reports

Documents that are highly technical and conform to a specific layout ? common usage of academic features like equations/bibliography.

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Resumes

Short, highly structured documents intended to convey information in a single page. Formatting is used to customize the structured base.

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Structured Documents / Forms

Documents that contain structured content intended to be populated from data sources (e.g. a database) or form input from the user.