ID-Sign for MS Office for Windows

User Reviews

• The best security software!!!

  tomboy2007September 29, 2007

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  This is a really great software. We use it everyday for 6 months now. It paid for itself in just a few months. I can't recommend it enough. Download it, try it to see for yourself.

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  Nothing negative I can think. This is a really great software.

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• Great digital signature software

  lesliebbMay 1, 2007

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  This is a really great digital signature software for Office. We are using it on a daily basis now. It works with basically all standard-compliant digital certificates. <p> <p>You can get free digital certificates from a few places, such as cacert.org, thawte.com, comodo.com, etc. After getting your certificate, you can sign with ID-Sign, and no more printouts to sign. <p> <p>I recommend it. Try it out.

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  Nothing negative I can think of.

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• Excellent digital signature software!

  alpha_geek2000April 15, 2007

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  This is an excellent software, it does exactly what it is supposed to do, and exactly what I am looking for. <p> <p>It fits our business process really well. Actually, this idea of locked fields, as defined in ID-Sign, should allow it to fit any approval process in any real business environment. It is really flexible, and you can do anything you want with it in your approval process. <p> <p>Other reviewers already described of how they use the software for, so you get the idea. <p> <p>Signature verification is automated, thorough, detailed, and very nicely done too. <p> <p>I'd recommend it.

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  The version (v2.8.6) available here has a small bug. It might not work very well with some certificate authority servers when you try to download CRL file. It works with most CA servers, but does not work with some. <p> <p>You can get a newer version (v2.8.8) from IDSignet web site (idsignet.com), which fixed the problem. The company releases updates quite often, so I'd suggest everyone to check it at their site from time to time. <p> <p>The user's manual is a bit outdated though. However, it should cover almost everything you need to know.

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• Nice locked fields

  coderkingApril 4, 2007

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  The best thing about ID-Sign is the locked fields. With that, you can basically indicate what you want to sign in a document. <p> <p>A locked field can be a single character, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, an image, a table, a cell in a table, multiple cells in the table, an embedded spreadsheet, an embedded Word document, a chart, a graph, the whole document, another ID-Sign signature, .... well, basically, anything in the document. <p> <p>The interesting thing is, once you understand that, you can use ID-Sign in any document in a business environment. No matter how many persons need to sign in the document, no matter what the document structure is, ID-Sign just works the way your business process works. You don't need to customize your process to fit it, it just fits your process. <p> <p>This is not all, ID-Sign makes using digital signature so simple. Other reviewers had already mentioned about automated validation, automatic recognition of USB tokens, etc, so I won't repeat here. They are make ID-Sign great. <p> <p>I installed it on Office 2007, and it just works. Good stuff. <p> <p>I tried out some other signature softwares too, but they make Office crawl like a snail. ID-Sign feels like a fresh air, you don't see any Office performance hit when using it, except a little bit at startup.

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  Nothing negative that I can think of, except that it makes starting up Word half a second slower. But that's the way Office handles plugin anyway.

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• Excellent!

  jason_ambroMarch 13, 2007

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  Excellent software, easy to use, 3 clicks to install, and you're done. <p> <p>You can download the trial version, and use it (or try it) for as long as you would like. No spamware, no malware, totally clean. That's really nice. <p> <p>If your business requires to print a lot of documents to sign, I'd recommend to buy some licenses. The money you currently spend on printer toner would more than pay for the price of the software. If you change your printer toner every month (or even more frequently), the price of ID-Sign would pay itself off in less than a month or two. <p> <p>It's really worth the money.

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• Our headache solved!

  tzendrosMarch 6, 2007

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  I read natalie_petrokovski's updated review the other day, and found her situation amazingly similar to ours. We have 5 offices across the country, all connected to the same online approval system. The nasty thing is, everytime we need to sign a document in the approval process (and we do this many times a day, per our business requirements), we had to print it out. If it is a cross-department approval process, we had to fedex the thing across the country. In order to keep the signed documents in a central place (for auditing mainly), all signed documents must be shipped back to HQ as their final destination. It is messy, as people don't always do that. Sometimes, we lost the document before the approval process is finished, unbelievable. We were wondering what the online approval and collaboration system was for, because we did everything through snail mail, fax, and fedex anyway. <p> <p>Then I saw natalie_petrokovski's updated review, and decided to download ID-Sign for some trial. <p> <p>I have to say, we had been using for 2 days only, and between only two departments. So far so good, it works like a charm. With ID-Sign, the online approval and collaboration is doing what it is really built for, for this first time. <p> <p>Now, we just sign the document with ID-Sign, check it in to the approval system, the document is routed to the right person. The person checks out, approves/denies it, check it back in, it get routed to the next stop. Everyone can follow where the document is, what its status, who has signed it and who has not, etc, etc. And all these are done in real time, no more waiting for the fedex guy to pick up the package, and check if the package has arrived the next day, and try to track it down if it's not... No more running around like a headless chicken. Really cool. Now, this is what I call a real online collaboration and approval process. ID-Sign just filled the missing gap, which was the biggest headache in our business. <p> <p>If your situation is like ours, I'd say, give ID-Sign a try.

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• Great software, responsive company

  yamaguchi_ariFebruary 7, 2007

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  It is a great software, from a very responsive company with excellent service. You can pay by Paypal too. <p> <p>And best of all, the tech support knows what they are talking about.

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• Great software, easy to use!

  natalie_petrokovskiFebruary 5, 2007

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  Click through 3 buttons in the installation process, start up Word or Excel, and you are ready to sign your documents digitally. It's as easy as that. <p> <p>Really great software, very easy to use. It works seamlessly in our office environment. If you have Active Directory, set up so that everyone in the office can apply for a digital certificate, and you are ready for a paperless office. (Note: take a look at the company's web site, idsignet.com, which has an article on that topic) <p> <p>I really recommend it.

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  If you don't know what a digital certificate is, it may be a bit confusing for you. After the installation, as you are ready to sign your document, it just shows that it can't find a signature certificate. <p> <p>It would be great if ID-Sign provide a tool to generate a self-signed certificate for users who don't have one. Granted, that's not what you want to use in serious document, but it would allow new users to start. <p> <p>But that's a nice-to-have feature, not necessary though.

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• ID-Sign is the way digital signature software should be!

  antoine_in_mtrlFebruary 3, 2007

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  I'm not a security guru, but I have background in cryptography and security-related work experiences. I found the software here, downloaded it just for testing out. <p> <p>What I found really impressed me. ID-Sign's designers takes the context of digital signature applications into consideration, and tried to make the act of signing as simple as you can get. What is amazing is that they actually succeeded. <p> <p>The software is small in footprint, but is packed with really nice features. Other softwares require users to perform complicated steps to sign and verify a signature, ID-Sign made all it automated. And I have to say, they got it right too. ID-Sign takes multiple steps (all automated, of course) to verify a signature, including verifying the validity of the signature certificate, etc, then presents to the user a very-easy-to-understand conclusion (with notes, if you want to know the details). <p> <p>This is how a signature software should be. I've seen in the past, softwares that required users to jump through hoops to do the work. <p> <p>A 5-star recommendation!

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• Best signature software!

  karl_kantorFebruary 3, 2007

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  The best signature software I can find! I really recommend it. Best security feature, best overall functionalities. <p> <p>Just try it. The trial version has all the functions you need. It's free too.

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