Lawyers Right Hand » MS Word http://www.lawyersrighthand.com Tutorials, tips on career, excellence and work/life balance for legal secretaries Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:22:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Microsoft Word: Goof-Proof and simplify complex documents in two easy steps http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-word-goof-proof-and-simplify-complex-documents-in-two-easy-steps.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-word-goof-proof-and-simplify-complex-documents-in-two-easy-steps.htm#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:05:22 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=129

Have you ever re-checked your table of contents page numbers, table of authorities page numbers, or cross-references in a complex Word document, only to find they weren’t quite right? One page number off here, a cross-reference

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Need to share that Word document with a WordPerfect user? Never fear: Rich Text Format is here.

While it is possible to open a Word document in WordPerfect or vice versa, most people don’t

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You really can capitalize — or de-capitalize — blocks of text at once with MS Word. Simply select the desired text and click Format, Change case. A small popup window will offer radio-button selections

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Are there changes you find yourself making to new Word documents all the time or nearly all the time? Does your lawyer like his letters in Arial rather than Times? Do those inch-and-a-quarter default side margins

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The power to create hyperlinks in Microsoft Word is, in my opinion, one of the greatest strides ever made in word processing technology. I use hyperlinks almost daily, and I’m still coming up with new ways

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Hosford Medical Terms Dictionary v3.0 is offered as a free text file that you can import into Word as a custom dictionary. (A voluntary donation of $3 is requested, and is probably worth it if you

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Data recovery application provider Ease Us offers this comprehensive article on locating a deleted or lost Word document. I’ve never seen all this information in one place before, so it’s worth bookmarking and/or printing

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