Lawyers Right Hand http://www.lawyersrighthand.com Tips on career, excellence and work/life balance for legal secretaries Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:19:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Adding form fields to a PDF with Acrobat Standard http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/adding-form-fields-to-a-pdf-with-acrobat-standard.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/adding-form-fields-to-a-pdf-with-acrobat-standard.htm#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:45:54 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=203

Acrobat Professional is a great program that lets you turn any PDF into a fillable form and print it, easy peasy. Does the court only provide that form one way — as a non-fillable PDF? No problem. You can fix…

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This tip is for Microsoft Outlook 2003…

]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/docketing-with-outlook-2003-part-1-let-microsoft-outlook-calculate-dates-for-you.htm/feed 0 How to help your boss cut airport security wait times http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/how-to-help-your-boss-cut-airport-security-wait-times.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/how-to-help-your-boss-cut-airport-security-wait-times.htm#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:52:14 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=305 Is your attorney chronically late getting to the airport, or does she just hate waiting in the security line? There’s a way you can help.

The TSA has a Web page where you can find real-time estimated airport wait times. By checking…

]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/how-to-help-your-boss-cut-airport-security-wait-times.htm/feed 0 Don’t worry. Be happy – How to have a Good Work day http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/don%e2%80%99t-worry-be-happy-how-to-have-a-good-work-day.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/don%e2%80%99t-worry-be-happy-how-to-have-a-good-work-day.htm#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:46:48 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=321 Productivity blog Achieve-IT offers these 10 Ways to Have a Happy Workday. Some are conventional wisdom, others are more original, but they’re all good.

My faves:

8. Avoid gossip – One drain on your day is gossip. It may seem fun and…

]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/don%e2%80%99t-worry-be-happy-how-to-have-a-good-work-day.htm/feed 0 Anonymously review your current and past bosses, why eBossWatch is a Good Thing http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/anonymously-review-your-current-and-past-bosses-why-ebosswatch-is-a-good-thing.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/anonymously-review-your-current-and-past-bosses-why-ebosswatch-is-a-good-thing.htm#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:01:44 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=329

Thinking about the new site, eBossWatch, brings to mind an experience I had a few years ago while job-hunting. By knowing the former assistant of my prospective new boss well enough for her to be really straight with me, I escaped…

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Usually, when you perform a Google search, you’re looking for specific information, and you don’t want to see Web pages that contain duplicate content. Google realizes this, so, by default, it filters out repetitive results.

But, occasionally, you won’t want that…

]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/research-keep-google-from-filtering-out-duplicate-results.htm/feed 0 Microsoft Word: Use the Normal.dot template to change your default margins, fonts, and more http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-word-use-the-normaldot-template-to-change-your-default-margins-fonts-and-more.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-word-use-the-normaldot-template-to-change-your-default-margins-fonts-and-more.htm#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:33:55 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=325

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 give you fits? Well,…

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Productivity blog Lifehack offers this piece on How to Find Time for Yourself. It’s a comprehensive list of things we should be doing for ourselves and how to make the time for them. One of my favorites:

Driving in Your Car. Make the…

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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 they can make my…

]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-word-make-documents-more-dynamic-with-hyperlinks.htm/feed 0 Stop pen theft and decorate your desk, too. http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/stop-pen-theft-and-decorate-your-desk-too.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/stop-pen-theft-and-decorate-your-desk-too.htm#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 14:36:06 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=153 Is your favorite pen always missing from your pen cup, just because someone happened to be passing by and thought they needed it more than you did? What legal secretary doesn’t have this problem?

Those geniuses at Lifehacker have come up…

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