Advanced MS Word for Legal Professionals

The first issue legal users of Microsoft Word will encounter is that its default settings aren’t suitable for the purposes of a law office. The first half of this seminar will teach you how to customize Word’s interface, formatting, and automations to ensure they’re assisting you, rather than complicating your tasks.

The first half of this seminar will teach you helpful ways to edit and proof documents. It will cover new features for document review, advanced copy and paste techniques, the different ways to use find and replace, and additional uses of AutoCorrect.

The first half of the seminar will teach you automation techniques you can use every day to speed up drafting. It will cover font formatting tips and ways to control headers and footers to get the formatting you want. It will address advanced page numbering techniques so that you can change the formats of the page numbering and start over at “pg. 1” anywhere in the document.

This seminar will teach you helpful tips for creating tables of contents and tables of authority. It will cover how to generate tables of contents from the styles used in your document and how to control the formatting using table of contents’ styles. It will address how to establish your categories of citations in tables of authorities and how to “tag” a citation, so it’s pulled into a table of authorities.