Advanced Editing and Proofing, and the Word Feature You Must Understand Above All Others
Presented By the CT Bar Institute
About the Program
Nearly everyone working in an office has some experience with Microsoft Word, but learning and mastering the program’s more advanced features and settings can markedly improve your productivity and greatly decrease the time it takes you to create and finalize documents.
During this four part series covering different elements of Word, Attorney Barron K. Henley will draw from his decades of experience in legal technology, sharing the vital skills needed to utilize the word processor to its fullest potential. He will teach how to optimize Word’s settings, take advantage of its keyboard shortcuts, eliminate document formatting difficulties, and more.
For each seminar, participants will also receive relevant portions of a written guide on Microsoft Word, developed by Attorney Henley’s firm. Join us for one or more of these seminars and develop the expertise of a Microsoft Word power user.
Part II: Advanced Editing and Proofing, and the Word Feature You Must Understand Above All Others
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 second half of the seminar focuses on Styles - the Word feature you must understand above all others. It will cover how to customize any style, so it produces the formatting you want and how to identify what style is applied to anything in your document. It will also cover the role styles play in tables of contents and tables of authorities.
You Will Learn
• When different views are helpful and how to view two sections of a document simultaneously.
• How to use one of Word’s most useful features – Format Painter.
• How to unlock and use Word’s 24 clipboards so you can store lots of text for easy insertion.
• To customize, hide, or copy any style so it produces the formatting you want.
• To identify what style is applied to anything in your document and ways to modify existing styles.
• The best feature for navigating or editing long documents, and how to control what appears in the navigation pane.
Who Should Attend
Attorneys and legal professionals interested in harnessing the power of MS Word to enhance their practice.
Cost
(Includes electronic materials)
Member $70
Student Member $30
Non-member $140
Financial hardship information is available upon request.
CT: 2.0 CLE Credits (General)
NY: 2.0 CLE Credits (LPM)
The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for newly admitted and experienced attorneys CLE credits.
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, a fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml.
If the seminar is recorded, all member registrants will receive complimentary access to the recording approximately six weeks after the program. Please note that refunds will not be granted once course materials have been sent. Cancellations made less than 2 business days prior to event are non-refundable.
Closed captioning will be available during the seminar presentation for virtual attendees.