Ever get tired of creating the same document type, over and over, from scratch? Then don’t. Build a template instead. A template will have all the basic elements of your document in it (a signature block, a custom header/footer, whatever you need), saving you repetitive effort every time you create a new document.
What’s that? You don’t know how to create a template? You’re in luck. I’m about to build one for myself. And I’ll even let you watch over my shoulder while I do it.
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If you’ve ever typed a really long set of discovery answers/objections, you’ve seen language like this:
“[Party] objects to this request on the grounds that it is vague, ambiguous, immaterial, irrelevant, not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence …”
In fact, every attorney I know has his/her own boilerplate discovery objections — full paragraphs containing every possible objection one can make to a discovery request.
You don’t want to type that over and over and over again for 37 different discovery requests, do you?
Good. I don’t want you to, either. So I’m going to show you how to get out of it. Without quitting your job.
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If you want to be able to track what changes have been made to a document, then you want to use the Word feature called (big surprise here) Track Changes.
Here’s a little tutorial on how to turn on Track Changes in Word 2002 and 2003, plus some notes about the feature’s little quirks you’ll want to watch out for.
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One of the things I’m on a rant about these days is loooooong documents. Complicated documents, like 20+ page contracts and appellate briefs and stuff like that.
Why? Because they always seem to need special stuff inserted in them. Like custom headers and footers. And level-1 and level-2 and level-out-the-wazoo headings. It’s enough to make your head spin.
But if you’ve got mad skills and you plan your document right, a lot of this stuff becomes easier. Like putting in a table of contents, for example.
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Have you ever been typing along and looked back at what you just typed and discovered that something weird happened? Like, you typed a few dashes, hit return, and suddenly there’s a solid line all the way across the page?
There’s more than one possible explanation for these kinds of oopsies (none of them your fault, fortunately), so there’s more than one fix. Today, we’re going to talk about setting your AutoFormat options.
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Inserting comments with Track Changes
by WordGuru · 3 comments
in Word XP/2002,Word XP/2003
What if you (or your attorney) don’t want to actually change a particular section of a document, but just want to ask a question, point out a problem, just plain make a comment? Word’s Track Changes feature can help you do that.
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