Guest Posts

Guest post @ Lawyerist: Creating and Sharing Custom Microsoft Word Styles

by The Guru

As a follow-up to my Using Microsoft Word Styles post on Lawyerist, I go one step further and teach you how to create new Styles and share them with others in your office. If you’ve ever thought about creating a set of standard forms (pleadings, letters, etc.) for use by everyone in your workgroup or office, this post contains some critical information about how the interaction between Styles and Templates in Microsoft Word.

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Guest post @ Lawyerist: Using Microsoft Word Styles

by The Guru

How my recent “primer” on Microsoft Word’s Styles feature over on the Lawyerist blog has turned into a series … and how your documents can benefit.

Guest Post @ Attorney at Work – Handy Keyboard Tricks

by The Guru

If typing speed is important to you, you want to minimize the amount of time you spend reaching for the mouse to access common commands like font formatting, paragraph justification, etc. Learn a few critical hotkeys (key combinations that give you instant access to commands you’d otherwise have to click through the menu system to use), and your typing speed (and productivity) can increase dramatically.

Microsoft Word’s got tons of hotkeys, but over on the Attorney at Work blog, I’ve listed what I think are some of the most important for increasing your typing and editing speed. Memorize two or three of these at a time, use them enough to make them second-nature, then go back to the list to pick up a couple more.

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