For this week’s Roundup: how to put zeroes in otherwise blank cells in Excel (and not the long way, either), how to pick and choose which formatting marks Word shows you with Show/Hide, and a heads-up on some hefty discounts on several Outlook plug-ins.
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If you’ve ever seen full-justified text in Microsoft Word that had a really stretched out last line in a paragraph, you don’t have to throw up your hands and convert it to left-justified text. There’s a quick and easy fix. Click through for the video demonstration.
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If you ever want to insert a table in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010, there are four (count ‘em, FOUR) ways to do it. Click the Read More link for detailed instructions, then pick your favorite!
Read MorePart II of the continuing series on Tables of Authorities shows you – with video and screen shots – how to:
(a) Check over your citations for correct marking
(b) Insert the TOA in your document
(c) What formatting options are available to you (passim, dot leaders, etc.) and how to adjust them
(d) What to do if your TOA headings or entries aren’t formatting just right
Click the “Read More” link below for the full tutorial.
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A Legal Office Guru reader wrote in, asking for help with some forms she’d been asked to create to . “Is there a way to autopopulate a field?” she asked. “I’d like it to work similar to Adobe [Acrobat], where if you give the fields the same name, the text in one will automatically fill up in all of the others. I’ve read something about making each field an REF field, but I don’t understand how to do it, and I’ve tried tons of Google search results. Can you help?”
To achieve that Adobe-like effect, I’d choose Word’s Bookmarks feature. Click the “Read More” link below for the full illustrated tutorial.
Read MoreWhen you have to have a page number formatted with text (like “C-1 of 3″), then you need a working knowledge of how to insert the various page number fields in Microsoft Word. Here’s a tutorial using a real-life situation: an appellate brief with a specially numbered “Certificate of Interested Parties” section.
Read MoreIf the thought of doing a Table of Authorities in your next brief gives you the willies, you’ll appreciate this series of posts. In Part One, I tell you a little about the Table of Authorities feature and show you how to mark citations in your brief so they can be included (and correctly formatted) in your Table of Authorities.
Read MoreIf your automatically-generated Table of Contents in Microsoft Word isn’t to your liking, you can fix it. From changing fonts to adjusting spacing and indentation, it’s all about modifying the TOC Styles within your document. Click through to view the entire tutorial, complete with screen shots showing each step.
Read MoreThis week’s Roundup of Microsoft Office tips from other blogs: better signature lines, where the heck Outlook’s Out of Office is hiding, and some shortcut key love from South Africa.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreThere’s more to selecting a block of text – to copy, delete, or format – than just dragging your mouse from one end to another. Click through to read about more text selection tricks that can make document editing easier (including how to copy vertical columns of data in Microsoft Word documents).
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In this guest post at Lawyerist, I explain how to save your most frequently used commands on the Quick Access Toolbar and/or in a keyboard shortcut key. Click through for a link to the full post.
Read MoreIf 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.
Click through for a link to the full post.
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