Reader Question: The macro that won’t save

September 29, 2011
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One reader (an attorney) had a puzzling dilemma: he’d record macros, but they wouldn’t be there the next time he started Word. After a couple of suggestions didn’t solve the problem, we finally found one that did.

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Weekly Roundup: Outlook Autocomplete, When Excel Won’t Calc, etc.

September 26, 2011
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From this week’s reading: when Outlook’s Autocomplete … won’t, when Excel’s autocalc … doesn’t, cleaning up imported data in Excel, and what to do with 250 Vcards. Click through for links to the full articles

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Document Cleanup Clinic: The Case of the Stretched-Out Line

September 24, 2011
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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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Four ways to insert tables in Microsoft Word

September 21, 2011
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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!

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Weekly Roundup: Bates-stamping in Adobe Acrobat, Sync-ing Outlook Redux

September 19, 2011
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From this week’s reading file: Legal Office Guru readers weigh in on Outlook sync, how to organize your email with folders (courtesy of Microsoft’s Outlook blog), and a killer resource you do not want to miss on using Adobe Acrobat X to Bates-stamp your documents. Click the Read More link below for links to the full posts.

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Guest Post @ Lawyerist: Organize Matters using Microsoft Outlook Tasks

September 16, 2011
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If you’re looking to use Outlook to help organize your client matters but are clueless about where to start, I’ve got you covered over at Lawyerist. In my guest post called “Organize Matters Using Microsoft Outlook,” I show you (step by step with screen shots and detailed instructions) how to:

* Use Outlook’s Tasks feature to keep track of your to-do’s
* Organize your Tasks by client/matter/file using Categories
* Embed important information in your Tasks, like Word documents or Outlook v-cards with contact info

Click the “Read More” link below for a link to the full tutorial.

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How to do a Table of Authorities, Part 2: Defining, Formatting and Inserting the TOA

September 15, 2011
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Part 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

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Weekly Roundup: Printing sections, moving text blocks, turning off annoying Paste options

September 12, 2011
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For this week’s Roundup: How to print a Word document by section numbers, an easier way to move text around in Microsoft Word, a few Outlook add-ins to consider, and how to turn off that incredibly annoying Paste box that pops up every time you cut and paste text. Click the “Read More” link for more information and for links to the full articles.

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Reader Question: Synchronizing Microsoft Outlook inboxes

September 9, 2011
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If you’ve got Microsoft Outlook on both your work and home computers, and you want to receive all your email both places, it’s, um, complicated. After trying one solution (one that works fine for synching smartphone/webmail and Outlook, but not Outlook to Outlook on two computers), I find a whole slew of third-party applications designed just for this purpose.

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Reader Question: Type Once, Repeat Many?

September 6, 2011
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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.

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Weekly Roundup: Finding ‘Find’, 5 formatting shortcuts, and tricked-out TOCs

September 5, 2011
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In this week’s Roundup, friend-of-this-blog Vivian Manning finds the now-hidden “Find” feature in Word 2010, and Susan Harking at TechRepublic gathers together the handiest shortcut keys for formatting and shows us how to create a Table of Contents from multiple documents (yes! it’s possible!).

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Guest Post @ Attorney at Work: Give Final Documents a Good Scrubbing

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If you send documents out for review electronically, this guest post I’ve done over at Attorney at Work is a must-read. It’s a checklist of actions you need to make sure you’ve taken prior to attaching a document to an email and hitting the “Send” button. Before you start that next round of revisions, read through this and familiarize yourself with Microsoft Word’s security settings designed to combat potentially compromising metadata.

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

September 1, 2011
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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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