Occasionally, you need to present information in a form other than paragraphs. Whether it’s a set of numbers or other obviously tabular data, or if you’re just looking to get the alignment of something just right, tables can help.
As usual in Microsoft Word (and most software programs), there’s more than one way to insert a table into your document:
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Once you reach an intermediate level of facility with Microsoft Word, you’ll want to start using headers and footers to do more advanced formatting. Sure, you can insert page numbers from the Insert menu, but what if you want to put the page number and the document name and the date/time stamp on the bottom of every page?
That’s where learning about headers and footers comes in handy.
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If you’re anything like me, one of the things you really hate is having to move paragraphs around in a long pleading (like a set of discovery requests). Fortunately, if you know your way around Microsoft Word’s Bullets & Numbers feature, at least you won’t have to renumber every paragraph by hand.
Using Bullets & Numbers’ pre-defined formats is very easy. The easiest way is to use the buttons on the Formatting Toolbar:
This gives you the basic, standard format. But what if you want some other format?
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Super easy — here’s how you do left-justify, right-justify, center, and full-justify in Microsoft Word (either with your mouse or your keyboard).
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One question I get asked a lot is, “What’s the best way to convert an existing WordPerfect document into Word?”
There are a lot of ways of doing this — some better than others. Here, I rate the choices from worst to best.
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Here’s the video tutorial I promised showing exactly why Block Protect can mess up your pagination seemingly beyond repair:
Click here to read more …
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The most common complaint I hear from legal professionals who’ve started using Word is, “I miss Reveal Codes!”
Yes, that ALT-F3 command was genius. No doubt about it.
But what most users don’t know is there’s something similar in Word. In some ways, it’s better. (Intrigued?)
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While this isn’t a common need in law offices, it’s such a cool trick, I just had to share.
Have you ever seen a sentence that started with “Lorem ipsum …”? That’s placeholder text that web and print designers use to show how text will be formatted in a document. And it’s easy to insert automatically in Word.
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Ever wish you could take a pdf that someone’s e-filed and edit it for your own use? (Yeah, me too.)
Well, apparently now you can at PDFtoWord.com … for free, even!
Only you can decide whether this service is safe enough for confidential client documents. PDFtoWord.com’s privacy policy states that files that are uploaded and converted are deleted immediately upon processing and never touch human hands.
But if you don’t want to re-type, and you like free services, you can’t beat this!
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