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

by The Guru

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

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

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

by The Guru

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.

Reader Question: Synchronizing Microsoft Outlook inboxes

by The Guru

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.

Click through for the full article.

Reader Question: Type Once, Repeat Many?

by The Guru

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.

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

by The Guru

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!).

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

by The Guru

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.

Click through for a link to the full article.

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.

Click through for a link to the full illustrated post.

Don’t miss that important Microsoft Outlook email!

by The Guru

If you want special alerts for important emails – messages from a particular sender or with certain text in the subject, for example – then you’ll want to know how to set up Rules in Outlook. The Rules feature can examine your incoming mail and alert you to anything that you’ve told it is important, either with a special sound, a flag, or a pop-up box. Click through for the full illustrated tutorial.

When just the page number won’t do

by The Guru

When 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.

Weekly Roundup: Double-double emails from Gmail

by The Guru

In this week’s Roundup, stop getting double “sent” emails when synchronizing your Gmail account with Outlook with this tip. And if you hate spam, then stop encouraging it by taking these three basic precautions (they really do work). Click through for links to the full articles.

Reader question: Page number macro misfire

by The Guru

A Legal Office Guru reader has an “insert page number” macro that works just fine … until he logs off. How I solved his dilemma.

How to do a Table of Authorities, Part 1: Marking citations

by The Guru

If 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.

How to modify a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word

by The Guru

If 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.

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