Microsoft Word

The case of the shrunken comment balloon

by The Guru

Ever had one of your comment balloons in Microsoft Word suddenly shrink without warning and become unreadable? Admittedly, it’s a pretty obscure problem, but if it ever happens to you, you want to make note of this fix.

Weekly Roundup: Outlook Quick Steps and Best Practices, disappearing Word headers

by The Guru

In this week’s Roundup: doing the Quick Step in Microsoft Outlook, what to do when your Microsoft Word headers suddenly disappear, and Microsoft’s Outlook blog finishes up its “Best Practices” series.

Reader Question: The macro that won’t save

by The Guru

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.

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

by The Guru

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.

Four ways to insert tables in Microsoft Word

by The Guru

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!

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

Weekly Roundup: Signature lines, Out of Office, shortcut keys

by The Guru

This 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.

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