Switching from WordPerfect to Word? Don’t despair!
You love WordPerfect. Been using it for years. And you’ve gotten really good with it, too. You can produce beautifully formatted documents without breaking a sweat.
But like it or not, Microsoft Word has become the word processing standard. Your law firm’s clients use it, other law firms use it … heck, it seems everyone is using it.
It’s not fair, is it? You know from experience that WordPerfect is a much better word processor. But you can’t continue to struggle with Microsoft Word anymore. Something’s got to give.
Why that Word training you got was a waste of time
Oh, you’ve tried to learn Microsoft Word on your own. You took that all-day training class your firm offered, only to be so overwhelmed you forgot most of it by the time you got back to your desk.
Or, you bought a book. But you’re too busy actually working to read a manual. Or maybe you’ve searched for help online, only to find confusing and conflicting instructions.
You’re not the problem – the training is
You see, traditional ways of learning how to use software set you up to fail. Classroom instruction dumps too much information on you all at once. Most software manuals are reference books for experienced users, not instructions for beginners
And searching for help online? Forget it. Even a simple search brings back screen after screen of confusing (and often outright wrong) instructions.
What do they expect you to do?
You know you need to update your skills to do your job better. After all, it’s frustrating (and time-consuming) to struggle with even basic tasks in Microsoft Word. If only someone could take you by the hand and show you, step-by-step, how to translate your WordPerfect tasks to Microsoft Word.
I’ve been where you are
Hi, my name is Deborah Savadra (a.k.a. the Legal Office Guru). I’ve worked in and around law firms for over 20 years as a legal secretary, paralegal, and software trainer.
Like a lot of you, I started off with WordPerfect. Back when I began working in a law firm, WordPerfect was still in the DOS version. (Yes, I am that old!)
Geek that I am, I learned all sorts of ways to get the most out of WordPerfect. I had my “WordPerfect Function Key Claw” perfected, I programmed macros right and left, and when I wasn’t doing my own work, I was walking around helping the other staff with their WordPerfect challenges. I made WordPerfect sing!
But then came the day I left the legal field. In the “outside world,” they only used Microsoft Word. I was forced to adapt. I took classes, pored over software manuals, and generally figured it all out (often the hard way).
Fast forward a few years. After moving into software consulting and training, I found myself drawn back to working with law firms. And because I had so much Microsoft Word experience under my belt, I became the “go-to girl” for anyone still having trouble making the transition from WordPerfect (and trust me, a lot of folks are still struggling).
So I’ve seen (and heard) it all: the hair pulling, the fist pounding, and every other variation of “Word Rage.” I’ve been asked every question, seen every formatting foul-up, and performed major surgery on some seriously messed up Microsoft Word documents. (I’ve also stopped several people from throwing their computers out the window!)
I’ve made the leap to Word — and I can help you make it, too!
Of course, being the “Word expert-in-residence” in a law firm, I get a lot of the same questions over and over again. So, to keep from repeating myself, and to save a little time, I started a blog of Microsoft Office tutorials. That way, I could often refer people to a specific blog post (often with video) when they had a question. It made my expertise available when I wasn’t.
But blogs are, well, … disorganized by their very nature. What you need is a systematic, step-by-step way to learn Microsoft Word.
The solution? The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word!
I’ve taken the literally hundreds of quick tips I’ve written over the past three years (including detailed instructional videos) and organized them into an e-course: The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word.
This e-course, delivered by e-mail every few days, starts by teaching you the most basic tasks in Microsoft Word. With each e-mail you receive, you’ll get a link to a new lesson teaching you yet another critical Word skill.
Why this beats traditional Word training, hands down
This sort of bit-by-bit instruction mimics the way you naturally learn a new skill. After all, you didn’t start speaking in full sentences as a baby, did you? You started by imitating the sounds you heard your parents make. Then you gradually started forming whole words. Eventually, you strung those words into sentences.
That’s the way most people learn things – step-by-step. And that’s how The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word works, too. It presents you with one simple building block, then another, then another. With each lesson, you’re building your Microsoft Word skills gradually, naturally, and painlessly.
Just 5 minutes a day
Each lesson in The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word covers just one skill. That’s it. No information overload here! There’s no way you’ll get overwhelmed, because between each incremental lesson, you can take a few days to hone that skill — whenever it’s convenient for you — before your next lesson.
This time, you’ll learn Microsoft Word painlessly, because you’ll learn it the way you learn other skills naturally.
In less time than you spend fetching your daily coffee or opening your mail, The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word will help you:
- Spend less time struggling with your documents
- Reduce your frustration with Microsoft Word
- Save money you’d otherwise spend on expensive (but ineffective) training courses and books
Let me ask you …
If you could breeze through Microsoft Word every day, how much easier would your job (and your life) be?
How much less time would you spend on documents if you weren’t constantly asking yourself, “How do I do that in Word?”
How much extra time would you have to finish all the other things piling up on your desk?
How stress-free would your workday be if Word was just as easy as WordPerfect?
Try it free!
Before you spend a single dime on this course, I want you to be absolutely convinced it will help you.
That’s why I’m giving you the first five lessons FREE. These five lessons from the Basic course cover:
- Understanding the Microsoft Word Ribbon interface
- Creating and saving documents
- Editing existing documents
- Basic character, paragraph, and document formatting
- Printing your document and using Print Preview
You can’t lose!
If at any point during these first five lessons you decide The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word isn’t for you, you can simply unsubscribe from the course. All you have to do is click a link, and you’re done. No obligation. No more emails. And no cost.
But if you find, as others have, that The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word helps you learn Microsoft Word easily, naturally and painlessly, you can continue with the Intermediate and Advanced lessons after mastering the Basic course.
But free enrollment is limited
If you’ve been reading Legal Office Guru, you know I love answering reader questions. But there are only so many hours in a day!
And because I want to be sure every single person enrolled in The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word gets all the help he or she needs, free enrollment in the Basic course is limited to a small number of students. (I can only help so many people at once!)
So if you want to be notified when the course is open, click the Sign Me Up button below now. Don’t want to miss this opportunity — get on the Early Bird list now!