How Out of Office can keep the judge off your case
In the Age of the Crackberry, when everybody expects you to be always available, it’s important to let people known when you aren’t. Here’s how to use Microsoft Outlook’s Out of Office feature.
Configuring Rules in Microsoft Outlook to automate message handling
Microsoft Outlook Inbox management is a lot easier when you use Rules & Alerts to automate common tasks. Here’s a video tutorial showing you how.
Stop repeating yourself – build a Microsoft Word template
If you have a Microsoft Word document type you produce frequently, why don’t you save a stripped-down version of it as a template? It will save you time in creating future document. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial.
How to redirect a reply in Outlook
If you send an email to a large list, the last thing you want is someone hitting “Reply to All.” Prevent a disaster with these two tricks in Microsoft Outlook.
Inserting a table of contents using styles
Building a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word is ridiculously easy if you use Styles to format your document headings. Here’s the quick-and-dirty tutorial on inserting an easy TOC in your document.
Using sections to control page numbers, headers and footers
This is part two of a tutorial on how to control page numbers and page number formats using sections in Microsoft Word 2002-2003. Useful for changing page number styles in appellate briefs or for having distinct headers and footers in different parts of a document.
Using and configuring AutoFormat As You Type
Ever wonder why your straight quote characters get replaced by those curly ones in Word? Or why the “st” in “1st” gets superscripted automatically? Here’s the skinny on Microsoft Word’s AutoFormat As You Type feature … and how you can customize it.
How to reconfigure AutoCorrect to NOT drive you crazy
Ever type “(c)” in Microsoft Word and somehow mysteriously get a copyright symbol? Here’s how to fix that.
Copying formats using Format Painter
Here’s how to use the Format Painter button to copy formats from one block of text to another in Microsoft Word.
Using and formatting columns in Microsoft Word
How to insert multiple columns into your Microsoft Word document, plus navigating between columns and starting-and-stopping columns mid-document.
Taming naughty footnotes, pt. 1
Have a footnote in Microsoft Word 2007 that keeps dropping down to a subsequent page? Here’s how to fix it.
Using Styles & Formatting
Got a brief or other long document? Ensure consistent formatting throughout with Microsoft Word’s Styles & Formatting feature.
Basic headers and footers
For text that repeats at the top or bottom of every page in Microsoft Word, use headers and footers. Here’s a basic tutorial.
Line justification (a.k.a. paragraph alignment)
Here’s how you do left-justify, right-justify, center, and full-justify in Microsoft Word (either with your mouse or your keyboard).
Converting WordPerfect docs to Word
Having trouble converting your current WordPerfect documents into Word? Here are four ways to get your documents into the new format.
So, you miss Reveal Codes in WordPerfect?
Word has a nifty replacement for WordPerfect’s Reveal Codes feature. Find out about it here.
Indenting paragraphs
Whether you need to simply indent a paragraph a bit on the left, or need to create a double-indented quote or a hanging indent, the Format Paragraph function in Microsoft Word is what you’ll need.
Block protect – why two types & what’s the diff?
In Microsoft Word, there are two different types of block protect (a.k.a. pagination control) beyond Widow/Orphan. Here’s an explanation of which is which.
Creating watermarks
How to place a watermark on every page in Microsoft Word.
Automatic numbering makes exhibit dividers easy
Here’s an easy way to create exhibit separator pages in Microsoft Word without typing “Exhibit 1,” “Exhibit 2,” ad nauseum, using Field codes.
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