If you’re using standard mailing labels from a major vendor (like Avery), formatting and printing your labels is a snap (once you know how).

In this bonus lesson for the WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word, I’ll show you how to format and print envelopes. In fact, I’m going to show you not only the “textbook” way of doing envelopes, but my own preferred method, which I think makes creating an on-the-fly envelope (on pre-printed letterhead) a lot easier (but that’s for you to judge).

Before you send out that document, you need to be sure it’s truly ready to go. Here’s how you run (and customize) Spelling and Grammar Check, remove metadata (particularly important if you’re going to email your document), preview the print layout to catch last-minute formatting snafus, and print your document.

If you completed the first unit in this course, you know that there are two basic formats of Pleading Paper: Armed with this knowledge (and your familiarity with your court’s particular requirements), you’ve chosen which template to start with. But it needs adjusting, doesn’t it? So here in Part 2, I’m going to show you…

I’ve gotten a fair number of questions from readers about how to format pleadings with line numbers down the left, commonly known as Pleading Paper. Typically, they sound something like this:

“My text never quite lines up exactly with the numbers on the pleading paper. What’s the trick??”

“PLEASE work on the pleadings template! I’m sure I and many others would pay bonuses for your guidance.”

“Pleading paper instructions would be fantastic! I mostly work in California state and federal courts, and our office just reuses old documents to keep the pleading paper formatting. Unfortunately this brings along a host of other formatting issues, and while I’d love to be able to start from scratch I don’t know how. Any help you could give would be terrific, thank you!!”

“I am not sure of the technical name for it, but years ago law firms had stationery with double lines on left side of a page and one line on the right. I know Word can duplicate it, but I don’t how to add them or what it is called. I will try the [pleading paper] template, but is there a way to remove the page numbering on the side?”

“I wish WORD was like WordPerfect in that we could just add the pleading format into the document after the document is completed. Anyway, if you could help me figure this out it would be great. I recently added [a plug-in] to Word/Office which provides a host of automated functions, like cite checking, quote check, and table of authorities, which would make finalizing a brief a breeze. However, if I can’t get out of the WordPerfect format for my brief writing, I don’t see where all these extra functions will benefit me.”

Okay, okay, I get it, I get it! Clearly, my standard reply (which I used so often that I actually created an entry in Quick Parts in Outlook for it) isn’t getting the job done. So, while I would love to create a custom template (like I did for that last person above) for each and every one of you, there just aren’t enough hours in the day!

So, in lieu of becoming a template factory, I’m going to show you how to make some common adjustments to those musty old Microsoft templates (either the 25-line one or the 28-line one) all by yourself. And if you don’t see your particular question addressed in this series, by all means leave it in the comments at the bottom, and I’ll add the answer.

Now that we’ve gotten to page formatting in this series, take a moment to pat yourself on the back a bit. After all, you’ve learned quite a bit so far — how to get around in Microsoft Word’s Ribbon interface, how to open and navigate in existing documents, how to create and save new documents,…

You don’t need me to tell you what a paragraph is — it’s a block of text that ends with a “hard return” you insert by pressing the Enter key. In Microsoft Word, paragraph formatting covers such attributes as justification, indentation, line spacing, and what WordPerfect calls “block protect” (called something else by Word, but…

Changing various font attributes, like font name, size, bold/italic/underline, special effects like superscript and strikethrough, and changing text case.

The basics of opening and editing a Microsoft Word document.

How to create a new document in Microsoft Word and save it as a .docx file or in other word processing formats.

Navigating in a Microsoft Word document is very much like navigating in any word processing program in Microsoft Windows, including WordPerfect. This lesson in the WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word shows you how to move around in a Word document using your keyboard and mouse.

An introduction to the Microsoft Word Ribbon interface.