AdvanceTo Legal and Corporate Word Processing Training

MS Word Legal and Corporate - Auto Means Something Else… Scenario :  The Secretary has a cover page.  She has 5 lines centered.  Hard return after each line.  They wish to have zero space between the lines that are vertically centered as well as horizontally centered.  When she goes to Format, Paragraph, it says  Auto  next to “ Before and After .”  Still, we have space between the lines. Let’s solve the first issue and  then I will show you a better way to go about the same thing which would be the way it would be handled in most larger firms. First issue :  When the secretary sees “ Auto ” under Format , Paragraph , Before and After ,  it means 0.6  for both Before and After (1/2 line), which is why they still have space between the lines.  Once the Auto was changed to Zero (0), under Before and After , the lines tightened up as needed.   How I would do it :  They had a 5 line Cover Page.  Between each l...

  MS Word Legal and Corporate – So You Are a New Secretary and/or a New Administrative Assistant Volumes 1-4 I was always lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to work in top tier firms for many years.  I took any position that would  allow me to get a foot in the door. Well, I have been a Secretary/Para, Corporate trainer, outsourcing trainer, trainer for the public, Document Services Coordinator even lead operator at certain times and in order to gain my knowledge in top tier legal firms, I had to go through a lot of trial by fire.   When I look back at how I acquired my knowledge, it was not always under the most calm of circumstances.  Much of the time, we had never come across or dealt with the material that is in this 4 volume compilation.  What a major advantage I would have had, if I had had the chance to have become familiar with the jargon and procedures that are throughly and comfortably covered in the 4 books.  When I was a beginn...

MS Word Legal and Corporate – So You Are a New Secretary and/or a New Administrative Assistant Volumes 1-3 I was always lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to work in top tier firms for many years.  I took any position that would  allow me to get a foot in the door. Well, I have been a Secretary/Para, Corporate trainer, outsourcing trainer, trainer for the public, Document Services Coordinator even lead operator at certain times and in order to gain my knowledge in top tier legal firms, I had to go through a lot of trial by fire.   When I look back at how I acquired my knowledge, it was not always under the most calm of circumstances.  Much of the time, we had never come across or dealt with the material that is in the first 3 volumes of this 3 volume compilation.  What a major advantage I would have had, if I had had the chance to have become familiar with the jargon and procedures that are throughly and comfortably covered in the 3 books.  Whe...

  MS Word Legal and Corporate – So You Are a New Secretary and/or a New Administrative Assistant Volumes 1-3 I was always lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to work in top tier firms for many years.  I took any position that would  allow me to get a foot in the door. Well, I have been a Secretary/Para, Corporate trainer, outsourcing trainer, trainer for the public, Document Services Coordinator even lead operator at certain times and in order to gain my knowledge in top tier legal firms, I had to go through a lot of trial by fire.   When I look back at how I acquired my knowledge, it was not always under the most calm of circumstances.  Much of the time, we had never come across or dealt with the material that is in the first 3 volumes of this 3 volume compilation.  What an advantage I would have had, if I had had the chance to have become familiar with the jargon and procedures that are throughly and comfortably covered in the 3 books.  W...

AdvanceTo Offers Tailor Made Classes For Your Area of The Law — For You Individually, or Your Group!   Scenario :  I work in the Litigation Department.  I work in the Corporate Sector of Legal.  I don’t need a full class, but I would like to take a class that covers those procedures having to do with my area of the law. Depending on the area of law you work within, we can tailor make a class that would clear up a number of issues.  Classes can be very small or large makes no difference.  We get results and all classes include homework which we critique for you. For instance, a Specialty class for a Litigation Paralegal, Secretary or WP Operator might take the form of documents dealing with everything related from Table of Authorities to Caption Boxes Footnoting, and lots more.  For those people dealing with Corporate Law, a tailor made class might take the form of Cover Pages to Cross References, Multilevel Outlines and lots more. For Non Legal class, ...

  Yes, There Are Two More Sections Now In The Document! Scenario :  An attorney says can you please print out  Exhibit B .  Before the secretary ran the  Index of Terms,  this Exhibit was  Section (5) .  She went to  File ,  Print  and asked for  S5  but the printer kept printing out the  main part of the document .  The attorney kept telling her “I just want Exhibit B and I have to get on this phone call.”  She kept saying that I am sending Exhibit B to print and I don’t know why it keeps giving me the main part… You know, it's those little facts that make a difference between knowing MS word and "knowing" MS Word. I wrote a short piece a while ago on " Section Printing ".  Here is a portion  from the article. "Each piece of a large document will have its  own separate section . The main part of the document, will have its own section (usually Section 3), the cover page that is vertical align...