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MS Word Legal: The Strategy Session Volume 2

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MS Word Legal:  The Strategy Session Volume 2 Getting Ready and Structure First:  Clearing up those Issues From The Very Start That Tend To Hold Us Back… Clearing up the very thing that confuses most new MS Word users that is of course Page Numbering and Section Breaks!  I wrote this book only a few years ago but it holds up fine and our students use these methods every day! I teach for the public, top-tier legal firms, outsource legal staff, large corporations and I consistently see one thing that they all have in common: They do not have a routine that they use before they ever start editing a document.  Also, they do not have a routine that they use to properly segment, page number and title all items relating to structure.  This is across the board.  This book goes over these routines piece by piece and this is the same vital and unique info that I personally share with my students including many inside tips that are used in top-tier firms.  Below...

MS Word Legal and Corporate – So You Are a New Secretary and/or a New Administrative Assistant Volume 1.

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Thank you for contemplating the purchase of  MS Word Legal and Corporate  –  So You Are a New Secretary and/or a New Administrative Assistant Volume 1 . Being a new secretary or administrative assistant is an important milestone. There is much to learn, and you will learn! My job with this book series is to fill you in thoroughly so that you do not have to literally learn everything from scratch. I am about to expose you to a lot of the day-to-day basics, and I want you to be in a position whereby you start to recognize these daily tasks and know how to go about them. I guarantee you that you will receive a ton of useful on-point information as to many daily tasks. You will also have a full-blown letter that we go through paragraph by paragraph, and I will supply you with the letter so you can do it along with me. If you think this book is thorough, just wait until you see Volume 2. The preceding line of books that we recently released is called " A Walk in the Center Vol...

Awareness Explosion Volume 5 - The Finale:

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Awareness Explosion Volume 5 - The Finale: This is the last and final volume for the Awareness Explosion Series. Like the other 4 volumes, it covers a tremendous amount of ground and insight . You can wait 10 years and thousands of hours of situational events to occur to you or you can read this series and gain invaluable insight, new found knowledge, strategy and judgment experience now!  This book alone will add a chuck of knowledge to your already existing experience. https://a.co/d/09wCTOj7 Who would benefit from this series?  •Secretaries who are sick of being in the dark on so many vital issues and need solid, easy to understand explanations.  •People who want to study for a Legal Hands On MS Word Test and want their awareness level to be sharp. •The Word Processing Operator who might be new to the legal field and wants to up their game significantly in a short period of time .•Finally, the IT Help Desk or Lead Operator personnel that can use this series of books a...

MS Word Legal and Corporate - Draft Vs. Print Layout - What You See and What You Don’t…

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MS Word Legal and Corporate - Draft Vs. Print Layout - What You See and What You Don’t… Left Side Style Panel: As a lot of you know, we like to operate in Draft View because the left side tracking panel lets us know what style is attached to each piece of text in the document.  We turn that on under File, Options, Advanced, Display, Style Area Pane 1 inch .  When you switch over to Print Layout, you don’t see your Left Side Tracking.  But your right side style panel will tell you what style your cursor is on at the moment or you can also load your “Style Box” on your Quick Access Toolbar or you can bring up your “Apply Styles Toolbar” (Control Shift S), which will also let you know the particular style your cursor is on at the moment. Headers and Footers: We know that when we set Headers or Footers we go to “Insert Header or Footer” set up the header or footer and then exit out of the Header/Footer toolbar.  When in Draft View, the Headers/Footers are not visible, bu...

MS Office Legal and Corporate - Batch Printing

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  MS Office Legal and Corporate - Batch Printing Scenario :  The attorney has asked the secretary to print all of the files that are in a zip folder that he had sent to her email.  She downloaded the zip folder and copied the zip folder to her desktop right clicked and extracted the folder.  There were 30 files in the folder and she was wondering if she had to print in at a time.  Let’s go over how she could handle the request using MS Word. Methods for Batch Printing Word Documents Windows File Explorer (Fastest): Go to the folder containing the Word documents that you have been asked to print. If you have “15 or less” files you can do Ctrl+A  (to grab all 15), or hold  Ctr, while clicking on the files you wish to print let us say 5 at a time. Right-click on any selected file(s) and select  Print . Note: This works best for 15 files or fewer, as the option may disappear with more files. Merge into One Document (Large Batches):  Not crazy abo...

MS Office Legal and Corporate - Editing text in Footnotes Easily

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MS Office Legal and Corporate - Editing text in Footnotes Easily Scenario :  The secretary is working on a document with a lot of footnotes.  The attorney has given her a heavy markup which includes a lot of edits to the separate footnotes that reside at the bottom of each page.  There are about 70 footnotes in total. She asked if there is a faster way to plough through the editing of the footnotes as soon as she gets the edits in the regular part of the document done . Okay to start out with some basics:  We can edit footnotes directly in Print Layout view in Word by clicking on the footnote text at the bottom of the page and making your edits.  But there is a better way to go about this: When in Draft View :  Go to your “ References ” tab and look at the left side of the ribbon.  Look for “ Show Notes ”.  It acts as a toggle .  Click it on and all of your footnotes will be displayed at the bottom of your screen one after another.   Th...