AdvanceTo Legal and Corporate Word Processing Training

MS Office Legal and Corporate:  2 Hours of Solid “Ask Anything You Want”.  Take Care of a Lot of Loose Ends… We have offered “ Ask Anything You Want ” before and it was very helpful to those who took part.   You see, many people in our industry know a lot and have been exposed to a lot but nevertheless, have questions about the software that they need to have answered.  The questions usually involve a missing step but on many occasions, they involve going through a procedure from beginning to end.   This two hour session is a 1 on 1 or 2 on 1 at the most which includes narrative material to memorialize those questions that we went over and this will be provided to you post session .  You are the one who asks the questions.  Our job is to answer each question as thoroughly as we can.  You can ask one question or 10 questions.  It’s your choice. Don’t worry, we will also supply documents so that we have material to use as we go over each questi...

  No, The Document Is Not Corrupt... Scenario :  Secretary is asked to bring in a logo and a number of JPEG pictures for a brochure in MS Word.  The secretary does so and the pictures won't show on the screen. There is now a box like figure where the picture should have been.   1.  The secretary under some pressure, deleted the boxes and started again but got the same result. 2.  She was in Print Layout View.  To make matters worse, when she switched over to Draft View, she did not even have the box in place of the picture but instead a large gap where the picture would have been. 3.  She went to her help desk and they said that “ the pictures are showing under Draft and Print Layout View when they go to File - Print and look at the Preview ”.  They then said she should just print the file out for now. 4.  She really was not comfortable with the answer, but at least she could print the file and get the pictures in their intended location...

MS Office For Legal and Corporate Firms:  Classes and Courses to Help You To Advance Your Skill Level and Career AdvanceTo offers a litany of courses stemming from Basic-Advanced MS Office.   This includes MS Word, Power Point, Excel, Adobe Pro/Nuance, as well as Outlook .  The approach that we take provides you with courses that are fun, high value and the end result is that your skill level and understanding is substantially increased. If you are sitting at work and you are saying to yourself boy, I hope he/she doesn’t ask me to do that financial table, that set of cross references, those manipulations to the footnotes, that multilevel outline, that Index of Terms, that heavily marked up Track Changes related document, that set of Merge Letters then you need what we offer. Our training gives you the ability to have a deep and comfortable understanding of the material (MS Office) whether you are doing Litigation or Corporate related formatting and styling. We make sure w...

  Windows Operating System and MS Office Tips and Tricks.   New Release...  New Release...  New Release We have authored a number of books for operators, secretaries' paralegals and attorneys alike who work in law firms and corporate firms across the country. Although we train basic through advanced MS Office for legal and corporate firms, there are many aspects of Office as well as the Microsoft Operating System that most people never get the chance to be exposed to. This book will go over those items that most secretaries and word processing operators usually defer to the IT Group. The items that we will cover are  easy to use ,  easy to understand and will truly add  another major solid layer of knowledge  that will be of great value to you. This book will be  a true hybrid  of " Windows Operating System  and  Office related procedures " tips and tricks of the trade. I want you to know that many of the items contained in thi...

Two Shortcuts Related To Extended Highlighting - Selection Mode I have talked about the useful extended highlighting feature a number of times.  Before 2007, you would use the F8 key to turn it on or the " Ext " area of the status bar that no longer exists to turn it on or off. From 2007 onward, you can still use F8 to turn Extended Highlighting on but now it is also referred to in the Status Bar as " Selection Mode ".  You have the option to easily turn it on or off (in the “ Customize Status Bar Menu ) as well as using the ESC key. Either way, you can target specific areas of text for quick highlighting such as pressing the return key to highlight a PARAGRAPH at a time or another example would be pressing the period key to highlight a sentence at a time.  It highlights up to the first instance of whatever key or combo of keys you type .  PLAY WITH SELECTION MODE.  Once you get it it is way more stable that highlighting with only the mouse.   Remember : ...

  Section Printing - Target What You Need.   This feature has come to the rescue many a time when an attorney needs a particular piece of a large document right away. They want a particular piece of the document printed to go to a meeting with it, a conference call due and they just need a particular piece of the whole:  1.  If you do not have Section, Page and Formatted Page Number on in the Status Bar (Bottom Left of Page) you will have a harder time in determining the targeted area you wish to print.    Right click  on the Status Bar and place a check next to Section, Page and Formatted Page. 2. On large files, people tend to send the entire document to print. Then, they look for the requested piece amongst the many pages. 3. Some people misinterpret the page numbering system within the document 1,2,3 (the page numbering assigned to a particular portion of the document) etc. vs. Page 4 of 120 meaning the "system page count" for that document. T...

  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… Authored by Louis Ellman  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 a...

Documents and Libraries in DMS Systems.   Scenario :  I have been asked to do a Document Comparison whereby the earlier version of the document is using a document number for the name of the file 54327.3 (version 3) and the current version is sitting in 52785.4 (version 4).  The two separate documents are sitting on two separate servers , 1 being in the Los Angeles office (the earlier version) and one sitting in the New York Office (the latest version). The request is easy enough, but for those who are new to the industry, most medium and large firms make use of Document Management Systems (“DMS”), in order to properly store their voluminous documents.  Documents are easily retrieved by using a sequential numbering system and we simply put the document number associated with a particular document into the DMS software to retrieve our document.   On already existing documents, the document number will be placed in the footer of the document on the left side usual...

  “MS Word Legal – Formatting Scenarios Volumes 1 and  2.”  Don’t Wait Until the Scenario Actually Happens.  Know How To Handle Them Beforehand .. So with the release of  Formatting Scenarios Volume 2,  we have an additional 31 scenarios covering, MS Word, Power Point, Excel and Adobe situations.  The bulk of the book concentrates on MS Word and Power Point.  I give you a great workbook that lets you work on the exact same documents that were used to produce this latest book.  If you thought that Volume 1 was a thorough release you will see that Volume 2 is another major surge of insider methods and strategies that are employed by word processing operators at top-tier law firms. Take note that this is a “ Teacher Connected Book ” so you can reach out to me concerning any chapter and I will assist you. Any chapter in this book has been encountered by word processing operators and secretaries all over the world.  Information in this niche...

MS Word Legal and Corporate Training  - Short Term Training Equals Long Term Gains... We train legal and support staff at law firms of all sizes in person and by Zoom.  We also train outsource legal support staff who in turn service the top-tier legal firms.  Finally, we train the public as well and that takes the form of individuals as well as groups.  We are from the industry and have logged 20 years of situational experience on all three shifts. Many smaller to midsize firms do not have full time Trainers.  That is where we can be of great help.   We can upgrade the skill level of your support legal staff (Secretaries, Paralegals  and WP Operators) as well as Attorney staff. Of course we have basic through-advanced MS Office Training which we do every week, but what sets us apart is our ability to offer targeted training as well.   For those of you that are looking for work, we have you covered as well. We can train you from basic through advan...