AdvanceTo Legal and Corporate Word Processing Training

MS Word Legal/Corporate: How Would you Know what style your cursor is sitting Upon? Scenario :  Attorney gives you a document to edit.  You are told that some of the Defined Terms (“ Defined Terms ”), within the document are bolded manually and some are bolded using a “ character style ”.  You are asked to make sure that all Defined Terms are using a Character Style for the Bold attribute. The character style is beneficial because it allows us to change or add attributes such as Italic or Underscore to a piece of text quickly with a simple modification of the already existing Character Style, rather than on a one by one basis if using Direct Formatting. So back to our original question.  When going through the document how can we quickly know whether the piece of text that is Bolded (which is our scenario), was Bolded using Direct Formatting or by the use of a Character Style? Of course we can use our right side style pallet to see what style lights up when we place...

MS Word Legal and Corporate. Another Group of “What Nows” to Cross Off Your List… No matter how long you are in this business, especially those in the word processing center sector know that on any given day, things come up and you end up saying “now what” so let’s go after three easy ones but keep in mind, they stumped three separate  people who needed help. Scenario No. 1:  Secretary was working on a large 300 page document with many separate sections.  She was editing the various separate Headers and simply wanted to get back quickly to the top of the document.  She used “Control Home” and she could not get back to the top of the document.  She wanted to edit text that was not part of the Headers and this text was situated toward the beginning of the document. I told her to close the Header/Footer section and then use the Control Home command. Scenario No. 2:  An operator tells me that he keeps saving a one page PDF as a JPG as requested.  The PD...