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Using Shapes as Well as Re-Color Under Photo Tools To Solve An Old Problem…

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Using Shapes as Well as Re-Color Under Photo Tools To Solve An Old Problem… Scenario :  Attorney X asks us to prepare a slide and key in text over the slide. We loaded a photo into the slide as a whole.  We then used two clear rectangles with bullets to type in the text that sits over the photo.  When the attorney receives the slide and opens the PowerPoint, he is not happy with the visibility of the text over the photo.  Because the picture that we embedded in the slide had both dark areas and light areas, we have a problem surfacing.   If we choose a light color for the text, then it gets lost in the light areas and the text only shows nicely in the darker portions of the picture on the slide and vice versa.  The attorney has has asked us to please fix this problem.  Depending on whether the photo is loaded into the slide itself or loaded into the shape that the text sits within, we will now go over a number of fixes. Scenario 1: This first method as...

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...