Video Replay Grand Junction Legal Drafting with Microsoft Word 2007/2010 AND Advanced Techniques
June 2013
Legal Drafting with Microsoft Word 2007/2010 AND Advanced Techniques
Legal Drafting
Program Description:
If you're tired of wrestling with Word's formatting every time you have to draft something more complex than a letter, this is your course. Word courses designed for the general public just don't address the issues legal professionals face when drafting legal instruments. By contrast, this course is designed by legal professionals, for legal professionals. We'll cover legal drafting issues such as automatic paragraph numbering, complex page numbering schemes, tables of contents, footnotes, and paragraph number cross-referencing. Not only will you learn how to control Word's complex formatting attributes, but as part of this course you will also receive sample Word templates for pleadings, contracts/agreements, trusts and leases--all with the complex formatting built in and ready to go. This class assumes basic familiarity with Word and focuses exclusively on issues inherent to legal drafting.
Topics include:
- Explanation of the interfaces, ribbons, galleries, contextual tabs, the quick-access bar, and other new conventions.
- How to fix the program default settings, most of which are inappropriate for legal documents and actually make the program more difficult to use.
- Fundamentals of Word including advanced navigation and editing tips and tricks.
- How to copy text from one document to another without formatting nightmares.
- Create legal clause libraries with Word's Quick Parts feature.
- Understand once and for all how Word handles formatting. Learn how Word works and you'll start controlling Word rather than the other way around.
- Paragraph formatting including tabs, indents, auto paragraph spacing, keeping paragraphs connected and the right way to build signature lines and acknowledgments.
- Get page numbering to work for you, even in complex, multi-section documents (like an appellate brief).
- Controlling headers and footers in legal documents.
Advanced Techniques
Program Description:
If you want to master Word, there are certain concepts and features you must understand. This seminar will teach you what is going on behind the curtain so you'll know exactly how to attack drafting issues and fix or avoid the formatting problems plaguing you now. We'll cover styles (which grant you full control of formatting), macros (which allow you to automate repetitive tasks), and templates (which are the starting point for the legal documents you draft). Understand these topics and take your word processing to the next level of efficiency. Drafting complex documents in Word shouldn't feel like punishment. Don't get mad, get even -- and learn to control Word.
Topics include:
- What styles are and why they're the most important feature in word processing.
- How to use styles to fix common problems, including: eliminating random font changes while editing, fixing formatting glitches when copying text from one document to another, adding automatic paragraph numbering to a document which has been manually numbered, cleaning up documents that were converted from WordPerfect, and fixing documents someone else sent you.
- Using styles to quickly fix even the biggest formatting mess.
- Using templates to streamline your document generation and creating model documents with fill-in fields.
- Using templates to store and share styles, content, macros, auto text entries and toolbar modifications.
- How to create “public” templates and share them with others on your network.
- What macros are and when to use them.
- Differences between AutoText, AutoCorrect, Quick Parts (new to Word 2007), and Macros.
Faculty
Barron K. Henley is an attorney, legal technologist and founding member and president of Affinity Consulting Group LLC, Columbus, Ohio, which has provided legal technology consulting to more than 500 law firms nationwide. He is a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section and the Technology Committee, (General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section) as well as a member and former chair of the Ohio State Bar Association Law Office Automation and Technology Committee. Mr. Henley is a frequent continuing legal education speaker on legal-specific technology issues for state and local bar associations and CLE providers.
Location Information
Law Office of Baird B Brown PC
1250 E Sherwood Dr
Grand Junction, CO
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1250 E Sherwood Dr
Grand Junction, CO
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $339.00 |
| CBA | $279.00 |
| Paralegal/Legal Support Staff | $259.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS | $100.00 |
- General Credits: 6.00
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