Top Tips: Microsoft Office 2010 in Your SSF Practice Smarter Word, Saner Outlook: Tips, Tricks and Tools

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1 Microsoft Office 2010 in Your SSF Practice Ross L. Kodner, Top Tips: Microsoft Office 2010 in Your SSF Practice Smarter Word, Saner Outlook: Tips, Tricks and Tools 2012 Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference October Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference 2012 Ross Kodner, All Rights Reserved Faculty: Ross L. Kodner, MicroLaw, Inc. 1

2 Microsoft Office 2010 in Your SSF Practice Ross L. Kodner, Your Faculty: Ross L. Kodner, CEO / President MicroLaw, Inc Milwaukee Based, Continent-Wide rkodner@microlaw.com, Web: Marquette Univ. Law School, 1986 (Law Review) Founded MicroLaw, Inc. in 1985 Legal Technologist, Educator, Author Over 500 articles, CLE sessions since the mid-1980 s Technolawyer Legal Technology Consultant of the Year 1999, Contributor of the Year 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 Founder/National Coordinator, HelpKatrinaLawyers.org Over 1400 law offices assisted across North America Frequent author and speaker nationwide on legal technology subjects Chair, Wisconsin Law & Technology Conference ; Founder and 1 st Chair, Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference 2006 Co-Chair and Founder, National Solo & Small Firm Conference , Honorary Chair 2008 Chair, Milwaukee Bar Association Technology Committee, Chair, ABA LPM Section Computer & Technology Division and Member, TECHSHOW Board, Co-Chair, LegalTech CLE Planning Board Co-Author: How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times (ABA LPM Publishing, 2009/10/11/12 - tinyurl.com/howgoodlawyers) 2012 Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference 2012 Ross Kodner, All Rights Reserved 2

3 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Big Firm-Like Outlook with Hosted Exchange

4 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Hosting Microsoft Exchange Server is Cheap and Easier Cheaper and easier than setting up Microsoft s Outlook Engine in your own office A cloud approach that makes eminently good functional and economic sense for small firms You use Outlook as you normally would, including integrating it with your practice management system and document/ managers like Worldox...

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6 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Microsoft Themselves Now Does Exchange Hosting GoDaddy.com is one of the biggest, cheapest Exchange hosting sources for small firms

7 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Microsoft Themselves Now Does Exchange Hosting Microsoft doesn t include Outlook licenses but charges only $4/month/user for massive 25 Gb mailboxes!

8 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Microsoft Word 2010 for Lawyers: Less Pain, More Gain

9 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF A Painful Past: Word and Your Sanity Is there anyone here who hasn t experienced severe mental anguish when trying to create documents with Microsoft Word in your practice? Have you experienced gut-wrenching, stomachturning angst when trying to perform seemingly simple tasks such as creating the top line of a pleading caption or using automatically numbered paragraphs? Well, there s good news...

10 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF So Whose Fault is it? First, you re not alone and Second... IT S NOT YOUR FAULT! That s right blame Microsoft, blame Word they deserve it! In my opinion Word 2003 is the most poorly designed, utterly byzantine, illogical piece of software programming in the history of the universe, but I digress... I think Word 2003 could be legitimately classified as an international weapon of mass document destruction Perhaps the way to defeat Al Quaida would be to force them to format documents using Word for weeks on end?

11 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF But There s Hope at the End of the Word Processing Tunnel And the answer to your Word woes is right in front of you, available right now, drum roll please... Yes, it s called Microsoft Word! But that would be first, Word 2007 and now 2010, not 2003 Word 2010 is a 180 degree about-face from the torturous Word 2003 in virtually every respect Gone are the seemingly random distribution of functions across pulldown menus In fact, gone are ALL the pull-down menus! Gone is the illogical array of functions that required more time to decipher than to use Gone is the inane and useless Help functions that were so obtuse, you needed Help to get Help

12 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Dispelling a Myth. Everyone wonders do you need Windows 7 in order to use Microsoft Office 2010? Answer: ABSOLUTELY NOT! It runs perfectly under Windows XP Pro

13 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Maximizing Chances for Word Success (or for less failure ) First and most important if you re coming from a WordPerfect background you MUST stop trying to use Word as if it were WordPerfect! Yes, Using Word like WordPerfect is a recipe for a major mess in formatting

14 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Making the Move How Should Your Firm Do It? The key to any successful (read: relatively painless ) transition to a new version of Word is having a plan yes, that four letter dirty word of law practice management. Microsoft has an excellent online reference to the Word Migration process it offers step by step considerations from moving your settings, and all your accumulated customizations to Word 2010 Let s take a look...

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16 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Making the Move Four Key Areas for Attention Be sure to focus on four key areas, whether moving from WordPerfect or an earlier version of Word: 1. Document any macros you have and plan on winnowing the list to the ones you actually use, then decide how to re-create them in Word 2010 (or use a new Word feature to replicate the function) 2. Move your AutoText and AutoCorrect entries so they re there for everyone on Day One 3. Move your styles and/or create new styles for everything from pleadings, to letters to contracts so formatting is one click away 4. Be sure your approach to letterhead/correspondence setup is ready to roll in Word 2010

17 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Top Tips: Working Smarter in Word 2010 Now we ll shift gears and talk about the top tips and new features of Word 2010 what makes it good enough for this old WordPerfect devotee to embrace it and not hate it? The answer is a radical new interface that is so rational and intuitive, other software publishers will likely copy it (perhaps even Corel?) And also... Kind of important... It s MUCH easier to use! Let s dig in and take a look...

18 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The Cataclysmic Shift: Pull-Downs are STILL Dead, Long Live the Ribbon! The first thing you ll notice in Word 2010 is the improved version of Word 2007 s Ribbon There are several Ribbons that contain most of the features you d want to access, in a single-click No more games of hide and seek with pull-down menus and sub-menus and more sub-menus...

19 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Let s Explore the Ribbon, Shall We? There are eight or nine Ribbons, depending on what Word Add-Ins you install (such as Adobe Acrobat) Font and Text Appearance Paragraph Appearance Functions Applying Styles and Creating New Styles This is the new Home ribbon the main editing screen ribbon that gives access to the editing and formatting functions in Word 2010

20 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The Insert Ribbon: Tell Word to Stick It This is the second Ribbon click Insert to access it... Insert Pictures Files in your Document Headers, Footers, Page Numbers Quick Parts to build documents from blocks The Insert Ribbon lets you insert everything from pictures, to Quick Parts (think Lego building blocks), date/time, page breaks, live web links, and the allimportant access to headers and footers

21 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The Page Layout Ribbon: Get it Right This is the third Ribbon click Page Layout to access it... Setup the layout of all the pages Setup the layout of paragraphs Deal with line spacing setttings here The Page Layout ribbon adjusts everything from the margins and how page breaks are handled to the layout of paragraphs and line spacing in your document

22 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The References Ribbon: Note It This is the fourth Ribbon click References to access it... Deal with footnotes and endnotes here Insert cites into your pleadings and briefs Insert Captions, Indices and a Table of Authorities The References ribbon lets you work with footnotes and endnotes, insert citations in a document, and mark cited legal authorities to build a Table of Authorities neatly organized by legal reference section

23 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The Mailings Ribbon: Send It This is the fifth Ribbon click Mailings to access it... Setup envelopes and any kinds of labels here Full access to mail-merge functions and insert Address Blocks The Mailings ribbon lets you setup envelopes and labels (with TONS of supported types) as well as full access to creating and running mail merges (i.e. Holiday Card labels!)

24 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The Review Ribbon: Work It This is the sixth Ribbon click Review to access it... Deal with spell-checking here Master control for commenting and track changes Document comparisons finally work! The Review ribbon lets you spell-check, and is the master control area for using Track Changes, adding Comments (think digital post-its), doing document comparisons and protecting final docs from being edited

25 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The Other Ribbons: Add-Ins and Acrobat This are the seventh and eighth Ribbons The other ribbons let you access Add-Ins like metadata removal software and the full range of Adobe Acrobat functions (if it is installed. And it should be!)

26 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF So Where are the File Menu and Help Functions?? A big improvement over Word 2007 is the inclusion of an actual File menu (instead of the cryptic Office button) and a Help function under the File menu where it belongs!

27 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The New File Menu in Word 2010

28 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The New Help Menu A Big Improvement

29 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Cool Word Features You Need to Use: Styles and QuickStyles Compartmentalize your WordPerfect knowledge about codes so you can make room in your head for the idea of styles A style is a collection of multiple formatting functions all rolled into a single-click approach it s actually much easier than using WordPerfect codebased system for altering text appearance Word comes with standard styles and you can make your own on the fly for everything from pleadings to client letters to contracts...

30 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Cool Word Features You Need to Use: Styles and QuickStyles Click in the Styles section of the Home ribbon and see the standards You can mark text and click Save as a Quick Style to make your own

31 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Cool Word Features You Need to Use: Styles and QuickStyles When you make a QuickStyle, it couldn t be easier highlight the text that is formatted the way you want, select Save as a New Quick Style, name it, then re-use often!

32 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Cool Word Features You Need to Use: Play With Lego Quick Parts is seriously useful every day! You can create Building Blocks ( Lego get it?) that you can select and insert anywhere in your document These can be everything from a letterhead layout to clauses to build a contract or trial brief any chunk of text can be saved, then inserted anywhere, in any doc

33 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Cool Word Features You Need to Use: Play With Lego To use Quick Parts and create a collection of Building Blocks ( Lego Pieces ), select a chunk of text you want to turn into one in any source document Then go to the Insert ribbon and click on Quick Parts Select Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery

34 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Cool Word Features You Need to Use: Play With Lego Next, you ll be asked to name and save your new Building Block for later recall

35 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Cool Word Features You Need to Use: Play With Lego Then when you re in a document and want to insert your Building Block, click Quick Parts and click on the item in the list and it will pop it into your document Think of the possibilities for creating a clause library for each area of practice?

36 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Cool Word Features You Need to Use: Comparing Docs Document comparison in Word 2003 was useless In Word 2010, it s incredibly capable no more third party change managers needed? Find it under the Review ribbon and see three panels the two docs you re comparing and the redlined version it s about time!

37 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Cool Word Features You Need to Use: Final and Format Eraser Two handy tools to use Mark as Final locks the document so only you can alter it (or unlock it) (find it under the Review ribbon as Protect Document The Format Eraser is a godsend wipe it over text and it removes the formatting the text takes on the appearance of the surrounding body text big timesaver! (Font section of the Home ribbon)

38 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable Word Tools, Add-Ins and Resources Let s get a rapid peek at my recommended Word add-ins, tools and web resources Every Word user in every law office should be using these tools with both Word 2003 and Word 2010 Taking any other approach is truly doing things the hard way

39 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable Word Tools, Add-Ins and Resources The Payne Group s series of Assistant products ( ting.com) are all terrific RATING: Indispensable Metadata Assistant ($89) lets you view and remove hidden metadata critical!

40 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable Word Tools, Add-Ins and Resources The Payne Group s series of Assistant products ( ting.com) are all terrific I heartily recommend this company known for being the top international legal Word experts RATING FOR ALL: Indispensable

41 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable Word Tools, Add-Ins and Resources Payne s $79 Numbering Assistant replaces Word s screwy automatic paragraph numbering with a system that actually works your staff will thank you! RATING: Indispensable

42 Payne s Forms Assistant are like document setup macros on steroids Automated approach to setting up standard document formats across all your PC systems. RATING: Crazy to do this manually - INDISPENSABLE Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable Word Tools, Add-Ins and Resources

43 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable Word Tools, Add-Ins and Resources Payne s Redaction Assistant securely redact text so the recipient cannot turn it off and view the privileged or confidential information underneath RATING: Indispensable for litigators Redaction Assistant lets you securely hide privileged or irrelevant info

44 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable Word Tools, Add-Ins and Resources Levit & James makes the indispensable CrossEyes and very useful CrossWords tools I heartily recommend this company as well especially for its Reveal Codes addition to Word sorely needed!

45 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable Word Tools, Add-Ins and Resources Just plain magic. No need to pine for Reveal Codes with Levit & James CrossEyes (available for Word 2003, coming soon for Word 2010) $30 utility which adds most of WordPerfect s Reveal codes to help you rapidly fix uncooperative documents RATING: Indispensable for ALL WORD USERS! Redaction Assistant lets you securely hide privileged or irrelevant info

46 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable: Microsoft Word 2010 Compatibility Update for Office 2003 Office 2010 uses the same new file format introduced in Word 2007 (.docx,.pptx,.xlsx) For Office 2003 users to read these files, they ALL need to download and install the free Microsoft Office 2010 Compatibility Pack for Office 2003 users Just do this if you re using Office 2003 you need it! Redaction Assistant lets you securely hide privileged or irrelevant info

47 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable: Microsoft Word 2010 Saves in Word Format Too Alternatively, if you re sending to a Word 2003 (or earlier version) user, you can save your Word document (or PowerPoint or Excel file) in the older format... But still, advise the recipient to update their system with the previously mentioned Compatibility Pack they ll need it!

48 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable: Posting to Your Blog with Word Very Slick You can now post directly to your law practice blog using Word s new New Blog Post function Find it under the Office Button, then New Document, then New Blog Post

49 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable: Posting to Your Blog with Word Very Slick Setup your blog account to allow Word to see it and login using your ID and password Then type your blog post and click Publish to Blog from the specialized Blogging Ribbon that appears Easier formatting than using your blog s builtin and usually crude editor

50 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable: Posting to Your Blog with Word Very Slick And here s the result a perfectly formatted blog post all done from within Word 2010 This should encourage you to post to your blog more often no more manually logging into and navigating through your blog s site management system

51 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF Useful / Indispensable: Allen Wyatt s WordTips Allen Wyatt s WORDTIPS is an incredibly useful resource with a strong how to do emphasis I visit regularly and subscribe to his free Tips ings you should too

52 Microsoft Ross Wyoming IICLE Colorado L Kodner, Legal Bar Louisville Tech Annual Bar Seminars CLE Meeting Bar 2009 Ross Association Oklahoma Ross L. L. L. Kodner, CLE Bar SSF The Word 2010 Bottom-Line. Using Word is a fact of life in contemporary law practice While Word 2003 continues to victimize law firm s everywhere, Word 2010 is an absolute breath of fresh air Could it be that Word 2010 is as good as WordPerfect? In many ways it is, and in some ways, it is actually superior And remember, you re hearing this from a long-time WordPerfect devotee... It s time for lawyers to work smart and use Word 2010 intelligently in their practices

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54 Microsoft Office in in Your Your SSF SSF Practice - Ross L. L. Kodner, Thank You! For Assistance With Microsoft Office, I m Happy to Help 2012 Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference October 2012 Ross Kodner, MicroLaw, Inc. Automating Lawyers Worldwide Since 1985 Phone: support@microlaw.com Wisconsin AAEPA Solo MoBar & Small Fall SASFC Summit Firm Conference Ross Kodner, All Rights Reserved