Word 2013: Transition from WordPerfect
Description:
Designed to assist paralegals, law clerks, attorneys and other court/judicial personnel in transitioning existing WordPerfect skills to the Microsoft Office 2013 platform.The course aims to improve program comfort and efficiency amongst legal professionals and will include best practices for converting documents from WordPerfect to Word, working with legal memoranda, administrative documents, and common filings with proper pagination, numbering, margins, styles, tables, columns, footnotes, fonts, symbols, formatting, paragraph alignment, letterhead, hyperlinks and bookmarks, etc. in Microsoft Word 2013.
I. The Word Environment
Opening, Starting Word
Components of Word
Customization of Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbon and Status bar
II. Working with Documents
Creating a document and adding text
Save, Save As
Managing Document versions
Opening Existing Word Perfect Document
Conversion Practices
Navigation Shortcuts & Selection Techniques
Editing Documents
Cut, Copy, and Paste
III. Formatting Documents
Page Formatting
Reveal Formatting vs. REVEAL CODES
Styles
Define Styles, Themes and Templates
Tabs, Tables, Sections and Columns
Symbols and Special Characters
Automation and AutoFormat
IV. Mail Merge
Mail Merge Data sources
Building the Form Letter
Completing the Merge
Creating, Sorting and Filtering a Recipient List
Merging Labels of Envelopes
V. Tracking Changes
Using Track Changes
Multiple Reviewers
Accept/Reject Changes
Compare and Merge Changes
VI. Working with Long Documents
Outlines
Master and Subdocuments
Creating Captions
Inserting a Table of Contents
Tables of Authorities and Table of Figures
Bookmarks and Cross References
VII. Macros
Recording Macros
Running Macros
Modifying Macros
Saving a document with Macros
VIII. File Security
Password Protection
Inspect document for Metadata
Finalizing a Document
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