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