29 Wednesday Jun 2016
Posted in Legal Technology, Microsoft Office, Word
≈ Comments Off on Word Domination.
Dear Lawyers: It’s Not Word, It’s You, by Barron Henley, Lawyerist.com Blog
Here are two important facts about Microsoft Word:
Fact 1: 100% of the formatting problems you’ve experienced when drafting new documents can be completely avoided before they occur.
Fact 2: When editing a document someone else drafted, any formatting glitches can be resolved in just a few clicks, no matter how bad of a mess it is.
Unfortunately, the foregoing facts are true only if you have mastered Word.
31 Monday Aug 2015
Posted in Legal Technology, Microsoft Office, Word
≈ Comments Off on One-Click Microsoft Word Macros.
Word Macros: Three Examples To Automate Your Documents, by J.D. Sartain, Max Productivity, PC World
Word macros are one-click wonders that let you program complex procedures to launch at your bidding. Here are a few examples to get you started. One creates your company letterhead; the second one inserts pre-formatted tables; and the third one defines and designs custom book formats. . . .
05 Monday Jan 2015
Posted in Legal Technology, Microsoft Office, Word
≈ Comments Off on More Handy Word Shortcuts.
Word 2010 Shortcuts,by Shortcut World.com
(wiki-style reference database for keyboard shortcuts)
http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/win/Word_2010.html
Also provides shortcuts for 2007 and 2013 – very handy stuff. -CCE
19 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in Apple, Apps, Clouds, Emails, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Microsoft Office, Tablets, Word
≈ Comments Off on iPhone Candy Courtesy of iPhone J.D. Blog’s Sixth Anniversary!
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Apps, GoodReader 4, iCloud, iPad, iPhone, iPhone J.D. Blog, iPin, Jeff Richardson, Powerocks Super Magicstick, Reader 7
Six Years Of iPhone J.D., by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
Congratulations and thanks to Jeff Richardson for six years of iPhone J.D. Blog. As usual, Jeff shares a sweet collection of apps in honor of his yearly anniversary. Thank you, Jeff! -CCE
iPhone J.D. turns six years old this week. Seems like it was just yesterday that I wrote the first post on iPhone J.D., explaining why I found the iPhone a valuable tool in a law practice. Back then, almost no attorneys used iPhones (about 5% according to a 2008 Am Law Tech Survey), but now the majority of attorneys in the U.S. use an iPhone (around 60% according to the ABA).
Over the past six years, I’ve written over 1,200 posts on iPhone J.D., including reviews of over 300 apps, reviews of every major iOS device released by Apple (from the iPhone 3GS to the new iPhone 6 and all models of the iPad) and reviews of over 300 accessories. I’ve also tried to provide lots of tips and tricks for getting the most out of your iPhone and iPad, and discussed all of the tech news that I think that you might want to know about if you use an iPhone or iPad.
Through the years, I’ve gotten tons of great feedback from iPhone J.D. readers, ranging from emails to over 2,500 comments on the site, and I’ve been honored to share guests posts by attorneys from around the world who use iPhones and iPads in their law practice. Site traffic has grown steadily every year, and in just a few days, one of you is going to load iPhone J.D. and it will be the 5 millionth page view since the site launched.
Popular posts this year. It’s a tradition on iPhone J.D.’s anniversary (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) to identify the most popular posts from the prior 12 months. Perhaps it reveals something about the topics that iPhone and iPad owners have been thinking about lately. Here are the ten most viewed posts published in the last year . . . .
28 Saturday Jun 2014
Posted in Bad Legal Writing, Brief Writing, Editing, Legal Writing, Legalese, Microsoft Office, Plain Language, Proofreading, Word
≈ Comments Off on Checked Your Readability Score Lately?
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Above the Law (blog), Bad Legal Writing, Editing, Legal Writing, Mark Herrmann, Microsoft Word, Readabilty Score, Steve Dykstra
Expose Your Weakness — Now! by Mark Herrmann, Above the Law Blog
http://abovethelaw.com/2014/06/expose-your-weakness-now/
Think you can write? Do these four things.
First, pull out the last brief that you wrote.
Not that one — that’s the final version, edited by guys who could write. We’re looking for your work, untouched by others. Find the unedited draft that you first circulated. (If you don’t have a draft brief handy, that’s okay. Find the last long email that you sent to someone who matters — to the partner, the client, the general counsel, or the CEO.)
Second, click through this link, which will tell you how to enable Microsoft Word’s ‘readability’ feature on your computer. Enable that feature.
Third, let the readability feature score your work.
Finally, take a handkerchief and wipe the spit out of your eye. (I bet you didn’t realize that a computer could spit in your eye.)
You didn’t notice the spit? Here it comes: Compare your readability score to the average readability score for the works of bestselling authors.
I didn’t even know about Microsoft’s readability feature until I published a column on legal writing last month. I argued in favor of using short sentences and the active voice. A reader — Steve Dykstra, who’s a legal recruiter and budding novelist in Toronto — promptly sent me an enlightening email. Steve also subjected my work — my column on legal writing — to Microsoft Word’s readability test. Steve then told me how my column compared to the work of bestselling authors. . . .
19 Monday May 2014
Posted in Apps, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Legal Writing, Microsoft Office, Word
≈ Comments Off on Reviewer 7 App — Microsoft Documents On iPad.
Review: Reviewer 7 — Review And Edit Microsoft Word Documents, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
For many years, there was no one, best way to review and edit Microsoft Word documents on an iPad, but there were lots of apps that could be used for the task, each with their own strengths and limitations. The landscape changed in March of 2014 when Microsoft introduced the Word for iPad app – a powerful app that can handle almost everything that you would want to do with a Word document on an iPad. Ever since then, I have wondered about the future of the other apps that handle Word documents. Some apps may be abandoned, but my hope is that others will find ways to distinguish themselves from Microsoft’s app.
That’s exactly what has happened with the new Reviewer 7 app. This a new name for an updated version of an app that used to be called Reader 7, and I reviewed it this past February. Reader 7 was created by German attorney Maren Reuter and her husband, who is a software designer, and I thought when I reviewed it that it was one of the very best apps for reading Word files on an iPad. The app’s name was changed because while it is still an excellent viewer, you can now get the app for free and spend $1.99 for the in-app Review Tools upgrade and then the app will let you create redline edits in a Word document. . . .
29 Saturday Mar 2014
Posted in Apple, Apps, Excel, Legal Technology, Mac, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Word
≈ Comments Off on At Last! The Microsoft App For iPad, With Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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ABA TECHSHOW, App, Excel, iPad, iPhone J.D. Blog, Jeff Richardson, Microsoft, Microsoft Office Mobile, PowerPoint, Word
Microsoft releases Word (and Excel and PowerPoint) for iPad, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
I’m at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago right now, and the big news on Thursday was that Microsoft released a version of Word (and Excel, and PowerPoint) for the iPad. I have been kicking the tires on this app since it was released Thursday afternoon, and I am incredibly impressed. Unlike Microsoft Office Mobile for iPhone released last year, the new Word app for the iPad has virtually every feature that lawyers want to use. Every attorney who uses an iPad will want to get this app. . . .
30 Thursday Jan 2014
Posted in Apps, Cell Phones, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Microsoft Office, Word, WordPerfect
≈ Comments Off on View WordPerfect on iPhones and Ipads With LawBox’s WPD Viewer App.
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Charles Jannace, Corel, iOS7, iPhone J.D. Blog, Jeff Richardson, LawBox, Nicholas Zeltzer, Word, WordPerfect, WPD Viewer
WordPerfect Viewer returns to LawBox, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
If you have an iPad or iPhone, you know that your device cannot natively view WordPerfect files. (Yes, there are still plenty of folks in the legal community who use WordPerfect.)
There is an app for that — WPD Viewer — originally reviewed by Jeff Richardson in 2010. Created by LawBox, this app will let you view a WordPerfect document, but you cannot edit it. Regardless, you can cut and paste into a new document if you wish to edit it.
The folks at Corel liked the app so much that they bought the right to sell it. As of January 2014, the app has come back to LawBox. The founder of LawBox, Nicholas Zeltzer, has already updated the app for iOS7. One of the post’s commenters, Charles Jannace, added that the app connects directly with Dropbox.
Although this app does not give you a smooth transition from WordPerfect to Word or back again, it does give you a way to access and copy and paste a WordPerfect document. -CCE
20 Monday Jan 2014
Posted in Excel, Legal Technology, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Word
≈ Comments Off on How To Disable The Typing Animation Feature in Office 2013.
Disable Typing Animation In All Office 2013 Applications [Tip], by Abdullah Saqib, Addictive Tips Blog
Have you made the switch to Microsoft Office 2013? If you have, hopefully you are happy with all the changes that inevitably follow each new version. The Addictive Tips Blog is a useful tool, along with the always handy “F1,” if you find that things do not work in the way they did in older versions.
This post shows you how to disable the typing animation feature. It is not a permanent change to the software – you can get it back anytime you want it. -CCE
15 Wednesday Jan 2014
Posted in Computer Forensics, Databases, Discovery, E-Discovery, Excel, Legal Technology, Microsoft Office, Word
≈ Comments Off on Craig Ball Revisits Gigabytes.
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Ball in Your Court, Catalyst, Computer Forensics, Craig Ball, Database, Excel, Gigabyte, John Tredennick, Word
Revisiting ‘How Many Documents in a Gigabyte?’, by Craig Ball, Ball In Your Court Blog
[I]’m happy to point you to some notable work by my friend, John Tredennick. I’ve known John since the emerging technology was fire and watched with awe and admiration as John transitioned from old-school trial lawyer to visionary forensic technology entrepreneur running e-discovery service provider, Catalyst. John is as close to a Renaissance man as anyone I know in e-discovery, and when John speaks, I listen.
Lately, John Tredennick shared some revealing metrics on the Catalyst blog looking at the relationship between data and document volumes, an update to his 2011 article called, How Many Documents in a Gigabyte?
06 Friday Dec 2013
Posted in Adobe Acrobat, E-Discovery, Federal District Court Rules, Legal Technology, Metadata, Native Format, Requests for Production, Trial Tips and Techniques, Word
≈ Comments Off on Was It Appropriate to Produce Word Documents as PDF Files?
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.pdf, Bow Tie Law Blog, E-Discovery, Joshua Gilliland, Magistrate Judge William Hussmann, Microsoft Word, Native Files, Request for Production
Who Knew What When About the Form of Production, by Joshua Gilliland, Esq., Bow Tie Law Blog
http://bowtielaw.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/who-knew-what-when-about-the-form-of-production/
Magistrate Judge William Hussmann put a new spin on form of production analysis in Crissen v. Gupta: What form was discovery in and when was it in that form?
05 Tuesday Nov 2013
Posted in Legal Technology, Word
≈ Comments Off on Overview of Features in Microsoft Word 2013
What’s New In Microsoft Word 2013? [Review], Abdullah Saqib, AddictiveTips.com
http://www.perma.cc/0dqLo3Xxnga
[DO NOT CLICK ON THE GREEN BUTTON THAT SAYS “DOWNLOAD”! It is NOT part of the article – it is an ad (possible malware?). CCE]
