Learn MS Word Legal: Last Line of Paragraph Splits Apart..

Last Line of Paragraph Splits Apart... Scenario: A Student of mine goes to one of her first law firm temp jobs. She is given a document to edit and she encounters a lot of new things: 1. One thing that threw her off is the use of the term PC's. As the majority of you probably know, that PC's simply refer to Proofreader Corrections and PC's are those corrections to be made throughout the document indicated by the Proofreader who checked the Edits that were submitted by the attorney against what the operator turned in after making those edits. 2. The next thing that was new, was the use of Third Party Software for the Multilevel Outlines and the running of the TOC and TOA. This is normal and can vary from firm to firm. If you are temping, as you go to different firms, you keep careful notes as to the software that was used. You will become very good at adjusting to the different software and different environments. Temps tend to be very attuned to the system as a whole since they are very good at generic MS Word and they get to see a myriad of third party softwares that are used throughout the industry. Remember, in order for the operator to get the chance to work in the law firm, they had to pass a generic MS Word legal hands-on test. 3. She mentioned a heavy use of direct formatting and almost no use of Character styles for Bolding and Underscoring. In some firms, it is not an issue and in some firms character styles are strategically used to control different pieces of the document for quick modification ability. 4. Finally, in answering the issue from the title of this article, if the last line of a justified paragraph is pulling apart, it is most likely that a Page Break was made before a hard return was placed at the end of the paragraph... Training From An Inside Perspectuve www.advanceto.com