MS Word 2007-16 Legal: Training That Takes You To Expert Level...

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Learn MS Word Legal - Grouping Charts That Are Put Together From Scratch:

This article deals with PowerPoint charts that were NOT created with the SmartArt Pre-Set Chart Selections.  

Sometimes people will construct charts from scratch and another operator will then inherit the chart to edit it.  An item that comes up again and again is the use of Grouping.

1.  When a chart is totally "ungrouped", the separate pieces (lines, boxes, arrows, ovals etc.) are independently controllable in terms of moving around on the slide.

2.  When a chart is "grouped" either partially or totally, the piece that is grouped can be copied, shifted up-down-left-right by tugging or use of Control-North-South-East-West for Micro Moving.  You are now in a position to control the entire chart or a piece of a chart instead of moving each piece of the chart independently to adjust the chart's position on the slide.  Charts can have many pieces to deal with so this can be very time consuming.

3.  To grab the entire chart in order to Group it, click on one of the objects in the chart such as a box or oval.   Then, do "Control A" which highlights all of the pieces of the Chart.   Click on the "Drawing Tools" Tab (upper right) and select "Group".  The chart will now respond as one solid piece to be moved around as needed.

4.  When you grab your chart to Group it by use of "Control A" you will also grab Footer Material on the slide such as Page No., Date etc. since the pieces of the Footer are using Text Boxes".  To "De-select" the Footer Material or for that matter any selected material that you DO NOT want in the Grouping:  Go over to the Object and "Shift Click".  Once you have de-selected the pieces that you don't want in the group, go to Drawing Tools and Group the remaining selected pieces.

5.  You can also grab the pieces of the chart by sweeping your cursor over the area to be grouped and when you let go, the highlighted piece will then show all the selected pieces highlighted.  Then, go to Drawing Tools and Select Group.

6.  Finally, if you wish to Group the Chart and copy it to another slide Group the uypieces of the Chart that you need, click on the Grouped Piece and select copy.  Go to the slide that needs the Chart and paste it in.

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MS Word Legal Training- Document Compare Vs. Track Changes - There is a Difference

Let's first talk about Document Compare.

Under the Review Tab:  (Document Compare). In this instance, we are comparing two separate versions of a document whereby additions should be displayed as double underscore and deletions should be displayed as overstrike text.  The comparison shows the progress between the two separate versions of the same document.

On a document comparison, everything should be in black text.  It is important to note that many document comparisons are saved as PDF files and sent to the attorney or client along with the most current "Clean" version of the file.  Clean, simply refers to the MS Word document that the recent round of edits were done in.

Let's talk about Track Changes:

When Track Changes are on, either an attorney will ask that we leave it on and do the proposed edits or we switch the view over to "Final" that leaves the function on but does not show the Track Changes which can be a diversion while you are doing your edits.  Sometimes we are asked to "Accept All Changes" and turn off the function altogether.

Track Changes unlike a document comparison, shows an immediate black line of the changes in real time as you type your additions and deletions and is occurring within the "current open document" rather than comparing two separate documents as in a Document Comparison.

Traditional colors for Track Changes are Blue for the Additions which are Double Underlined and Red with Overstrike for the deletions.  You can print the track changes by either switching over to Final Showing Mark-Up and going to print or leaving the document in Final which hides the black line and then going to File, Print, Settings, Print All Pages and choose "Print Mark-up.".

Note:  Under "Change Tracking Options" is where you can affect the color of the additions and deletions as well as how the additions and deletions will be displayed.

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MS Word Legal Training - Page X of Y - Easy Use of Field Codes:

This is another one of those articles where you get the opportunity of exposure.  I say this because this is a feature that may not be used everyday and if you never had the request, it could be very frustrating trying to figure it out.  

So why Page X of Y?

On letters, agreements, contracts etc. each page can be crucial (interdependent of the previous or next page) and the accounting of each page becomes very important.  If we go to the printer and we get 15 pages but the footer says "of 20" then we know we are missing pages.  Without the X of Y set-up, sometimes it may not be as apparent that we are missing pages.

You can also have missing pages from the middle of the document.  When people share a printer at a busy office a lot of things like this can occur.

Another reason to account for each and every page involves the request of those involved to initial each individual page.  They do this so that at a later date, one cannot claim they did not know about a certain provision of the contract or agreement since the initials imply you have read each page.

When Page X of Page Y type numbering is requested, you now know what they are asking for.  Let's go through it.

1.  Luckily, we take can take care of everything in the same place being Quick Parts-Fields.

2.  So open up your Footer.  Either center or Align Right.  Type in the word "Page" followed by a space.

3.  Go to Insert-Quick Parts- Fields and choose the field "Page".

4.  Now place a space after the field code that just came in within your open footer and type in the word "of" followed by a space.

5.  Now go back to Insert, Quick Parts and again select Fields and this time select NumPages.

In the footer it should look something like this:    Page 1 of 10

Note:  Both fields should be grey if you are operating with "Field Shading Always" in the "On" selection which is found under File-Options-Advanced-Show Document Content.

Give it a try.  

ThIs fis easy enough. And yes, there are pre-sets for this under the page number set-up but...I wanted you to know the two separate field codes that make this happen.

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