Styles prevent document corruption (i.e., unable to open a document, a document not printing or paginating properly) by reducing the amount of formatting code embedded in a document
Some formatting features in Word are crippled or disabled without styles. Want to build a table of contents or update a document’s paragraph numbering? It’s a [...]
Author Archives: Anita Evans
Anita’s Top Ten Reasons For Using Styles…
Published on August 8, 2009 by Anita Evans
More Reasons Why You Should Use MS Word Styles?
Published on August 8, 2009 by Anita Evans
Have you ever started formatting a document and it started “acting funny?” There is a way to make the madness stop. They are called Styles. Styles give documents a consistent, uniform look and make editing a breeze.
Unfortunately, the majority legal documents are created by applying direct formatting or what I like to [...]
Excel Tips – using the Convert function
Published on August 8, 2009 by Anita Evans
How many of you, working with international clients, or international companies have received data in Excel that needed to be converted to U.S. standards?
The CONVERT function converts data from one set of units to another. For example, the CONVERT function can change feet to meters, hours to minutes, or degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit.
The CONVERT [...]
Why Use MS Word Styles?
Published on August 8, 2009 by Anita Evans
Have you ever started formatting a document and it started “acting funny?” There is a way to make the madness stop. They are called Styles. Styles give documents a consistent, uniform look and make editing a breeze.
A majority of legal documents are created by applying direct formatting or what I like to [...]
The Metadata Debate
Whenver a sensitive document is sent via email, I’m frequently asked to check to insure that the metadata has been removed. The term “metadata” is a frequent worry to lawyers but it’s because there is not a clear understandings of not only WHAT is metadata but what that metadata would imply if left in a document.
Most large to medium sized law firms [...]