Microsoft Word: Advanced Techniques for Making Word a Legal Word Processor

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Time: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver

Who should attend: Lawyers and staff who want to master Word and understand its most complicated features (these are also the features which will save you the most time).

Learning level: All levels

Course Instructor 
Barron K. Henley — Affinity Consulting Group, LLC, Columbus, OH

About the Course Instructor 
Barron K. Henley is an attorney, a “legal technologist” since 1990, and a founding member of Affinity Consulting Group (formerly Henley March & Unger Consulting, Inc.) which handles all aspects of law practice automation including document assembly, case management, document management, legal accounting software, trial presentation/litigation support, paper reduction/scanning, hardware, network/servers and security. Barron received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (majoring in marketing and economics) and J.D. from The Ohio State University, and is a member of the American, Ohio, and Columbus Bar Associations, and the Worthington Estate Planning Council. He is a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section and is the former Chair of the Ohio State Bar Association Law Office Automation & Technology Committee. Barron heads Affinity’s HotDocs document assembly and software training departments, and has authored legal-specific manuals on HotDocs document assembly, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Adobe Acrobat. Barron teaches continuing legal education (CLE) classes covering practice management, document management, file management, server and personal computer issues, remote access, mobile lawyering, scanning and paper reduction strategies, electronic case filing, Word, Excel, Outlook, WordPerfect, HotDocs document assembly, Adobe Acrobat, malpractice avoidance, and many other topics. He speaks through out the US and Canada for bar associations and other CLE providers.

Styles: If You Don't Control Them, They Will Control You

• styles—what they do and why it is critical that you understand how to use them
• learn how to
  • set up and control automatic paragraph numbering
  • generate an automatic table of contents
  • create paragraph cross-references that automatically update themselves if paragraphs are added or deleted
  • turn page numbering on and off; and start it over anywhere in the document
  • eliminate random front changes while editing
  • copy text from one document to another with perfect formatting
  • de-construct and fix documents which are a complete mess
  • convert WordPerfect files to Word
  • create custom formatting tools you can use in every document

Using Templates to Streamline Your Document Generation

• create model documents with fill-in fields
• how to create “public” templates and share them with others on your network
• leave with sample Word templates to use in your practice

Macros: Automate Your Word Processing

• macros—what they are and when to use them
• other automation tools in Word—AutoText, AutoCorrect, and Quick Parts
• creating and sharing macros
• assign macros to toolbar buttons and/or speed-keys