Word of Law Index
This page last updated Monday 09 November 2015 .
| Word of Law was published
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WOW readers get the latest news, tips, and tricks on Microsoft Office and
related topics. Word of Law is authored by Bob Blacksberg, Director of
Practice Management at TechLaw, Inc.
This index was put together by Charles Kenyon to assist him in referring to articles. Most of the text used for descriptions is copied from the particular article. Some is his summary. Both are incomplete. The links to Bob Blacksberg's site don't work. I've been slowly replacing them with links to WOW.
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Microsoft Word works best for legal documents that adhere
to: THE SEVEN LAWS OF STYLES. |
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Automatic Numbering. In the WOW spirit, if the reward is great enough, we will pick apart and rework Word 97 to make it work, if we have to. We have to. | |
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Automatic Numbering | |
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Automatic Numbering | |
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Turning off AutoCorrect as you type options. AUTOTEXT DESIGN AND STRATEGIES | |
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CAN WORD REVEAL CODES? SHOULD IT? | |
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Functional goals for organizational AutoText. | |
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Automatic numbering. Restart numbering. Be warned. There is no way to fully explain the issues raised by a numbering restart without getting quite technical about Word’s structure, commands and operation. | |
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The urgency of the development of numbering formats by those who have mastered these issues, and sharing them through templates and the Style Gallery. | |
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Use no empty paragraphs - the exceptions. | |
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Typing, get over it! The standards and habits of the era of mechanical typing have been very hard to stamp out, even after nearly more than 20 years of word processing. | |
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Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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After a period (stop?) two spaces or one? | |
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Tracing styles from templates to documents. | |
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The Style Gallery and implications for template development. | |
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Accurate word count - including footnotes. | |
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A short comparison between changing styles through application of the Style Gallery function and changing the Attached Template. | |
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Suggestions for improvements to Microsoft Word. | |
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The distinctions in tasks and skills that should exist between the staff who use Microsoft Word to write and produce documents and the staff who support and develop the Word environment. | |
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The responsibilities and skills of the Microsoft Word help desk and development staff. | |
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For a strong organizational implementation of Microsoft Word, it is necessary to plan and design Word’s environment: The system Architect | |
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Strategies for Tables
Why use tables? What role should each of the types of users of Word play in the use, support, design and construction of tables? |
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What’s the difference between a table used for
presentation and a table used for the organization and storage of data?
When should a spreadsheet or database program such as Excel, Access, Outlook or a larger scale database be used instead of a table? |
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"How should styles be used in tables?" | |
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How can a firm or other organization standardize the formatting of tables? | |
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How can a firm or other organization standardize the
formatting of tables?
How helpful are the Table AutoFormats? |
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Use of AutoText as a resource for standardizing the formats of tables. What AutoText can do, and do very well, is provide a well controlled source for new tables, fully formatted to the standards developed by the organization. What AutoText cannot do is change or clean up the format of existing tables. | |
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How does Word 2000 change table behavior? What happens when tables formatted in Word 6 and Word 97 get converted to Word 2000? | |
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What can go wrong when formatting tables, such as strange behavior in inserts in rows and columns? | |
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Table intricacies | |
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What happens when columns are inserted in a table that has one or more of its cells varying in width from their column as a whole. | |
| in Woody's Office Watch | ||
| WOW 4.32 | Typing, get over it! The standards and habits of the era of mechanical typing have been very hard to stamp out, even after nearly more than 20 years of word processing. | |
| WOW 4.34 | Shortcuts to Styles | |
| WOW 4.35 | Word Count Fix | |
| WOW 4.37 | Tracing Styles from templates to documents | |
| WOW 4.38 | Inside the Styles Gallery | |
| WOW 4.39 | Word Count Update from Microsoft | |
| WOW 4.41 | More Style Gallery and Templates | |
| WOW 4.42 | Suggestions to Improve Word | |
| WOW 4.43 | Office Skills You Need | |
| WOW 4.45 | Office Skills You Need 2 | |
| WOW 4.46 | What you need at a Word help desk | |
| WOW 5.02 | Strategies for Tables | |
| WOW 5.03 | Tables for Display or Organization | |
| WOW 5.04 | Strategies for Tables | |
| WOW 5.08 | Standardizing the Formatting of Tables | |
| WOW 5.09 | Using AutoText for Tables | |
| WOW 5.12 | Tables in Word 2000 + | |
| WOW 5.14 | When Table Formatting Goes Wrong | |
| WOW 5.19 | Tables - Columns, mice and keys | |
| WOW 5.23 | What happens when columns are inserted | |
| WOW 5.28 | Collaboration on collaboration | |
| WOW 5.29 | Collaboration on collaboration 2 | |
| WOW 5.30 | Collaboration on collaboration 3 | |
| WOW 5.33 | Comments about the Template Gallery | |
| WOW 5.35 | Collaboration on collaboration 4 | |
| WOW 5.36 | Comparison with CompareRite | |
| WOW 5.38 | Collaboration on collaboration 6 | |
| WOW 5.40 | Tracking Document Versions | |
| WOW 5.42 | MetaData | |
| WOW 5.45 | MetaData 2 | |
| WOW 5.54 | MetaData 3 (also found here) | |
| WOW 6.04 | Styles and Templates | |
| WOW 6.19 | Forms and Document Assembly | |
| WOW 6.21 | Word v. Word Perfect | |
| WOW 6.43 | Squished Justification * | |
| WOW 6.52 | Christmas Cards with Office * | |
| WOW 7.06 | Navigating in Word | |
| WOW 7.10 | Navigating in Word 2 | |
| WOW 7.13 | Navigating in Word 3 | |
| WOW 7.13 | Navigating in Word 3 | |
| WOW 7.19 | Navigating in Word 4 | |
| WOW 7.13 | Navigating in Word 3 | |
| WOW 7.13 | Navigating in Word 3 | |
| WOW 7.13 | Navigating in Word 3 | |
| WOW 7.13 | Navigating in Word 3 | |
| WOW 7.13 | Navigating in Word 3 | |
| WOW 7.13 | Navigating in Word 3 | |
| * Not Bob Blacksberg | ||
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