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Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010 for Law Professionals Unveiling the Rules and Secrets of Legal Word Processing

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I'm an attorney who has been doing my own wordprocessing for two decades using WordPerfect. I am by no means computer savvy, but I could prepare all the documents I needed to carry on a legal practice. Unfortunately, some of my clients have started to ask that I send them documents in Word. I tried to teach myself Word from Word 2007, but I had problems, particularly in preparing pleadings. This book sounded like exactly what i needed. No such luck.
It very quickly gets complicated and I was soon lost. In addition, I would have thought that a book specifically for legal wordprocessing would have discussed pleadings specifically. Nope. There are not enough illustrations accompanying the text and the index is sorely lacking. An example of the problem i'm having is that sometimes a few lines of text will act as a block and if I try to delete something from the beginning or end, the entire "block" will be deleted. Nothing like this happened in WordPerfect and I have no idea why it's happening here. If this book contains an explanation for what's going on, it is well hidden. Perhaps if one has been working in Word for a long time, this book would have helped. All i know is that it was no help for me. So now I'm looking for the right book to help me figure out how to prepare the documents I could easily prepare in WordPerfect in Word 2007/2010.

The reason I love this book is because it teaches you to look at a document and KNOW which feature in Microsoft Word you should use to format. If you're a word processing specialist or want to be, you know that 'legal word processing' is nothing more than proper word processing. The direction this book takes is based on how word processing is approached in international law firms. I use it when I forget a particular series of steps for formatting, or keyboard shortcut reminders. Whether you're working on a pleading, agreement, etc., formatting is not about the document type. Its about the paragraphs, the pages and the sections. If you're looking to learn how the big firms do it, this is the book for you. If you're looking for something different, go and purchase a Microsoft Step-by Step book. This company also teaches the course based on the book, which I took online after being out of the industry for a while and needed a refresher. FABULOUS. Great trainers.

This book is extraordinarily fundemental. It covers the very basics of MS Word and styles. Nothing in the book is specific to the needs of law firms. For example, drafting pleadings is a big bit of work for many firms. There is no a word about how to develop a pleading template.

The title is misleading, it is not a book for lawyers. It is does have good information for someone who has never used Word. Even for this use, it is a bare bones introduction. I do not recommend this book.

I found this book to be poorly organized and not at all specific in the information it gave (which wasn't much). There is a lot to legal word processing and although it's nice that this book is not heavy like the more thorough books on this topic, it is unfortunately pretty useless.

This is an outstanding book. I am also taking the online course with Eileen Williams. She is a wonderful teacher, and teaches valuble tools needed to work as a legal secretary/paralegal/lawyer/word processor/ in navigating Word 2007-2010.

I have been in the legal professional many years but I had very little knowledge of Word. Technology and Word are advancing at lightning speed and KAS teaches you how to advance and keep pace with current technology.

KAS doesn't waste any time. This book gets right to the CORE of using Word applications strictly for the legal profession. It breaks down Word into essential legal word processing applications---using Word without macros---essential in understanding how to actually use Word in all legal environments, i.e., table of contents, table of authorities, outline techniques, imbedded numbering re contracts, legal briefs, etc.

I believe it is essential all legal personnel buy this book, and I highly recommend the course. I wouldn't waste time with other Word books, because this book applies all essential elements needed for the legal profession.