Customer Reviews

Word 2003 for Law Firms

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When we decided to upgrade from Word 97 to Word 2003, I was worried about how I was going to learn all of the changes quickly. Since we didn't upgrade to Word XP (and I think there was another version before that even that we didn't go to)there was much to learn. For Word 97, the book Word 97 for Law Firms also by this author was my bible. This new book is even better and I'm happy to recommend it to anyone who uses Word in a law firm and needs to get up to speed quickly. It has a CD with practice files on it and there is a chapter on metadata (which my attorneys have been asking me about), and a great chapter on complex documents. The price of this book is a lot less expensive than a training class and it does a good job of covering all of the information that I need to know about.

Working in legal recruiting I am so surprised at how few individuals there are who are proficient in MS Word, especially using styles for either word processing or litigation secretary.

This book should be given to secretaries who are working in firms, by the firms, as a work book. It is a very essential tool for getting things done in Legal.

Our small firm recently upgraded from Word 97 to Word 2003. I don't think we could have done it without the help of this book. Word 2003 for Law Firms provided all of the information we needed to understand the 'pitfalls' and new features in Word 2003. Hats off to the writers for providing such a great resource!

A useful perspective if you are just starting out on upgrading to Office 2003 in a law firm from a previous version. Unfortunately this was published just a little late for us and we had done most of the legwork that this would have saved! It was still worth the purchase though for a couple of pointers that have allowed us to tweak settings that help to avoid problems.

I found the information on Outline numbering much too simplistic to be helpful for troubleshooting numbering problems. There is no mention that using the bullets and numbering dialog box is known to cause document corruption, and of course this is a particular problem in complex legal documents.

We do use it though as a handy reference for reminding us in IT what the concerns of our users are likely to be and a reminder of their level of understanding.