I am behind the times and need your help: please share any resources you have on the tips/tricks/shortcuts/macros you use to make drafting in Microsoft Word a little bit easier.

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Taking the time to create styles in a template document has saved me time and again. It automatically numbers, indents, and formats paragraphs of the same style. It’s way easier than using the outlining feature imo

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I’ve used docs where cross references auto update, but then show an error when saving as a pdf. So frustrating when that happens when you think you’re done piecing together a closing binder :/

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Just got on this bowl and learned something, but you should google how to do shortcut keys because (1) you find out a number of shortcuts for actions you take on word all the time and didn’t know it and (2) you can change the short cut to something YOU remember. Like I never use ALT for anything, so instead of doing “ctrl shift ALT 122bg+*” or whatever, I’m like “ATL A”.


I say this because my best shortcut hacks, since my world is tracked changes, are “AcceptSelected”, “RejectSelected”, “Add Comment”, “ReplyComment”, “DeleteComment”, etc...without ever touching the mouse and moving through 100s pages.

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My assistant showed me that you can hold ctrl and c at the same time to copy things. And then ctrl and v to paste them. I use that a lot now.

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Love that tip! Brilliant

Learning some frequently used keyboard shortcuts is really helpful for me. Like ctrl+shift+k for small caps toggle. Ctrl+delete or ctrl+backspace for deleting whole words instead of each letter. Format painter (ctrl+shift+c / v) is also extremely helpful. And assign some keyboard shortcuts to symbols like the section symbol and paragraph symbol.

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Anyone know of a good online training session for Word for lawyers? And Excel while we're at it?

Checkout Procertas. We did a Procertas course in law school as part of Legal Research and I learned a lot. Not sure how much it costs.

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