To create documents many of us use Microsoft Word and to work with digital documents we use Acrobat.  Those two programs together with the features of the operating system is often all we need to do most things in a law office.  

Of all the things I have learned about computers and the web, this topic is perhaps the most important.  Styles gives complete control over the way documents look, allow simultaneous formatting throughout an entire document, and how Word creates tables of contents in seconds.  This movie is the first video in the Paperless Express Step 2.1 Making Office Letterhead which includes a video on tables of contents as well.

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Some documents, e.g. anything submitted to a court, requires text, e.g. the the descriptive captions, that can be very difficult to format with spaces, return, and tab. Text boxes solve the problem very easily. A text box operates independent of the rest of the document so you can drag it around, put it where you like and have your papers look exactly how you like.  Word 2007 has a number of decorative text boxes that can be useful for letterhead or marketing materials but the "Draw text box" function from the insert menu is the basic item useful for pleadings...

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