Legal Office Guru

Weekly Roundup: Tips for redlining documents, tweaking Word Options, saving emails as pdfs, and fixing line spacing

The Guru — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:20:43 +0000

For this week's Roundup: several reasons you might not want to employ Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature the next time you redline a document, getting under the hood with Word Options (even if you're not a techie), another way to save Outlook email as a pdf (in case you want to take it with you on your iPad or other mobile device), and one possible reason your line spacing changes won't stick in Word.

Weekly Roundup: Double-click shortcuts, the case of the missing ampersand, and more Office for iPad news

The Guru — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:53:01 +0000

This week: Stop wandering around Microsoft Word's Ribbon looking for commands and do some strategic double-clicking instead, why putting an ampersand in your Excel header or footer yields a weird result (and what to do if you really, really want that "&" to show up in your header or footer), and more news about an exciting iPad application that lets you edit Office documents. That's right ... it's the Weekly Roundup! Click the link to read the rest ...

Guest Post @ Lawyerist: 5 Ways to Shrink Your Outlook PST File Size

The Guru — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:37:18 +0000

If your Microsoft Outlook .pst file (the one that holds all your messages, calendar items, contacts, and tasks) is getting a little heavy, here are five ways you can trim it down.

Weekly Roundup: Popular Word fixes, Excel row headers, and Office for iPad

The Guru — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:59:35 +0000

Now that it's past the annual holiday season here in the US, it's back in the saddle again for the Weekly Roundup. This week: Microsoft Office blog does its own list of most popular posts (including a couple of issues that continually plague legal office users), a quick-and-dirty Excel tutorial on printing title rows, and an exciting rumor for iPad users.

Guest Post @ Lawyerist: Managing Outlook Reminders

The Guru — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:16:23 +0000

That Reminders window in Microsoft Outlook is a great thing … until it starts annoying the living daylights out of you. You know you ignore it at your peril, but how do you use it without it driving you crazy? My latest guest post on Lawyerist shows you how.