Word processing and Practical Law Precedents
June 9, 2008
A good legal secretary will have excellent word processing skills which will help them understand how various documents and templates are set up so they can amend and alter the document without losing any formatting to font, paragraph spacing, numbering and automatic cross referencing. It’s vital that the document is presented clearly and consistently so that the law firm is represented professionally.
An example of how a legal document is formatted is a precedent from Practical Law.
- The document is split into sections: for the front sheet, table of contents and the body of the document.
- In each section the footer text will differ slightly and page numbering should start after the table of contents.
- The table of contents will automatically update to the text created in the body of the document by pressing the F9 key.
- Automatic numbering to paragraphs is applied using heading styles.
- Cross referencing throughout the document is applied which will automatically update if paragraphs are changed or added to.
Learning how to link and unlink headers and footers, create, amend and apply heading styles and insert and update cross referencing can easily be done with our online training courses.
Access to your own web-based learning course, online books and a mentoring service will give you everything you need to know to learn advanced word processing techniques.
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