Topics Addressed 

• Customizing Word's interface 
• Fixing Default Formatting in New Documents 
• Preventing Random Formatting Changes in Existing Documents 
• Fixing Programmatical Default Settings 

Problems solved: 

✔️ Make Word considerably less annoying 

✔️ Configure Word’s interface so it works better for legal users 

✔️ Finally get rid of the Calibri and Aptos fonts from your new documents 

✔️ Fix all of Word’s programmatical settings that irritate users 

✔️ Identify and solve the reason that the formatting of many documents seems to have a mind of its own 

Topics Addressed 

• Navigating Legal-Specific Security and Ethics Issues 
• Tracking Changes 
• Comparing Documents 
• Adding Watermarks 

Problems Solved: 

✔️ Make sure you aren’t unwittingly sending damaging information to opposing counsel in your Word documents 

✔️ Stop worrying about metadata 

✔️ How to convert .doc files to .docx the right way 

✔️ Negotiate documents electronically in a manner that you’ll easily be able to identify how another party (like opposing counsel) has edited your document 

✔️ Skillfully use Track Changes, Compare Documents, and add comments to your documents 

✔️ Feel confident you’re using the right file type (Word or PDF) 

Topics Addressed 

• Reviewing Documents 
• Navigating Long Documents  
• Enabling Multiple Clipboards 
• Using Advanced Techniques for Text Selection, Copy/Paste, and Find/Replace 

Problems Solved: 

✔️ Master Word’s tools for reviewing documents without printing them 

✔️ Easily find anything in your document and replace it with something else if desired 

✔️ Copy up to 24 different pieces of text and paste any of them in without re-copying anything 

✔️ Quickly and easily navigate long, complex documents 

✔️ Understand how your Windows display settings can significantly change the way Word’s interface appears on your computer 

Topics Addressed 

• Understanding the Difference Between Font, Paragraph, and Style Formatting 
• Inserting Symbols and Non-Breaking Spaces and Hyphens  
• Holding Lines, Paragraphs, and Titles Together Automatically 
• Creating Better Page Breaks and Vertical Spaces 

Problems Solved: 

✔️ Easily fix any rogue formatting in your document 

✔️ Get font and paragraph formatting to do anything you want 

✔️ Prevent awkward page breaks (such as a title being left at the bottom of a page while the following paragraph is at the top of the next page) from happening in the first place 

✔️ Eliminate traditional page breaks which often end up on separate pages by themselves which causes blank pages to appear in the middle of your document 

✔️ Add symbols to your documents faster using buttons or shortcut keys 

Topics Addressed 

• Setting and Modifying Tabs and Indents 
• Setting Up Signature Lines 
• Creating Clause Libraries 
• Adding and Manipulating End Notes and Footnotes 

Problems Solved: 

✔️ Get your text to line up correctly no matter what (master tabs and indents) 

✔️ Add any clause or section of text you use often into any document you’re editing with 2 clicks (and without copying and pasting) 

✔️ Get tables to behave and control their formatting 

✔️ Easily make your footnotes look exactly the way you want without selecting any of them 

✔️ Create much better signature lines 

Topics Addressed 

• Using Section Breaks 
• Establishing Complex Page Number Schemes 
• Controlling Headers and Footers 
• Setting Up Columns  

Problems Solved: 

✔️ You’ll learn how to add and remove section breaks and when they’re appropriate 

✔️ Get Word’s page numbering to do anything you want 

✔️ Finally get headers and footers under control 

✔️ Keep columns within certain boundaries so they don’t automatically affect your entire document 

Topics Addressed 

• Automating Tedious Tasks 
• Recording Macros  
• Assigning Macros to Buttons or Speedkeys 
• Generating Documents Automatically Through Mail Merge 

Problems Solved: 

✔️ Work faster by using macros to automate tedious tasks in Word 

✔️ Answer a client’s name once and have it automatically show up everywhere else you need it 

✔️ Generate complex documents much faster by learning how to use Word’s built-in document automation functionality 

Topics Addressed 

• Differentiating Between Direct Formatting and Styles Formatting  
• Controlling Styles and Making Them Easier to Use 
• Using the Navigation Pane 
• Importing Styles Into a Document You’re Editing 

Problems Solved: 

✔️ Control your formatting in any document by learning to control styles 

✔️ Fix Word’s default formatting in new documents 

✔️ Navigate even the longest documents easily and quickly 

Topics Addressed 

• Properly Constructing and Applying a Single Paragraph Numbering Scheme 
• Properly Constructing and Applying a Multilevel Paragraph Numbering Scheme
• Modifying Pre-Existing Numbering Schemes

 Problems Solved: 

✔️ Establish any type of single or multi-level automatic paragraph numbering scheme in a new document 

✔️ Identify how an existing numbering scheme has been established and modify it to do whatever you want 

✔️ Learn how to impose an automatic numbering scheme on a document in which all of the paragraph numbers have been manually typed 

Topics Addressed 

• Differentiating Between Multilevel Lists and List Styles 
• Modifying Styles and Attaching Paragraph Numbers to Them 
• Creating Automatic Cross-References 

Problems Solved: 

✔️ Learn the best way to set up paragraph numbering schemes, store them, re-use them, and share them with others 

✔️ Complete your styles knowledge by learning how to attach automatic paragraph numbers to styles so the paragraph numbering is bullet-proof 

✔️ Create cross references 

Topics Addressed 

• Setting Up Line Numbers in Pleadings 
• Generating an Automatic Table of Contents 
• Controlling the Formatting of a Table of Contents 
• Creating Multiple Tables of Contents From Different Parts of a Document 

Problems Solved: 

✔️ Never manually type a table of contents again 

✔️ Easily control the formatting of a table of contents 

✔️ Learn the role Styles play in tables of contents 

Topics Addressed 

• Generating and Automatic Table of Authorities 
• Controlling the Formatting of a Table of Authorities 
• Fixing Mistakes in Identifying Citations 

Problems Solved: 

✔️ Learn how to do arguably the hardest task in Word—tables of authority 

✔️ Easily control the formatting of a table of authorities 

✔️ Easily fix any mistake made while tagging citations for a table of authorities 

✔️ Learn all of the strange little rules that apply when generating a table of authorities 

No, this course will focus exclusively on Microsoft Word. Some of the concepts may also apply to other word processors, but they will not be specifically addressed. 

Each session will start at 12pm Eastern and last for about one hour. 

There will be 12 sessions, one per month from May 2024 to April 2025. 

This course will be taught live, meaning attendees will have the chance to ask questions and participate interactively. 

No, this class is not for CLE credit. However, if you would like to book Barron for a CLE training session, you can do so here. 

Yes, if you buy a seat to a session, you will get the recording as well. Best of all: The recording never expires!  

While it is helpful for everyone to be on the same page, most of the courses don't build directly on one another. You can catch up with the on-demand recording if you would like, but it's not necessary.

We'd love to chat! Please email us at [email protected].