The third part of a three part series on using Styles in Microsoft Word focuses on the team effort required for successful planning, design and deployment.

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The first of a three part series on mastering styles when writing and editing legal documents with Microsoft Word, now published on the Microsystems Blog. Winning Strategies for Word Wrestling explores and illustrates the benefits of documents that make thorough and consistent use of styles. These blog posts will make contemporary the analysis and advice I began in Woody’s Office Watch in 1999 with The Seven Laws of Styles.

I suggest there are four kinds of technology users. I borrow from one of the central instruction manuals in my life, the Haggadah, used each spring on Passover to teach the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Read my essay, published on the Microsystems blog, by clicking here.

Microsystems is publishing my white paper on its Contract Companion (formerly EagleEye) product in 10 serial episodes. The white paper explores in depth the needs for empowered agreement drafting and checking with Contract Companion’s capabilities. Episodes appear every Thursday on Microsystems social media pages:

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The episodes can be found here:

• Episode 1 – Formal Documents – A Transactional Lawyer’s Stock in Trade
• Episode 2 – At Stake – From Liability to Reputation
• Episode 3 – Squeezed in a Vice – Drivers Affecting Transactional Law Practice
• Episode 4 – Embracing Technology for Transaction Document Drafting
• Episode 5 – Document Dissection
• Episode 6 – Hard at Work in a Lawyer’s Hands
• Episode 7 – Practices, Roles and Responsibilities
• Episode 8 – Lives of Transactions
• Episode 9 – Keys to Success
• Episode 10 – Challenges and Opportunties