Microsoft Word is one of those programs that you instinctively think you’re a master in because you likely use it almost every day of your life.   Certainly if you had asked me after having worked with Word for well over a decade whether there was anything else I could know, I’d have said a firm “no.”   If, like I did, you think of Word as a mere text-based word processor, you’re probably only using a small portion of the software’s tools. To get the most out of Word, and in particular to unlock the features most useful to legal professionals, you need to appreciate that it is, in fact, a full-blown desktop publishing program.

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