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pleading format macro
Does anybody have a macro to insert into an existing document that inserts
pleading format - line number and borders?? Or a suggestion to prevent losing the formatting of a document when cut and pasted into the pleading template? Unfortunately I get documents from somebody who doesn't use styles. . . and I have to reformat everything when I paste into template. |
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Why not paste the document into one based on a template that includes the
line numbers and borders? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message ... Does anybody have a macro to insert into an existing document that inserts pleading format - line number and borders?? Or a suggestion to prevent losing the formatting of a document when cut and pasted into the pleading template? Unfortunately I get documents from somebody who doesn't use styles. . . and I have to reformat everything when I paste into template. |
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Because the formatting is lost (italics, bold, spacing, etc.) styles are not
being used by the attorneys and when you are working on a large number of documents at one time cutting and pasting, renaming and reformatting them all is not really an effective use of time and there is always the risk of getting interrupted and saving over something wrong. I CANNOT be the only who is so frustrated with this in Word. I purchased a book specifically for law firms to help with this and they do nothing but push their software and give you instructions for the wizard, which is useless to me. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why not paste the document into one based on a template that includes the line numbers and borders? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message ... Does anybody have a macro to insert into an existing document that inserts pleading format - line number and borders?? Or a suggestion to prevent losing the formatting of a document when cut and pasted into the pleading template? Unfortunately I get documents from somebody who doesn't use styles. . . and I have to reformat everything when I paste into template. |
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If the new template contains the same styles you're pasting in, formatting
should not be lost. OTOH, turning on line numbering and a single-side page border should not be that difficult. If what you want is the text box + drawing line combination that's found in the Pleading Wizard, then why not save that as an AutoText entry and insert it in the header of the existing document? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message news Because the formatting is lost (italics, bold, spacing, etc.) styles are not being used by the attorneys and when you are working on a large number of documents at one time cutting and pasting, renaming and reformatting them all is not really an effective use of time and there is always the risk of getting interrupted and saving over something wrong. I CANNOT be the only who is so frustrated with this in Word. I purchased a book specifically for law firms to help with this and they do nothing but push their software and give you instructions for the wizard, which is useless to me. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why not paste the document into one based on a template that includes the line numbers and borders? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message ... Does anybody have a macro to insert into an existing document that inserts pleading format - line number and borders?? Or a suggestion to prevent losing the formatting of a document when cut and pasted into the pleading template? Unfortunately I get documents from somebody who doesn't use styles. . . and I have to reformat everything when I paste into template. |
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The attorney is not using styles - I have to reformat headings, double
indents, with cites, etc. It is difficult because there are several steps and they are not lined out anywhere - it is assumed that the wizard is adequate (it is not) and there are not specific step by step directions and I would assume they are lengthy to get the format correct to specifics. We use a double line on the left with numbering and a sinlge line right. To do that over and over is ridiculous - working in a law office you would do this repetitively day after day. Also, the line numbering spacing gets messed up when inserting text and cutting and pasting. I have tried autotext - it works on a new blank document, but not in a document that is already created. Also, we are emailing the documents to other attorneys and when we get them back some have line numbers missing. From the number of posts on this topic I really think your pleading wizard needs some serious help and more instructions specific to attorneys and staff. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If the new template contains the same styles you're pasting in, formatting should not be lost. OTOH, turning on line numbering and a single-side page border should not be that difficult. If what you want is the text box + drawing line combination that's found in the Pleading Wizard, then why not save that as an AutoText entry and insert it in the header of the existing document? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message news Because the formatting is lost (italics, bold, spacing, etc.) styles are not being used by the attorneys and when you are working on a large number of documents at one time cutting and pasting, renaming and reformatting them all is not really an effective use of time and there is always the risk of getting interrupted and saving over something wrong. I CANNOT be the only who is so frustrated with this in Word. I purchased a book specifically for law firms to help with this and they do nothing but push their software and give you instructions for the wizard, which is useless to me. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why not paste the document into one based on a template that includes the line numbers and borders? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message ... Does anybody have a macro to insert into an existing document that inserts pleading format - line number and borders?? Or a suggestion to prevent losing the formatting of a document when cut and pasted into the pleading template? Unfortunately I get documents from somebody who doesn't use styles. . . and I have to reformat everything when I paste into template. |
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Well, it's not *my* Pleading Wizard. I didn't create it, and I've never used
it, nor would I. You'd be much better off creating a template that does what you want and requiring attorneys to use it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message ... The attorney is not using styles - I have to reformat headings, double indents, with cites, etc. It is difficult because there are several steps and they are not lined out anywhere - it is assumed that the wizard is adequate (it is not) and there are not specific step by step directions and I would assume they are lengthy to get the format correct to specifics. We use a double line on the left with numbering and a sinlge line right. To do that over and over is ridiculous - working in a law office you would do this repetitively day after day. Also, the line numbering spacing gets messed up when inserting text and cutting and pasting. I have tried autotext - it works on a new blank document, but not in a document that is already created. Also, we are emailing the documents to other attorneys and when we get them back some have line numbers missing. From the number of posts on this topic I really think your pleading wizard needs some serious help and more instructions specific to attorneys and staff. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If the new template contains the same styles you're pasting in, formatting should not be lost. OTOH, turning on line numbering and a single-side page border should not be that difficult. If what you want is the text box + drawing line combination that's found in the Pleading Wizard, then why not save that as an AutoText entry and insert it in the header of the existing document? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message news Because the formatting is lost (italics, bold, spacing, etc.) styles are not being used by the attorneys and when you are working on a large number of documents at one time cutting and pasting, renaming and reformatting them all is not really an effective use of time and there is always the risk of getting interrupted and saving over something wrong. I CANNOT be the only who is so frustrated with this in Word. I purchased a book specifically for law firms to help with this and they do nothing but push their software and give you instructions for the wizard, which is useless to me. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why not paste the document into one based on a template that includes the line numbers and borders? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message ... Does anybody have a macro to insert into an existing document that inserts pleading format - line number and borders?? Or a suggestion to prevent losing the formatting of a document when cut and pasted into the pleading template? Unfortunately I get documents from somebody who doesn't use styles. . . and I have to reformat everything when I paste into template. |
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I concur in Suzanne's judgment of the pleading wizard. It certainly is much
more work than creating a custom template for your jurisdiction(s) and using that template. If your attorneys used such a template, they would be using styles, even if they knew nothing about styles, because you would put them in the template along with some macrobutton fields to prompt for places they should start typing. See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide...tm#MacroButton, http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...acroButton.htm for more about macrobutton fields. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "A Leech" wrote in message ... The attorney is not using styles - I have to reformat headings, double indents, with cites, etc. It is difficult because there are several steps and they are not lined out anywhere - it is assumed that the wizard is adequate (it is not) and there are not specific step by step directions and I would assume they are lengthy to get the format correct to specifics. We use a double line on the left with numbering and a sinlge line right. To do that over and over is ridiculous - working in a law office you would do this repetitively day after day. Also, the line numbering spacing gets messed up when inserting text and cutting and pasting. I have tried autotext - it works on a new blank document, but not in a document that is already created. Also, we are emailing the documents to other attorneys and when we get them back some have line numbers missing. From the number of posts on this topic I really think your pleading wizard needs some serious help and more instructions specific to attorneys and staff. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If the new template contains the same styles you're pasting in, formatting should not be lost. OTOH, turning on line numbering and a single-side page border should not be that difficult. If what you want is the text box + drawing line combination that's found in the Pleading Wizard, then why not save that as an AutoText entry and insert it in the header of the existing document? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message news Because the formatting is lost (italics, bold, spacing, etc.) styles are not being used by the attorneys and when you are working on a large number of documents at one time cutting and pasting, renaming and reformatting them all is not really an effective use of time and there is always the risk of getting interrupted and saving over something wrong. I CANNOT be the only who is so frustrated with this in Word. I purchased a book specifically for law firms to help with this and they do nothing but push their software and give you instructions for the wizard, which is useless to me. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why not paste the document into one based on a template that includes the line numbers and borders? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "A Leech" wrote in message ... Does anybody have a macro to insert into an existing document that inserts pleading format - line number and borders?? Or a suggestion to prevent losing the formatting of a document when cut and pasted into the pleading template? Unfortunately I get documents from somebody who doesn't use styles. . . and I have to reformat everything when I paste into template. |
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Oh, PS:
Stay late one evening. Go into each atty's computer, and change their command keys around, so that Control+B will enter the "Strong" style and Control+I will enter the "Emphasis" style. Etc. That way, they'll be applying formatting without realizing it. :-) Think they would catch on? *(((({ In the last exciting episode on Sun, 14 May 2006 17:49:01 -0500, "Charles Kenyon" wrote: I concur in Suzanne's judgment of the pleading wizard. It certainly is much more work than creating a custom template for your jurisdiction(s) and using that template. If your attorneys used such a template, they would be using styles, even if they knew nothing about styles, because you would put them in the template along with some macrobutton fields to prompt for places they should start typing. See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide...tm#MacroButton, http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...acroButton.htm for more about macrobutton fields. |
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