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Please include Bluebook legal citation style in Word 2007
Law students and other legal writers use citations very often. While the
Word 2007 beta includes many different citation styles, Bluebook or ALWD citations styles (the two most common and most important legal citation styles) have not been included. Please include them in the final release. Tens of thousands of law students will thank you for making their lives easier! ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Please include Bluebook legal citation style in Word 2007
If it's not in there now, I would not expect it in the final version.
While the citation system in 2007 is neat, I don't consider it sufficient for any graduate student involved in research. I would suggest to look into dedicated citation/bibliography managers, e.g. EndNote. The best thing you can do is take a look at your university library's website or talk to a librarian. Many universities provide such programs for students, but this is often not widely known. Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "apkawel" wrote in message : Law students and other legal writers use citations very often. While the Word 2007 beta includes many different citation styles, Bluebook or ALWD citations styles (the two most common and most important legal citation styles) have not been included. Please include them in the final release. Tens of thousands of law students will thank you for making their lives easier! ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Please include Bluebook legal citation style in Word 2007
Hi Apkawel,
To add one bit to Patrick's reply be sure to use the 2007 Office feedback tool from the link below to send your suggestion directly to the MS Office 2007 product team. While it may not be included in the upcoming initial release of Office 2007's retail product the suggestion may be something that would come out in the next version or even as a download at some point in the 2007 product life. ========= "apkawel" wrote in message ... Law students and other legal writers use citations very often. While the Word 2007 beta includes many different citation styles, Bluebook or ALWD citations styles (the two most common and most important legal citation styles) have not been included. Please include them in the final release. Tens of thousands of law students will thank you for making their lives easier! -- I hope this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office system products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends LINKS to the 2007 Office System 1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages: http://microsoft.com/learning/office...oksfrommspress 2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta, e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies: http://microsoft.com/office/preview 3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool: http://sas.office.microsoft.com/ 4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007 a. Install the ActiveX access control http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...XT101650581033 b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net |
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Please include Bluebook legal citation style in Word 2007
I completely agree that a Bluebook style would be great. As that's probably
not going to happen, I'd like an easy option to modify existing styles and essentially create my own style. In the meantime, here are some commerical software options I've seen: www.cit-r-us.com - Bluebook practioner, 18th ed. and promises to update as editions come out. www.citeit.com - Bluebook and AWLD, uses 17th ed. Bluebook "which is the most current edition"; note: currently in the process of updateing for Vista compatability and not available for purchase or download. www.citationonline.net/9-home.asp - Bluebook (law review & practioner) and AWLD. I haven't tried any of them, so I have no idea how good they are. Citation 9 looks decent because it allows you to compile and organize notes as you research, and then creates the citation when you pull from your notes. |
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Please include Bluebook legal citation style in Word 2007
On 10 jul, 15:42, Teri wrote:
I completely agree that a Bluebook style would be great. *As that's probably not going to happen, I'd like an easy option to modify existing styles and essentially create my own style. In the meantime, here are some commerical software options I've seen:www.cit-r-us.com- Bluebook practioner, 18th ed. and promises to update as editions come out.www.citeit.com- Bluebook and AWLD, uses 17th ed. Bluebook "which is the most current edition"; note: currently in the process of updateing for Vista compatability and not available for purchase or download.www.citationonline.net/9-home.asp- Bluebook (law review & practioner) and AWLD. I haven't tried any of them, so I have no idea how good they are. *Citation 9 looks decent because it allows you to compile and organize notes as you research, and then creates thecitationwhen you pull from your notes. Hi Teri, Unless you only want to change some really basic stuff, like square brackets instead of round brackets around in-text citations, I would strongly advise against trying to change any of the existing styles to fit your needs. The stylesheets provided with Word 2007 are not cleaned up and contain way more functionality than is used by each of the styles separately. Also, the templates lack every form of documentation and take into account different languages and stuff. As a result, they are highly complex and rather difficult to understand. Creating your own stylesheet from scratch is much easier if you ask me. If you are interested in doing so, I suggest you read the blogpost at http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_offi...ions-1011.aspx to get you started. At http://www.codeplex.com/bibliography you can find some templates which could help you with the creation of your own style. I also implemented an IEEE stylesheet which is a lot less complex than the ones which come with Word 2007. Maybe you can use it as a guideline. Yves |
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