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Despite [[Word]]’s universality and longevity and their supposedly superior analytical powers, few [[legal eagle]]s have the first clue how the devil [[Microsoft Word]] formatting works. They see the printed output of a document that looked all right to them on screen as some kind of ineffable magic — if it works — or the spurious ministrations of the capricious imp that inhabits their {{strike|typewriter|keyboard}}, when (as is inevitable) it does not. | Despite [[Word]]’s universality and longevity and their supposedly superior analytical powers, few [[legal eagle]]s have the first clue how the devil [[Microsoft Word]] formatting works. They see the printed output of a document that looked all right to them on screen as some kind of ineffable magic — if it works — or the spurious ministrations of the capricious imp that inhabits their {{strike|typewriter|keyboard}}, when (as is inevitable) it does not. | ||
It goes without saying that the more nuanced skills — multi-level list numbering, consistently applying pre-defined paragraph and character styles and | It goes without saying that the more nuanced skills — multi-level list numbering, consistently applying pre-defined paragraph and character styles and effectively manipulating tables — are beyond all but the most space-aged of legal brains. | ||
But most legal eagles struggle with the idea of a page break or a tab stop, and instead lean on the space bar or return key letting it coast out randomly into the middle of the page, or down until it runs off the bottom and only a new page. | |||
[[Lawyer]]s usually are quite good at using [[track changes]], however. Lawyers love track changes. They wish you could do track changes on emails and text messages, and will take some pains to replicate track changes by formatting in {{strike|red strikethrough and |blue underlining}}. | [[Lawyer]]s usually are quite good at using [[track changes]], however. Lawyers love track changes. They wish you could do track changes on emails and text messages, and will take some pains to replicate track changes by formatting in {{strike|red strikethrough and |blue underlining}}. | ||