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1. Technology applications for the law office: reviews and comments.
2. Technology issues for law offices: electronic discovery, privacy and security, etc.
3. Law of Technology: intellectual property, civil, criminal issues and technology.

We are soliciting reviews and comments on law office technology, products and programs. To submit a review please contact Allen Turner. SBCBA Webstaff. email to turner @ attorney. sbcba . org . or call 1 847 886 4545 or SKYPE allen.turner

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

TextMap

TextMap
By Marjory Harris, Esq.
Analyze Evidence – and more -- with TextMap
For some years I have been using software from CaseSoft, a company dedicated to creating
software products for litigators. I am currently beta testing CaseMap 10, a tool for organizing
and analyzing facts, and will report on it later this year; I frequently create outlines with NoteMap
and graphic timelines with TimeMap. But the product I use most is TextMap, a transcript
summary tool.Read on >>>>

Monday, January 16, 2012

Case Management Program---myBase

myBase for Windows
By Marjory Harris, Esq.
Does Your Case Management Program Do It All?
In my experience with various programs, starting when the PC first became available, no database, no matter how much I customized it, did everything I wanted or needed to handle all my cases. As I added more and more fields and forms/records to display the information, the database became unwieldy. And, after all that work on complex cases, the database stored the results in a particular client's record, so making parts of the information available for other similar cases required tedious, time consuming cutting and pasting.  Read on >>>>

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

More Keyboard Shortcuts -->

MS Word Shortcuts|

1. Ctrl + E : Center alignment of the paragraph
2. Ctrl + L : Left alignment of the paragraph
3. Ctrl + R : Right alignment of the paragraph
4. Ctrl + J : Justify alignment of the paragraph
5. Ctrl + Right Arrow : Moves one word to the right
6. Ctrl + Left Arrow : Moves one word to the left
7. Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow : Selects one word to the right.
8. Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow : Selects one word to the left.
9. Shift + Down Arrow: Selects the entire line by placing the cursor at the start of the line
10. Shift + Up Arrow: Selects the entire line by placing the cursor at the end of the line
11. Ctrl + ] : Increases the font size by 1 point
12. Ctrl + [ : Decreases the font size by 1 point
13. Shift + F3 : Changes to word / sentence to UPPER case, lower case and Sentence case. (Same as Format > Change Case in toolbar)
14. Ctrl + Enter : Page Break from the point cursor is placed
15. Ctrl + 1 : Single line spacing
16. Ctrl + 5 : 1.5 line spacing
17. Ctrl + 2 : Double line spacing
18. Ctrl + Backspace : Delete one word to left
19. Ctrl + Delete: Delete one word to right
20. Alt + n: Bullets and Numberings.
and ... My personal favorite:
21. Ctrl + z: undo last action