Word 2008 is the latest release by Microsoft for Mac and it has some great features for lawyers.  The Notebook view is great for outlining and recording voice notes.  With the Scrapbook, you can save parts or entire documents and drag them out to write a letter in seconds.  With the Project Gallery your files are organized and it coverts each into the equivalent of template.  Very fast, very easy.

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Making a table of contents for a brief, memorandum of law or any other lengthy legal document can be very easy and fast.  I have seen colleagues actually type it out but there is no reason to spend more than a few minutes making a perfect table of contents every time. 

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Some documents, e.g. anything submitted to a court,  requires text, e.g. the the descriptive captions,  that can be very diffuclt to do with spaces, return, and tab. Text boxes solve the problem very easily.  A text box operates independent of the rest of the document so you can drag it around, put it where you like and have your papers look exactly how you like. 

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Lawyers can save hours by using the find and replace feature in Word.  Once you have a document open simply open the find box by pressing “cmd” (“crtl” on PC) plus the “F” key and enter a search term of a search and replace.

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