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5 Jul 2011, 7:04 am
One key to increasing your efficiency in Microsoft Word (in addition to letting Word fix your typos) is keeping your hands off the mouse as much as possible. To do that, though, you need to know a few handy shortcut keys so you can format as your fingers fly. Try some of these and see if you don’t agree that it speeds things up.
Note: In these key combinations, CTRL refers to the Control key and SHIFT to the Shift key, located at the bottom of your PC keyboard. The plus sign… [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 2:03 pm
I’ve have friends call me all the time, inside and outside the legal industry, because I know a few things about computers. Regarding Microsoft Word, the number one complaint is always this:
“Mike, every time I open up Word it’s set to Calibri, 11-pt. font, and is double spaced with 10-pt. after-spacing. How do I set it to something normal so that every time I open up a new document, I don’t have to waste my time trying to figure out how to fix it?”
I’m glad you asked. When you open up… [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 7:30 am
By Jessica Orquina
Have you heard of six-word essays or flash fiction? It’s a unique genre of writing that focuses on sharing a meaningful story or idea in just six words. The idea of very short stories began before the digital age, but has begun to thrive recently as people share their stories via social networks. Six-word essays recently came to my attention and I thought it would a great way to celebrate the environment.
Today at EPA, we are launching the Six Words for the Planet project in… [read post]
29 Dec 2009, 11:29 am
What is Immoral or Scandalous Matter? Some may think this is a very subjective definition, but I assure you, the USPTO sees it differently. Here is what they have to say about it: “Section 2(a) of the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. §1052(a), is an absolute bar to the registration of immoral or scandalous matter on either the Principal Register or the Supplemental Register. Although the words “immoral” and “scandalous” may have somewhat different connotations, case law has included immoral… [read post]
10 Jul 2010, 11:26 pm
Apparently, if you own one of the diminishing number of retail shops that specializes in tobacco products, it doesn't really matter if you have a brand or a distinctive name, or not. Tell them what you sell, tell them you're open for business, and they will come, I guess.
This image got me thinking about how often this marketing strategy -- if it can be called a strategy -- works, and the circumstances that might permit a business to succeed, despite being brand-less, on the wrong end… [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 6:44 am
Frequently brand owners find themselves in the position of wanting or needing to explain the thinking behind their name, mark, and/or brand. Sometimes the explanations appear publicly on product packaging, websites, catalogs, brochures, advertising, and frequently in press releases, or perhaps in statements to reporters, especially when trademark litigation concerning the brand is involved. Such explanations about the brand's meaning also can be found in consultant's naming briefs that are… [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 8:29 pm
The FCC's indecency rules have, in recent months, twice been declared unconstitutional by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - essentially finding that the FCC's policies imposed unconstitutional restrictions on speech as they did not give broadcasters any way of determining what was permitted and what was prohibited. After seeking several extensions of time to determine whether to seek Supreme Court review of the Court of Appeals decisions, the FCC today released its Petition for… [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 5:11 am
A few months ago Adobe released a new online service called ExportPDF, which converts PDFs to Word documents while retaining the formatting. For $19.99 per year (automatically renewing) one can convert unlimited PDFs to Word documents. It seemed interesting and potentially useful, so I signed up.
As with any service, there are advantages and disadvantages not only to using Adobe ExportPDF, but the mere existence of the service. On the upside, for instance, you now have a simple method for turning… [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 12:40 pm
During 2011, Paul Hastings has been picking up partners. We previously mentioned their acquiring two prominent leveraged finance lawyers, Michael Michetti and Rich Farley, from Cahill Gordon. Additional hires, including Michael Baker from Shearman & Sterling and Steven Park from Finnegan Henderson, are listed on the PH website.Like any large firm, however, Paul Hastings loses partners too. We’ve just learned of two partners who are ankling PH for Nixon Peabody.Let’s find out who they are, get… [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 2:00 am
www.udrpcommentaries.comWe appear to have reached a stage on the Internet in which every dictionary word and many combinations have been spoken for as domain names. So much is this so that owners of newly minted trademarks composed of common words (who have not investigated domain name availability) find themselves having to buy the corresponding domain names from holders who have anticipated them. Although there have been quixotic proceedings to capture domain names, those acquired prior to… [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 12:42 pm
We got our hands on a new feature from the Fastcase Cloud Printing Suite recently that we’ve been looking forward to sharing with our readers. In our last review of the Fastcase Cloud Printing Suite, I mentioned that I was looking forward to experiencing the Cloud Printing integration with Microsoft Word. This feature takes your Word documents, parses through them, identifies the case citations within, and allows you to pull up any or all of the cases in one fell swoop.
While the browser plugin… [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 2:00 am
www.udrpcommentaries.comWe appear to have reached a stage on the Internet in which every dictionary word and many combinations have been spoken for as domain names. So much is this so that owners of newly minted trademarks composed of common words (who have not investigated domain name availability) find themselves having to buy the corresponding domain names from holders who have anticipated them. Although there have been quixotic proceedings to capture domain names, those acquired prior to… [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 7:11 am
In the last post on Microsoft Word’s Styles feature, we learned how to apply Styles to the text in your documents and how using Styles can enhance legal document readability and enforce consistent document standards.
Using the skills developed in the last Styles post, you can tweak an existing Style set to your liking. But how do you save it for future use? And can others in your workgroup use it, too?
Before we discuss sharing your new Styles (using Word 2010 to demonstrate), though,… [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 5:00 am
By providing a powerful and intuitive method to store, organize and search through large amounts of information on any computer, tablet or smart phone, Evernote provides lawyers with the ability to better organize their law practice. One of the most practical and valuable applications of Evernote in your law practice is in the realm of case management. If you aren’t familiar with Evernote and missed our previous post about it, Evernote is a cloud-based storage service for note taking and storing… [read post]
7 May 2012, 11:33 pm
Lotfi A. Zadeh Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:45 PM
Reply-To: bisc-group@lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
To: bisc-group@lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
*********************************************************************Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)*********************************************************************
Dear members of the BISC [Berkeley Initiative on Soft Computing] Group:
Sometimes labels are misleading. This applies to fuzzy logic. There are many kinds of logical
systems, some… [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 1:39 pm
We’ve been helping clients with their document generation needs since the WordPerfect 4.0 for DOS days. In other words, if you add in my prior Perfect Writer (remember it Kaypro users?) and Wordstar, we’ve pretty much seen it all over the decades (I used to say “over the years” – that doesn’t seem to cover it anymore). We’ve always focused on the most painless, most-assisted document generation experience whether using WordPerfect or Word. Of course, these days, the vast majority of… [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 6:15 am
While reading Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer (which by the way is a very good US blawg for those who are interested), I found out about a case where news anchor Tom Burlington at Fox 29 in Philadelphia was fired for using the n-word during a staff meeting at which reporters and producers were discussing reporter Robin Taylor’s story about the symbolic burial of the word by the Philadelphia Youth Council of the NAACP. To put it simply, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer:
The dispute began… [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 8:44 am
YMMV. [read post]
6 Dec 2012, 7:11 am
13 Nov 2012, 10:52 am
Oh, well... it would actually be an appropriate name for the book.
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