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Document Renovation

By Randall Farrar
February 01, 2012

Documents are the currency of law firms. Attorneys author, edit and submit thousands of documents daily. While content is the most important aspect of legal documents, and the majority of time should be spent on this, the formatting of a document can often create issues and burn up precious billable hours. The time spent reformatting and cleaning up documents can be reduced significantly if firms have a process in place for creating and fixing documents based on Microsoft Word's best practices.

The catchall term for fixing formatting issues in documents has been traditionally called “document cleanup.” There are powerful and complex tools on the market that do a great job of cleaning up and fixing documents. However, document cleanup is only part of the renovation process, and this part can be greatly reduced if the right tools and training are in place.

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