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Improve Your Adobe Acrobat Skills with These Advanced Acrobat Tips (August 14, 2020)

Lawyers deal with many digital documents and most of those are in PDF format. Every lawyer needs a PDF editing and creation tool. Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is the tool of choice for most law firms. One of the benefits of such broad adoption of Adobe Acrobat across legal and many other sectors is that...
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Dragon Anywhere is a Powerful Out-of-the-Office Dictation Tool (8.13.20)

In yesterday’s tip, we covered Dragon Naturally Speaking and its ability to create transcriptions of voice recordings made on mobile recorders or smart phones. If you do these types of transcriptions frequently, you may want to consider a subscription to Dragon Anywhere, the “professional-grade mobile dictation makes it easy to create documents of any length...
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Dragon Naturally Speaking Can Also Do Transcriptions of Recordings (8.12.20)

There are many speech recognition tools and devices. These can be time savers for lawyers. We hope you caught our previous tip Speech Recognition Is A Great Work From Home Tool (April 21, 2020) where we covered Dragon Naturally Speaking and Microsoft 365 dictation. But, did you know that you can record dictation on your...
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A Practice Management Software Solution is a Critical Office Management Tool (August 11, 2020)

Many Oklahoma lawyers use practice management solutions. During shelter-at-home time, those who had organized all of their client file information within cloud-based practice solutions could work from home with the same interface and with the same access to all relevant client information. Those who were working from paper client files ended up carting a lot...
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Six Things to Know Before Freezing Your Credit (August 10, 2020)

Many individuals have chosen to voluntarily freeze their credit. “A credit freeze is something you can put in place to limit others from viewing your credit reports, including lenders. Freezing your credit is an extreme step, but it's something that might be necessary if you're dealing with identity theft and other measures, such as fraud...
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Is It Time for Some Staff Reminders about COVID-19 Related Phishing Attacks? (August 7, 2020)

“In the past six months, the way we live and work has changed beyond recognition,” states Check Point’s Cyber Attack Trends 2020 Mid-Year Report. “To put it simply – life on earth has gone online. The change was not gradual but happened seemingly overnight.” Criminals go where the potential victims are. Phishing attacks have simply...
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Microsoft Task Management Tools Can Be a Challenge to Implement- Here’s a Great Guide (August 6, 2020)

A busy lawyer is often juggling dozens of projects, tasks and deadlines. Most lawyers delegate important tasks to legal assistants or other staff. But if the task you delegated could have profound negative consequences if missed, few lawyers are willing to delegate it and forget it. There needs to be tracking or monitoring of the...
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Would You Like an Office Chair Recommended by a Physical Therapist? (August 5, 2020)

When many lawyers started working significantly more hours from home, something became very painful. That pain started in the lower back and went up to the neck. The desk chairs they used in their home offices were not nearly the high quality of office chairs many used at work, which led to discomfort, pain and...
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The Snipping Tool is Good, but a More Powerful Tool is Snagit (August 4, 2020)

Yesterday, I posted about the features of the Snipping Tool and its usefulness, but today’s featured screen capture tool is even more powerful, even if it isn’t free. If you need a full featured tool that “snags” shots from your computer screen and allows you to edit them, then Snagit may be what you’re looking...
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The Snipping Tool—A Useful Screen Capture Utility Built Into Windows (August 3, 2020)

Today’s tip is known by many readers, but if you don’t use the Snipping tool, this may be the best tip you learn all day. It is one of my most-used utilities. While it is “just” a screen capture utility, it has as many uses as a Swiss army knife. With the Snipping tool, you...
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