Get on top of your legal drafts and manage them with confidence under pressing deadlines. This trio of courses will give you a solid skill set, empowering you to get things done correctly, securely and fast.

The skill set training includes ...

What will you learn?

  • Format documents correctly from the start

  • Use styles and draft pane to find the source of formatting issues

  • Paste correctly without damaging your document's layout

  • Reduce drafting time with shortcuts

  • Change author names belonging to new versions or adjustments

  • Benefits of using the compare function over track changes for amendments

  • Address formatting problems correctly and enduringly

Who is this skill set for?

Lawyers - Secretaries - Document specialists

All courses and webcasts in this skill set focus on the most essential knowledge that professionals working on legal drafts need.
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Legal professional learning about Microsoft Word skills

How long is it going to take?

The modules in the courses are no longer than 10 minutes to give you the flexibility to progress at a pace that suits you and be able to pause between ideas. The three courses all together will take you 90 minutes.

Meet the expert

Bluebird Operations Director and Microsoft Specialist

Leanne Bentley

Leanne's expertise is built on 35 years of legal secretarial experience at some of the largest law firms in Sydney and London, with 25 of those years spent as a Microsoft Word specialist. Now Operations Director of Bluebird Support Services, Leanne uses her expertise and coalface experience in law firms to provide an invaluable extension to firms’ teams through a range of business support services. As an expert of the entire Microsoft Office suite, Leanne makes lawyers’ days less stressful and law firms more profitable. Leanne says “With a little help, lawyers and their secretaries can easily be more efficient and far less stressed. They are always amazed when I show them how very easy it can be when you know how”.