Do the users in your firm understand how to use paragraph numbering, styles and templates in Microsoft Word, or are they struggling day after day to create complex documents? Microsoft Word is a very powerful program, yet few Word users are truly comfortable with the features that are needed on a day-to-day basis.

Do you have firm templates for your users that will allow them to create documents quickly and efficiently - with consistent styles? Consider taking a look at LegalBar, a great product from BEC Legal Systems in Cincinnati, Ohio.

BEC's LegalBar is a tool designed from the ground up, specifically for law firms, and comes with styles and standard numbering schemes that allows your users to quickly and easily create quality documents. LegalBar also comes with clause libraries (for document assembly) and templates, and gives users the ability to share these great tools without hours of programming.

LegalBar can be highly customized - allowing your firm to take advantage of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook to build client management and document production shortcuts. An ideal tool to consider at any time, LegalBar has proven to be especially valuable as an integral part of your WordPerfect to Word or Office XP/Office 11 Upgrade transition plan. Law firms committed to quality documents immediately recognize the invaluable part that LegalBar plays in promoting ease of use and firm standards for formatting and document production that can be easily shared and administered.

If you regularly synchronize Amicus to your Palm, consider upgrading to Amicus Attorney - Version 5.5. This new version now gives you the ability to synchronize categories between Amicus & Palm (although the Palm is still limited to 15 categories, and Amicus can have many more, so you will have to pick and choose which categories to create on the Palm).

You also now have the ability to decide which five (5) Communication labels will be displayed on the Palm by default, and you can map fields from Amicus to be synchronized with those five fields.

Click on the link below to download the detailed documentation entitled 'How to Perform a Successful Hotsync between Amicus and your Palm'.

Want a faster way to open the Files, Contacts, and other modules in Amicus? How about an easy way to start a new incoming phone call, or start the timer?

Have you tried using the Amicus Office Toolbar? All of the icons on the Toolbar are the same as those on the Amicus desktop, with the addition of the Office, Timer and Phone icons. Click on the 'Office Toolbar' drop-down list box and select 'Always on Top' to allow the Toolbar to always remain visible, no matter what application you are using. You can also change the size or shape of the Toolbar; the size makes it smaller or larger, and the shape allows you to decide whether to display the Toolbar horizontally or vertically on your Windows desktop. In order to move the Toolbar to another location on your desktop, point to any edge or corner of the toolbar, and click and drag the toolbar to any location on your desktop.

Another quick way to access modules and features within Amicus is to use the right mouse button. Click the right mouse button on any blank area in any Amicus module to display the main Amicus Attorney quick menu.

Lesson 7, Section D in the Step by Step Guide to Amicus Attorney training manual provides a table with all of the quick menus that are displayed using the right mouse button throughout Amicus Attorney.

Word Templates - There are four Word templates that come with Amicus Attorney that have problems that cause one or both of the following problems: a) Each record appears in a separate table (with a header in each table), b) The final document lists half the number of selected records.

There are two steps that may need to be performed in these templates to resolve these issues. You can either manually modify the templates, or you can download the modified templates from our website.

WordPerfect Templates - There were no major problems with the original WordPerfect templates - however, they have been modified as well to correct minor features that were not set up properly, as follows: a) the header row in the table has been designated as a header row, and it will now repeat at the top of each page in the table, b) extraneous codes have been removed, and the formatting has been cleaned up, c) the line that was at the end of each report that showed 'This report was prepared on DATE by TEAM MEMBER' was moved from the end of the report to the sub-heading.