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If you are using Amicus
5.5, 5.8 or Amicus Small Firm, and you haven't
already purchased one of our training manuals,
please read on.
Version 5.5 users - Your
Step by Step Guide to Amicus Attorney is a
comprehensive training manual which can help your
users learn more about the great features in
Version 5.5.
Version 5.8 or Amicus Small Firm
users - you can still use the Step by Step
Guide for learning most of the basic
features. The few new features in these
versions will be covered in our
soon-to-be-released At A Glance Guide, which
should be available by June 1, 2008.
This will be the first At A Glance Guide that
will be available for purchase by law firms.
The first two versions of the AAG Guide (Versions
5.1 and 5.5) were only sold to Amicus consultants,
and the Version 7 AAG Guide was written
under contract for Gavel & Gown, and is
still available as a free download.
More detailed information about the newest
AAG guide (along with some sample pages) will
be sent to you within the next few weeks.
For those of you who have never seen the AAG
guide, it is a reference guide with over 50 pages
of text with full color screen shots, a 4-page
Table of Contents, and a 10-page Reference
Section.
Don't forget that we offer complete Amicus
training and consulting services - we use various
remote services to log into your system and help
your users become more productive in Amicus.
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Dear
Lori,
Well, I have some great news to report.
I recently returned from the 208 Consultant's
Conference in Toronto, where we learned everything
about the newest version of Amicus - Amicus
Attorney 2008 Premium Edition, and received some
great tips about Amicus Small Firm 2008.!
You may have noticed that I stopped sending
out regular newsletters after Amicus Version 7 was
released - in April 2007. Even though I
upgraded my own system to Version 7, I never felt
it was good enough to upgrade any of my
clients. So now I am very excited to be able
to begin supporting the newest versions of Amicus
again.
Both new products are really good! Any Amicus
users who are still using AA5.5, 5.8 or lower
should definitely consider upgrading - either to
AA 2008 PE or to Amicus Small Firm 2008.
Those of you who upgraded to V7 will be very happy
about all of the bug fixes in AA 2008 PE, but even
more excited about the new features.
AN IMPORTANT NOTE - if you
are considering upgrading to AA 2008 PE - please
click on the link below and review the hardware
requirements carefully. The memory
requirements are pretty stringent, and most
of the consultants at the conference agreed that
we would not even consider upgrading anyone to AA
2008 PE unless every workstation had at least 2 GB
of memory.
If you are not able or willing to meet the
recommended (not just the minimum) hardware
requirements, then you can still upgrade - Amicus
Small Firm 2008 is a very good and stable product,
but has much lower hardware requirements.
In my next newsletter, you will see much more
information about AA 2008 PE. In the
meantime, feel free to go to Gavel & Gown's
website and click on Feature
Tour or Overview to look
at AA 2008 PE or Amicus Small Firm 2008.
For now, please read on for some great Palm
tips - adding your password to check your Voice
Mail; silencing your ringer; and where do your
pictures go when you sync to your desktop?
Also, we have some tips for WordPerfect
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Palm
- Add a password to check Voice
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 Do you check your Voice Mail
from your Palm? If you do, you probably have
to put in your password every time you check
it. My Palm came with Voice Mail as one
of the Favorite buttons, and I quickly figured out
how to add my password to make it a more automated
procedure. So here's how:
- Scroll down to the Favorite button
assigned to 'Voice Mail'. Press the
Menu button (right-click),
scroll down to select Edit Favorites
Button and press OK.
- You will see the number dialed, and
hopefully you will have a Quick Key assigned -
if not, go ahead and assign one. Mine is
i (that means that I can access
my Voice Mail by pressing and holding the letter
'i' from the Dial Pad.)
- Press the More button
(bottom right of the screen) - in the 'Extra
Digits' text box, enter 2
commas (,,) followed by
your password. Then enter a pound sign
(#). So if your password
is 1111, you would see ,,1111#. Make sure
that the Dial Extra Digits
automatically checkbox is checked.
- Click OK twice and you
are done.
- Then try accessing your Voice Mail with
the Quick Key - all you have to do is to listen
to your
messages.
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Palm - Vibrate
and Ringer Volume |
NOTE: The newer Palm
Treos (680, 700p and 755p) have the same buttons
as discussed below, but they may be in a different
location on the Palm keypad.
Change to Vibrate - You probably know this
already, but you can quickly put your phone on
vibrate by sliding the button on the top of the
phone from the left to the right. The ringer
is on when the button is toward the darker sound
button - with )); vibrate is on when the button is
toward the sound button with the x.
The large button on the left side of the
phone is the Ringer Volume. Press either
part of the button to open the Ringer Volume
control. Then press the top of the button to
raise the volume - or press the bottom of the
button to lower the volume.
This next part is very important - after you
raise or lower the volume, you must press the
smaller button to confirm your change. If
you don't press the smaller button, the Ringer
Volume control closes, but your change will
not be accepted - the previous ringer volume will
be in
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Where - oh
where have my pictures
gone? |
I love the camera on my
Palm Treo. It takes pretty decent pictures,
and it is always with me. I get questions
from users all the time asking how to find the
pictures on the computer that came from the
Treo. So I spent some time and put a
shortcut in my Favorites folder
that links directly to the folder that stores the
pictures.
So now I'll give you the same information to
make it easier for you to find your
pictures.
On my computer, when I hot-sync my photos,
using the 'Media' conduit, any new photos that I
have taken since the last Hot Sync are copied to
the following two folders:
1. C:\Documents and Settings\Lori Berenson\My
Documents\My Pictures\palmOne
Photos\BerensL\Internal
2. C:\Program
Files\palmOne\BerensL\Photos\offline copy
location\Internal
If you delete photos directly on your Palm,
the next time you do a Hot Sync, the deleted
photos will be deleted from the #2 location, but
they will remain in the #1 location.
What I would recommend next is to create
shortcuts in your Favorites for both of these
folders. Navigate to the first folder (in
Explorer or My Computer), right click on the
folder, and select 'Create Shortcut'. Then
drag that shortcut into your Favorites folder -
and rename it to something that you will be able
to find easily in the future. Do the
same with the 2nd folder, and you will have 2
shortcuts that will easily get you to your
photos.
The last thing you may want to do (if you
haven't done this already) is to create permanent
folders on your hard drive to store all of your
photos. Then you can move photos from these
two temporary folders into your permanent folders
- and rename the files. The default names
for each photo taken on the Palm will contain the
date and a sequential number within each
date.
Have fun with your photos - you'll enjoy them
more if you can find them
easily. |
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WordPerfect
Tips |
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1. Default Folder (Set & Change) - When
you open a File in WordPerfect, does the Open File
window always open to the same folder?
If it does, hopefully it is a folder on your
server that stores your main WordPerfect
documents.
- If your default folder is still set
to 'My Documents', and you are storing your WP
docs in another folder, it is easy to change
your default folder.
- In any WP version, select
Tools -
Settings, and click on the
Files icon. In the
Document tab, click on the folder (Browse
button) next to 'Default Document Folder'.
- Navigate to the folder where you
store your WP files, and click on
OK. Then click on
Close.
If each time you press F4 (or
click on File -
Open), the last folder you
accessed opens, you can change that setting
(unless you want it set that way!).
- Press F4, and select the
Edit menu. If the last
item on the menu (Change Default Folder) is
checked, that is the culprit. If you do
not want the default folder to change, click on
that option to uncheck it.
- If you aren't sure, click on
Edit again and make sure it is
unchecked.
- Close the Open File dialog box.
- You may need to select the Default Document
Folder one more time in Tools - Settings to
reset it - or close WP and open it again.
- Now, every time you press
F4, your Default Folder should
open for you to select a file.
2. Customize F11 (Reveal Codes) - You may
remember that in the older versions of
WordPerfect, pressing F11 would always open Reveal
Codes. For some reason, in the newer
versions, they assigned the default F11 key to
'From File', which is the same as selecting Insert
- Graphics/Pictures - From File.
Even though I do use the 'From File' feature
often, I still want F11 to open Reveal
Codes. So I customized my keyboard.
While I was customizing, I also reassigned a bunch
of other key combinations to open often-used
files. Here's how:
- Right-click on any menu or toolbar and
select Settings.
- Click on the Keyboards tab
to show a list of available keyboards.
- Make sure that one of the WPWin keyboards
is highlighted, and click on
Create.
- Type your name in the 'New keyboard name'
field and press ENTER (or click
on OK) to open the
Keyboard Shortcuts window.
- Press the F11 function key
and you will see the current assignment 'From
File'.
- Click on the Feature
Categories drop-down list box and
select View.
- Scroll down until you see 'Reveal Codes' in
the 'Assign a feature to the shortcut key'
field.
- Click once on Reveal Codes
and notice the description below the 'Assign
Feature to Key' button.
- Click on the Assign Feature to
Key button to assign it to the F11
function key.
- Click on OK to finalize the
keyboard customization.
- Click on the Select button.
- Press ESC (or click on
Close) to close the Settings
dialog box.
3. Open as Copy - You are about to create a new
document that is very similar to an existing
document, but you want to save your original
document as it is. If you select the file
and click on the Open button, you may forget to
use the Save As command when you are done
editing.
The Open as Copy button gives you the ease of
opening the original document as a Read-Only
copy. This means that when it comes time to
save the file, even if you forget and click on
Save, you will automatically be
in the Save As dialog box, which will only allow
you to save the file with a new name.
- Press F4 (or click on the
Open button) to open the Open
File dialog box.
- Click once to highlight the requested file.
- Click on the Open as Copy
button (lower-right corner of the window).
- Notice the (Read-Only) designation at the
end of the file name on the Title Bar.
- Make any desired changes to the document.
- Press CTRL S (or click on
the Save button) to save your
file. The Save As dialog box opens, and
you may now give the file a new name, and /or
change the folder.
To download a sample of our WordPerfect Tips
& Tricks training manual, click on the link
below to go to our Manual Sample page.
Scroll down and click on the link for any of the
samples.
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On a Personal
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As some of you know, I
recently got married - to a wonderful guy I have
known since childhood. What you may not know
is that my husband Arnie is a master at finding
jewelry, ceramics, artwork, glassware, and
other treasures. We recently started up
an eBay store, and we would love to have you visit
our store. Once you are there, you can sign
up for our bi-weekly e-newsletter, which will give
you announcements of our newly listed items.
Just click on the link below - and
enjoy!
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Sincerely,
Lori
Berenson
Productivity
Consulting
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