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Email Management, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Technology

Turn Emails into Calendared Events in An Instant

If you use an electronic calendar, especially if you share that calendar with support staff or with clients via a booking link, you know that you need to keep it meticulously up to date. Many events on your calendar start life as an email. We will explore effortless ways to turn email messages into calendared events instantly to reduce mistakes…

Email Management, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Research, Security

Practical and Tactical Tech Tips

Every week subscribers receive the ICYMI enewsletter from the NCBA Center for Practice Management. The newsletter highlights tips, tools, trends, and techniques to help your law practice. Following are a few quick tips from past issues of the newsletter, highlighting tech know-how you can use today! How to Compress Images in Microsoft PowerPoint Many presentations built in Microsoft PowerPoint result…

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Microsoft 365 versus Google Workspace

As law firms steadily move more of their office technology into the cloud, they may find themselves faced with a question about which office productivity suite to use. Microsoft 365 may seem the obvious choice for firms upgrading from the traditional Office suite and mail/file servers. However, Google has been keeping up in this area and has rolled out the…

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Seven Time Management Tips to Start Doing Today

Welcome to 2021! Many people start out the year with a list of resolutions which often include getting on top of deadlines, improving work/life balance, and working out more often. This list of time management tips can help with the first two and the extra time can be devoted to adding exercise back into your regimen! Eat a frog for…

Center For Practice Management, Cloud Computing, Email Management, Microsoft Office, Smartphones

Power in Your Palm: Microsoft Outlook and Office Apps

If you are a Microsoft 365 user then getting the Outlook and Office app on your smart phone is an easy decision.  Built for what you need from your small screen, these apps provide an amazing amount of functionality, including scanning, signatures, managing your calendar and far more. MS Outlook App Sure, you can get your Outlook emails on the…

Document Generation, Email Management, Marketing, Microsoft Office, Productivity

Tips from the CPM ICYMI Newsletter

Every week subscribers receive the ICYMI enewsletter from the NCBA Center for Practice Management. The newsletter highlights tips, tools, trends and techniques to help your law practice. Following are a few popular quick tips from the past issues of the newsletter. How to Help Others Pronounce Your Name Correctly on LinkedIn If your name is frequently mispronounced, you can help…

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Microsoft 365 Power Automate

Microsoft 365 users have access to Power Automate (f/k/a Flow) to create automated workflows that can save you time and help with efficiency and productivity in your firm, company or organization. They work with the Microsoft 365 applications, as well as many other applications outside of the Microsoft ecosystem. Once you get the hang of creating “flows” you can start…

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Make Appointments Easy: Meeting Scheduling Tools

If scheduling meetings requires that you or someone else in your firm must go back and forth via email or phone calls to negotiation availability, consider using an automated scheduling tool. Whether initial consultations, client meetings, or other appointments, you can make it easy for someone to book time on your calendar – without having to go through you or…

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Some Tech Tips from ABA TECHSHOW 2020

That’s a wrap and ABA TECHSHOW 2020 is in the books. The conference ends with a session called “60 in 60” and a panel of speakers provide whimsical, useful and sometimes outrageous tips for lawyers. The following are some tips that might be useful in your practice. Add a Virtual Background in Zoom Consider using Zoom to communicate with clients…

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Automation in MS Outlook

Many lawyers spend a lot of time in Microsoft Outlook. Daily tasks include receiving and responding to email, sending and filing attachments, scheduling appointments, responding to meetings, and updating contacts. The good news is there are lots of ways to add shortcuts and automation to remove some manual steps and focus on reading and responding to email. Some automation is…