The Star Trek series featured the curmudgeon physician, beginning with Leonard McCoy, aka Bones. He frequently reminded Admiral James T. Kirk that he was a doctor and not an anything-else-Kirk-asked-him-to-do. If you are asked to do some light design work, whether a newsletter layout, an ad, finding an image, social media posts, or creating a graphic you too might find…
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. The following are a few popular links from the past issues of the newsletter. How to Create a Fillable Form in Microsoft Word (9/8/2023) If you haven’t embraced document assembly tools but would like to…
Microsoft’s OneNote has some updates and feature enhancements that lawyers may find appealing. The OneNote note taking application has been around since 2002 and bundled with the Office suite since 2010. OneNote is a great way to keep notes, tasks, screenshots, and more with links to context like emails and documents. It works well on smartphones, tablets, convertible devices with…
Microsoft’s OneNote has some updates and feature enhancements that lawyers may find appealing. The OneNote note taking application has been around since 2002 and bundled with the Office suite since 2010. OneNote is a great way to keep notes, tasks, screenshots, and more with links to context like emails and documents. It works well on smartphones, tablets, convertible devices with…
Pardon the clickbait headline. There really isn’t a problem with Dropbox, per se. The problem is that many law firms are using Dropbox and multiple other hardware and services to store documents. Saving and sharing documents from multiple places can lead to a host of issues for the office, the least of which is overspending. Are users in your firm…
Pardon the clickbait headline. There really isn’t a problem with Dropbox, per se. The problem is that many law firms are using Dropbox and multiple other hardware and services to store documents. Saving and sharing documents from multiple places can lead to a host of issues for the office, the least of which is overspending. Are users in your firm…
Google Chrome is still the undisputed browser champion in North America for desktop/mobile/tablet on Mac/iOS, Windows and of course Android at 53% of the market share. Safari has 30% of the market share. Microsoft’s Edge trails at a far distant 3rd place at a little over 8%. However, Edge has some new features, including a “work” browser version for Microsoft…
Generative artificial intelligence is all the buzz and Microsoft is rolling out an AI tool called “CoPilot” with the promise of helping you leverage the Microsoft 365 tools so that you can synthesize information, ask your own data questions, suggest ways to be more responsive, stay on top of your schedule and more. While we are waiting for these enhancements…
Microsoft currently has support for multiple versions of Outlook, both professional and home versions – for Mac, PC, browser, subscription, stand-alone, and more. About a year ago the company started to announce that it would be consolidating “One Outlook” to a single version. Now subscribers to MS 365 who use installed Outlook have a preview of what the future holds….
Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s Bard are two chat-based search engines powered by artificial intelligence. What can they do? Let’s run through the basics, including how you can get access to these tools. Google’s Bard If you haven’t already, you can sign up to get on the waitlist to try Bard. Bard is listed as an experiment, and readily admits to…