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Notifications in MS Teams

If your firm has started using Microsoft Teams you will want to make sure you do not miss something important. There are many settings you can customize to get notifications in the app and via email so you can keep up with important messages and events even if you are not logged into Teams. Settings In MS Teams go to…

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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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Lists in Microsoft 365

In September 2020 Microsoft rolled out Lists in Teams for MS 365 subscribers. With Lists now in Teams, as well as in SharePoint and in a stand-alone interface, what can this product do for law firms? Lists can help a law firm track issues, manage tasks across the firm, provide transparency on workflows and more. Lists integrations and automation through…

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Tips from the CPM ICYMI Newsletter (October- December 2020)

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 past issues of the newsletter. Microaggressions Look Different When We’re Working Remotely Part of being inclusive includes understanding and avoiding microaggressions. This article looks at how to…

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Microsoft Edge Browser – New and Improved

Tom Mighell – tech blogger, podcaster, author, and lawyer – recently tweeted that he was using Microsoft’s Edge browser more often than Google Chrome. Intriguing. What makes Edge a contender in the browser space? Should you switch from Chrome? What is new and improved? And what features are especially useful for lawyers? What is so surprising about someone preferring the…

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How Law Firms Can Take Advantage of Microsoft 365

This guest post is written by Hannah Rose at Dynamic Quest, one of the CPM Connect partners. Law firms are seeking out tools that help streamline and improve productivity. With innovation in cloud services and software development, specialized applications can help your law firm grow and succeed in the long-term. Incorporating cloud computing into your organization’s technology stack will not…

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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…

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(More) MS Word Tips for Lawyers

Microsoft Word is an enormously powerful application and is used by lawyers and their teams every single day. The program has many “hidden” features that are especially useful for lawyers. Following are some hints and tricks for leveraging this powerful tool in your practice to speed up your work and streamline your efforts. Custom Tabs/Groups in the Ribbon You can…

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The Power of Speech: Voice Options in MS Word

Microsoft 365 has a lot of options for interacting with the spoken word. Native tools in the Microsoft 365 office suite let you dictate a document or email. If you are used to recording your notes or capturing audio from a meeting and asking your support staff to transcribe it, now you can upload the audio file and MS Word…