Legal documents with superpowers

What does a busy person expect from a legal document? As well as being relevant, informative, and written in plain English, it needs to be easy to read and work with.

Documents have long been shared electronically, but the events of the past few years have meant that more and more documents are viewed, and reviewed, online.

The person reading your document is typically a busy one; it’s important to respect that, and to make your documents work efficiently.

Microsoft Word is full of exciting features to achieve this. Read on to find out how to give your documents superpowers…

Formatting the document with automatic paragraph and section numbering makes it easy to read.

An automatically generated table of contents, with clickable hyperlinks, will let the reader jump straight to the section they want to read.

Cross references allow them to quickly jump to a referenced paragraph, table, or graphic. Ditto footnotes.

If your document has a lot of tables and graphics, a list of those again takes the reader to the relevant item at the click of a button.

Trust me, no one’s going to miss that tedious scrolling through pages and pages to find the paragraph they know they saw somewhere.

When it comes to editing documents, features such as these make that process easier and more reliable too.

Want to insert a numbered paragraph? Click in the document and press the carriage return to insert the next number.

Need to move a paragraph that includes a cross reference, or a footnote number? Just do it. Word will automatically update the links and renumber the footnotes if necessary.

Insert another table or graphic, and have the lists also update automatically. You can update the table of contents at any time with just one command.

Creating technically efficient documents is a win for the reader, and a win for you and your business reputation.

“But” I hear you say, “these are all advanced features, and I really don’t have the time to learn them, let alone remember them!”

And that’s where we come in.

You don’t need to know how to do all these things yourself. We are all about making things easy! Talk to us about our intuitive reliable automatic numbering, touch-of-a-button table of contents generation, cross referencing and so much more. Why not be a superhero and take your documents to the next level? (No changing in phone boxes or spidey-senses required!)