Power User
Office 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Vivian Manning | May.13.13 | 2 Comments
Microsoft Office 2013 has been available for several months, but Office 2010 has been stable and mostly well-received in our firm. And with staff and lawyers already overwhelmed by[...]
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Seven Alternatives to Composing Email from Scratch
By Vivian Manning | Apr.09.13 | 2 Comments
I'm lazy, and that’s a trait I try to take advantage of whenever possible. How? By relying on every software automation function available to me. If the software will do my work,[...]
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Dropbox 102: Security Steps
By Vivian Manning | Mar.18.13 | 4 Comments
A long time ago, in a life far away—November 2012—I wrote a Dropbox 101 post for Attorney at Work. Commenter Jeffrey Brandt suggested a "Dropbox 102" version to address securi[...]
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Silencing Email Read Receipts: Why You Don’t Always Get What You Want
By Vivian Manning | Feb.07.13 | No Comments
Back in the day when I was a young and naive pup, I didn’t pay much attention to how my email was set up. I’d sometimes be surprised by a little pop-up that accompanied an ema[...]
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Adobe Reader XI: A Worthwhile Download for Lawyers
By Vivian Manning | Jan.15.13 | 3 Comments
Mostly in life, you get what you pay for. And when you pay nothing, you don’t often get much in return. Sometimes you get more than you bargained for, but not in a good way. Onc[...]
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Dropbox 101: Time to Dive In
By Vivian Manning | Nov.01.12 | 4 Comments
You’ve heard the hype (Drop Your Data Into Dropbox, The Essential Cloud: Top Tools for Lawyers), read the warnings (Reasonable Care in the Cloud, Stepping Into the Cloud: Prac[...]
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