Having Side Numberingĭocuments filed with the court (and other documents, such as discovery requests that are served but not filed with the court) typically need to have numbering down the left side, and a caption on the first page. Since I don’t know what your document looks like, I will explain how to create one from scratch - and you can use that information to see how you might want to fix your broken document. Here is a guide to fixing a legal-formatted Microsoft Word document. odt file format, and I would like to see institutions move towards that, including courts and universities.īut until that happens, as a practical matter, attorneys need to use Microsoft Word to edit Microsoft Word documents that they will send or receive from other attorneys. That is why I recommend using LibreOffice (or Apache OpenOffice) and the. They were (allegedly) designed by Microsoft to be essentially impossible for Microsoft’s competitors to work with, so that Microsoft could leverage its monopoly power in the word processing/office software market (and in the personal computer operating systems market) to shut out competitors. Microsoft Word is not good software, especially the proprietary file formats (.doc and.
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