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The Key to Being a Happy Lawyer; 20 Helpful Utilities for Geek Lawyers; Review of Clio; My Rickety Task Management System

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, September 28, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

David O'Connell, The Key to Being a Happy Lawyer (If Only for a Minute or Two)

Tom Trottier, 20 Helpful Utilities for Geek Lawyers

Ed Schieffler, Review of Clio

Josh Friedman, My Rickety Task Management System

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Collaboration/Knowledge Management | Coming Attractions | Practice Management/Calendars | Technology Industry/Legal Profession | TL Serendipity | Utilities

Reviews of Adobe Sign, Rukovoditel, Everything, Dictate Pro

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, September 21, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Harold Dye, Review of Adobe Sign

Joni Mueller, Review of Rukovoditel

Miriam Jacobson, Review of Everything

Erica Todd, Review of Dictate Pro

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Collaboration/Knowledge Management | Coming Attractions | Dictation/OCR/Speech Recognition | TL Serendipity | Utilities

Three-Part Task Management System; Mediators Are Not Svengalis; Reviews of Ecco Pro, Adobe Sign

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, September 14, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Bryan Sims, My Three-Part Task Management System

Robert Rice, Mediators Are Not Svengalis

Rodrick Enns, Ecco Pro Alive and Kicking

Philip Franckel, Review of Adobe Sign

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Collaboration/Knowledge Management | Coming Attractions | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | Practice Management/Calendars | TL Serendipity

How I Changed My Practice to Remain a Happy Lawyer; Reviews of Topaz Electric Pen, Everything, Copernic, Nomorobo

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, September 7, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Mark Olberding, How I Changed My Practice to Remain a Happy Lawyer

Michael Schwartz, Review of Topaz Electric Pen for Digital and Print Signatures

Harry Steinmetz, Review of Daylite for Team Scheduling

Mark Olberding, Review of Everything Versus Copernic for Desktop Search

Jim Fortson, Review of Nomorobo

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Practicing Law Is a Great Job; Reviews of Just Press Record, Dictate + Connect, HelloSign, RMail

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, August 31, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Emmett Raitt, Law Practice Is a Much Better Job Than Most Alternatives

Troy Marsh, Review of Just Press Record (Dragon Anywhere Alternative)

Andrea Cannavina, Review of Dictate + Connect (Dragon Anywhere Alternative)

Stephen Hayes, Reviews of HelloSign and RMail

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Reviews of DocuSign and Acrobat for Electronic Signatures; What Macs Have That Windows Doesn't; The Power of Inertia

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, August 24, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Kathryne Valentine, Review of DocuSign

John Faucher, How I Use Electronic Signatures in My Practice (And Where I Can't)

Brad Pearce, What the Mac Has That Windows Lacks

Mark Olberding, The Power of Inertia in the Mac v. Windows Debate

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Compare Documents Faster and Gain Deeper Insights Without Leaving Microsoft Word

By TechnoLawyer | Thursday, August 9, 2018

Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers document comparison software that adds legal-specific functionality to Microsoft Word's Track Changes and which integrates with popular document management systems (see article below). In addition, you'll find links to the previous 11 TL NewsWire features, including our coverage of a Mac document management system that combines the familiarity of the Finder with legal-specific tools such as automated email capture, a legal payments platform that enables your firm to accept payment by e-check or credit card without having to change your billing process, and much more. Don't miss the next issue.

Microsoft Word's Track Changes offers a barebones document comparison experience designed for the mass market, not legal professionals. But it's convenient because it resides where you work — in Word. Recognizing this, Evolution Software set out to enhance Track Changes rather than require you to change your workflow.

NOVO Compare … in One Sentence

Evolution Software's NOVO Compare is document comparison software that enhances Microsoft Word's Track Changes for generating legal-specific redlines.

The Killer Feature

NOVO Compare resides in its own toolbar on the Microsoft Word Ribbon. Once you configure NOVO Compare, the QuickCompare menu enables you to compare documents with a minimum of clicks. "Our clients asked us to develop a better way to quickly and efficiently compare documents," says CEO Chris Cangero. "QuickCompare is our solution, delivering a practical design and advanced automation."

With QuickCompare, you can compare the active document to another open document in the background, a local or network document via Windows Explorer, or a different document or version in your document management system (DMS). Without any extra clicks, you can decide to make the active or the target document the baseline.

NOVO Compare integrates with the following DMS — iManage, NetDocuments, OpenText, SharePoint, and Worldox. If you use one of these, QuickCompare gains additional options such as comparing he last two versions of a document in your DMS, two different documents in your DMS, or a document in your DMS to a local document.

"NOVO Compare and QuickCompare specifically is of great value to our firm's users," Cheyenne Harden, Director of Information Technology at O'Reilly Rancilio P.C. "QuickCompare allows our staff to reduce the time it takes to produce and correct legal documents. It is truly a timesaver!"

Other Notable Features

NOVO Compare offers a deep collection of settings. You can save sets of settings and switch among them from the toolbar. Most importantly, you can decide what to include and exclude when comparing documents. For example, you can exclude white space, comments, formatting and case changes, etc. You can also modify how changes are shown and in what color.

Other settings enable you to choose the format of the redline (DOCX, DOC, PDF, or XPS), the page layout, whether to show the reviewing pane, how to handle paragraph and footnote numbering, and whether to create a Comparison Summary report in a separate document or before or after the redline. One of the more interesting settings acknowledges today's widescreen monitors, enabling you to show the original and modified documents alongside the redline. In this view, scrolling through the redline automatically scrolls the other two documents.

A number of tools exist for reviewing a redline and accepting/rejecting changes. You can magnify changes to make them easier to see without changing the formatting of the underlying document. You can also switch between a traditional redline view and Word's inline track changes. If you prefer reviewing on paper, you can choose from two settings depending on how much detail you want.

What Else Should You Know?

NOVO Compare integrates with Outlook for sharing redlines. Select the format, and send only the redline or also the original and/or the modified document. NOVO Compare costs $99 per user per year. This includes new features, software updates, and technical support. Learn more about NOVO Compare.

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Review of Nozbe for Task Management and Delegation; Three Law Firms Share Their Scan Plan

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, July 20, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Tom Stubbs, Review of Nozbe for Task Management and Delegation

Harry Steinmetz, Our Law Firm's Scan Plan Using Fujitsu ScanSnap and Brother MFC Equipment

David Mooney, Our Law Firm's Scan Plan Using Fujitsu ScanSnap

Douglas Evans, Our Law Firm's Five Scanner Scan Plan

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Lawyer Ethics and Credit Card Rewards; 3 Favorite Credit Card Rewards Programs; Review of Nuance Power PDF; My Retirement Investments

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, July 13, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Robert Pennell, Lawyer Ethics and Credit Card Rewards

Steve Loewy, My Three Favorite Credit Card Rewards Programs

Scott Curnutte, Review of Nuance Power PDF

Government Employee, My Best and Worst Retirement Investments

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Avoid This Microsoft Word Styles Setting Like the Plague Plus 58 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected the 59 best legal technology articles, podcasts, and videos from the past week. Below you'll find a sampling from today's issue, including our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week. BlawgWorld is free so don't miss the next issue — sign up now.

Congratulations to Deborah Savadra of Legal Office Guru on winning our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week award: The 1 Styles Setting You Should Avoid

The Best USB Microphones

Microsoft Word Secrets for Lawyers

The Best Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRAAS) Solutions of 2018

Microsoft Developing Dual-Screen "Pocketable" Surface Device

Review: BlackBerry Key 2 (Video)

The Best iPad Bluetooth Keyboard Cases for Typing on the Move

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