Time-Saving Document Drafting Tips

Shortcuts and templates that make life easier.

One thing that saves me hours: in Word templates I drop StyleRef fields in headers/footers to pull the party names and case number from the caption — ‘type it once, it shows up everywhere’ — just make sure your styles are consistent or it won’t update cleanly; anyone else using this?

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