$79

Available for 90 days upon enrollment

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CEU

Formatting Legal Transcripts in MS Word

Learn how to use Microsoft Word to help you more easily create legal transcripts. This CEU course covers federal formatting rules.

This course requires the use of Microsoft Word 2016, 2019, or Office 365.

(4 hours/ .40 CEU)

Content within this CEU course exists in our main Legal Transcription course.

Course content

Lesson Terms and Conditions
- Terms and Conditions Acknowledgement
Lesson Formatting Legal Transcripts in MS Word
- Introduction
- MS Word for Transcription
  - Change Your MS Word Settings
  - DOT Template File Format
  - MS Word Features
  - MS Word Shortcuts
  - Spell Check and PerfectIt
  - Nonbreaking Spaces and Hyphens
  - Breaks in MS Word
  - Adding Examination Headers
  - Show/Hide Markers in MS Word
  - E-Transcript
  - Print to ASCII 1
  - Print to ASCII 2
  - Printing Assignment
  - AutoCorrect and Quick Parts in MS Word
  - AutoCorrect Assignment
  - Macros in MS Word
  - How to Add Macros
  - Macros Assignment
  - MS Word Quiz
- Formatting Legal Transcripts
  - Federal vs. State Cases
  - Page Format
  - Example Transcript
  - Plural Parties
  - Title Page
  - Appearances
  - Index Page
  - Index - Exhibits
  - Proceeding Pages
  - Colloquy / Q&A
  - Witness Designation
  - Swear-In Blurb
  - By-Lines
  - Certificate
  - Event Headers
  - Examination Headers
  - Examination Headers 2
  - Multi-volume / Multi-day
  - Parentheticals
  - Formatting Parentheticals
  - After One-Line Parentheticals
  - Paragraphing
  - Ordinals
  - Sticky Words
  - Quoting from Witness Testimony
  - Straight Quotes and Long Quotations
  - Formatting Quiz
- Final Assignment - Submission
  - Final Assignment - Review
- Course Evaluation