Create Legal Forms Using Microsoft® Office Word 2007

Course Specifications

Course number: 084069
Software: Microsoft® Office Word® 2007
Course length: 0.5 day(s)

Course Description

You are familiar with Microsoft® Office Word® 2007 and how it can be used to create, edit, and enhance basic business documents. Microsoft Word 2007 has a set of advanced tools that will help you create, enhance, and distribute forms quickly and effortlessly. In this course, you will employ these tools to create legal forms.

Course Objective: You will create legal forms using Microsoft® Office Word® 2007.

Target Student: Legal advisors, lawyers, paralegals, clients, and others that need to create legal forms using advanced tools in Microsoft® Office Word® 2007.

Prerequisites: To ensure success in this course, it is recommended that you have completed Element K's course titled Microsoft® Office Word® 2007: Level 1 or have equivalent knowledge.

Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Hardware Requirements

For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware components:

Platform Requirements

Software Requirements

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating Legal Forms
Topic 1A: Introduction to Word Forms
Topic 1B: Create a Printed Legal Form
Topic 1C: Create Legal Forms That Users Complete in Word
Topic 1D: Insert Fields Using Quick Parts


Lesson 2: Managing Documents
Topic 2A: Create Linked Forms
Topic 2B: Create Master Documents and Subdocuments
Topic 2C: Insert the Table of Contents
Topic 2D: Insert the Table of Authorities


Lesson 3: Protecting Forms
Topic 3A: Protect a Legal Form
Topic 3B: Distribute Forms