Microsystems Webinars

As your organization plans and executes the migration of your authoring environment to Office 2010, don't be caught unaware of the critical issues that can complicate the conversion of your submission documents and compromise authoring productivity. In this webinar, you'll find out how two Life Sciences organizations worked with Microsystems to successfully navigate these document challenges. Running Time: 0:24 Recorded: April 25, 2013

A thorough document review is critical to the finalization of a legal agreement. Yet, as workload volumes increase and budgets and time decrease, it's difficult for even the most experienced lawyer to be 100% accurate all of the time. Even "minor" content ambiguities or inaccuracies can lead to significant consequences. View this webinar to find out why lawyers are saying goodbye to manual document reviews and learn how a new solution enables lawyers to turn around legal agreements more quickly and accurately and with little to no end-user training. Running Time: 0:29. Recorded: January 24, 2013.

In this webinar, lawyer and legal technology expert Robert Blacksberg and ALM market expert Lynn Frances explore today's workflow trends, the associated risks as well as practices and technology solutions to protect a lawyer and efficiently review an agreement. Running Time: 1:04. Recorded: September 20, 2012.

There are many benefits of server-based metadata cleaning, including some new and emerging reasons for moving beyond a traditional desktop solution. In this webinar, Microsystems presents 5 reasons why 3BClean should be your next IT project. Running Time: 0:19. Recorded: September 13, 2012.

Technology Guided Drafting and Review: Opportunities and Imperatives for Ensuring "Perfection" in Transactional Documents discusses legal agreement drafting and review workflows and the new generation of technology that enables Lawyers to draft and review with precision guidance. Running Time: 0:45. Recorded: July 12, 2012.

Prepare your firm for evolving workflows. Developed by Microsystems through extensive investigation, testing and side-by-side work with the world's leading law firms, this DocXcellence webinar gives insight into Office 2010, the convergence of old and new file formats, preparing for and protecting the mobile lawyer and an introduction to Office 15. Running time: 1:30. Recorded: May 21, 2012.

iPads are flying off shelves and into lawyers’ hands – even making their way into the courtroom. As more lawyers integrate iPads (and smartphones) into their workflows, they will transition from just checking email and reading a document on the iPad to full-scale editing and responding to clients using one of the myriad of editing applications available through the App Store. In this webinar, you’ll learn about the risks associated with iPad integration that may affect client service and efficiency, and expose the firm to unwanted metadata disclosure. We'll also provide information on technology solutions that mitigate these risks. Running time: 0:51. Recorded: February 27, 2012.

Microsystems has long been recognized for "making Word work for Legal" and when it comes to working with styles, no other application can drive productivity gains more than DocXtools. In this webinar, you'll learn how to encourage the use of styles without having to train users, apply styles to groups of paragraphs instead of individually, use one button to apply a set of mapped styles to a document, and rebuild scanned, OCR and "Franken" documents in minutes. Running time: 0:52. Recorded: November 07, 2011.

As your firm continues to be driven harder to provide more value, technology departments are being tasked to maximize usability and to ensure investments result in greater user efficiency. Learn how to align your technology to meet these increased demands. In this webinar, we discuss the realities you're faced with from a client, business and technology team's perspective. You'll also gain the expertise needed to configure a refined UI, styles, comparison workflow, templates, and Building Blocks, as well as how to manage a dual format environment. Running time: 1:32. Recorded: July 26, 2011.

Part 2 focuses on improving the quality of submission documents by establishing an electronic quality control gateway to analyze and report on the formatting quality of documents prior to acceptance into the document repository. Documents arriving from CROs and contract medical writers or as a result of a corporate merger or acquisition can delay a submission unless the QC process moves upstream. Running time: 0:55. Recorded: April 19, 2011.

A successful roll out of Office 2010 or 2007 has many steps. Sherry Kappel dives into the new fundamentals of Word's styles to show you how to:

• Word Styles Webinar Q&A

  Properly redesign your templates
• Improve usability, efficiency, consistency
• Avoid common pitfalls
• Leverage – or avoid – new or hidden style capabilities

Over 50 of the world's leading law firms have relied on Microsystems to guide their Office 2010/2007 deployment. During this webinar, we'll share recommendations and best practices for the redefinition of styles when moving to Word 2010/2007. Running time: 1:25. Recorded: March 03, 2011.

Learn how to maximize the benefits of Word 2010 and the .docx format while minimizing the risks associated with a dual file format workflow. Techniques and strategies for preparing your documents and your users to successfully migrate to the .docx format are covered. Running time: 1:29. Recorded: November 11, 2010.

Word 2010/2007 offers new opportunities for improving the productivity of legal Word users, but gaps remain and training challenges exist. In this overview you will learn how to improve the efficiency of lawyers and secretaries by deploying specifically configured DocXtools functionality to their desktops. Additionally, you will see examples of how DocXtools & the Ribbon Designer are used to extend the use of native Word functionality like comparison and cross referencing. Running Time: 0:59. Recorded: November 1, 2010.

This webinar provides an in-depth look at Microsoft Word 2007/2010's enhanced comparison functionality; highlighting strengths and exposing weaknesses pertinent to your evaluation. Learn how DocXtools™ v6.1 fills the gaps in native Word and it will make the move to Office 2007/2010 easier whether you choose to use only native Word or Word and a 3rd-party comparison vendor. Running Time: 0:41. Recorded: April 19, 2010.

Sherry Kappel presents how to handle the challenges you face until you move to Office 2007. Running Time: 1:01. Recorded July 29, 2008.

You no longer have to Dig to China to customize the active outline numbering scheme and crawl through The Rabbit Hole. See how Outline Numbering differs in Word 2003 and 2007. In Word 2007, learn how to access and modify Outline Numbers, whether Outline Numbering links to styles, how to store styles, what the implications of Outline Numbering are when creating a table of contents and much, much more. Running Time: 0:46. Recorded June 24, 2008.

Roll-out the out-of-the-box Pre-Hire Skills Assessment module in your firm. This webinar will review where and how you can obtain the module, how to begin using it and more. Running Time: 0:32. Recorded April 15, 2008.

Sometimes normal.dot is anything but normal. Find out why. Running Time: 0:40. Recorded February 28, 2008.

Office Hours with Microsystems: Anecdotes and Perspectives on Some of Word's Technical Aspects (Plus Q&A). Running Time: 0:44. Recorded January 31, 2008.