David Clark wrote:
From: NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 23, 2008 8:45:35 AM PDT
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: OO for Mac for Lawyers
On 05/23/2008 06:14 AM, David Clark wrote:
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My version of Word did not include a pleading wizard. And, I'm just
not a programmer and have no desire to learn at this stage of my
life. I suppose I could hire someone, and maybe I'll give that some
consideration.
It has been included with Word since at least Office 97. It is in the
install CD in the template/legal directory.
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IANAL so my question(s) are curiosity driven and not from any experience
with legal pleadings... hopefully I can avoid such things :-)
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What does "IANAL" mean? I've seen way too many Internet Acronyms,
but that one has me stumped. In addition not...
IANAL=I am not a lawyer.
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Somehow I think that's a double entendre, at my expense. But it's
good enough to post on my Mac for Lawyers list!!
On topic, several of the pleading templates I tried had the lines and
numbers in the wrong location for California rules. One ran the 28
numbers right to the bottom of the paper without allowing for a bottom
margin. The number 1 needs to be at the point of the top margin (1" from
top paper edge, and aligned with the top of the vertical double line),
then the bottom number 28 must be at the point of the bottom margin, and
in my case I've got that set for 1.2". In addition, some of the
pleading templates do not have the right margin correct -- the Rules
specify 1". Some templates are larger, and Word's default left margin
is something like 1.25".
I downloaded/installed the latest NeoOffice, then its patch, and then
opening a decent Word Template for a legal pleading and saving it as a
template in NeoOffice (an swt document). It seemed to do a decent job,
but I'm just not sure it's quite right yet. One of the hardest things
to do seems to be getting the text to line up with the numbers, which
themselves have to be correct. Thus, the 28 numbers need to start near
the top margin, and then number 28 needs to be as close as possible to
the bottom margin. Next, the user needs to set the correct spacing --
I've got paragraph set for "at least" at .31" -- which seems to almost
do the trick; .30 was too small and .32 was too large.
Anyway, if anyone is interested I'd be happy to send the swt template to
any of you to fiddle with. Maybe you can get it to fit the California
rules a little better. Candidly, it's close enough now that I suspect
even an eagle-eyed court clerk would not notice the difference.
Please see my previous post which I believe provides a method of lining
up text with numbers and single-spaced text with double-spaced text and
allows you to set the spacing to the exact point size.
Jim Allan
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