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Excel has a number of built in custom lists that can be used to quickly enter information that follows a pattern such as months of the year or days of the week. Excel knows that there are always 12 months in a year and 7 days in a week and that these values never change.…
Distribution lists in Outlook will allow you to send the same email to multiple people at the same time. In Outlook 2010 and 2013 a distribution list is referred to as a Contact group. Click the Contact link (or People link in Outlook 2013) and click New Contact Group at the top of the screen.…
If you want to create a quick email from existing text in a document, copy the text to the clipboard as normal. Open Outlook and press CTRL+V on your keyboard. A new email will be created with the text pasted into it. This method saves you having to create an email and then copy and…
If you regularly type the same text into an email, why not create an email template and save yourself some time. Create the email as normal, enter all the text that you want to appear each time you create an email – you can even add the subject line if this is going to be…
Time recording ensures that Clients are billed correctly for any work that has been done. When creating new documents or emails or adding received documents and emails to MatterSphere the Time Entry dialog box will be displayed. Enter a meaningful description in the Time Desc field. The Fee Earner field should be populated with either…
If you ‘ve made changes to a document in MatterSphere you can save the amended copy as a version of the original when you save it back to MatterSphere. This will enable you to revert back to an earlier version of the document if you need to. Open an existing document from MatterSphere and make the…
On the Documents tab there is an option to Check Out a document. The means that the document is locked for editing, other users will be able to open the document as normal but will not be able to make any changes to it. Check out a document Select the document that you want to…
inHave you ever entered a list of headings in Excel only to find that you’ve entered them as Row headings instead of Column headings or vice versa? It’s easy to change where the headings are displayed without having to delete them all and start again. Select the headings and copy them as normal. Position the…
Most of us use the standard CTRL+ALT+DELETE to lock our PC when we leave our desk but did you know there’s an even quicker method – press the Window button on your keyboard + l (lowercase L).
If you regularly type the same text into documents you could set this up as an AutoText entry, this means that you can enter the text really quickly by type a single word (or even letter) and pressing Enter. The easiest way to enter AutoText is to type the text into a document and select…