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LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage 9.0 Appendix A— Putting It All Appendix A— Putting It All Appendix A— Putting It All Appendix A— Putting It All Appendix A— Putting It All On the Investigate navigator, use Search Jury Verdicts and Settlements to find information about previous suits involving a particular party, judge, or attorney. 8. After completing your preliminary research, you prepare to draft and file a complaint on behalf of your client. You decide to search your firm’s document library first to see if any existing documents are suitable as a model for the complaint. Specify file types, keywords, document indexes, and folders or drives to search. Highlight a document in the search results to see a preview of its contents. 9. You aren’t satisfied with the documents you already have, so you decide to base the complaint on one of the model documents available on lexis.com. Select a type of form or model document on the Tasks list in the Draft a Document navigator. When you locate a form or model document on lexis.com, you can download it and save it as a record in your database. With the complaint completed, filed and served, you can begin the discovery phase of the case. LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage provides extensive assistance in discovery, giving you easy access to online LexisNexis Practice Guides, checklists, forms and model documents, as well as helping you continue to manage all this information in the context of your clients and matters. 74 Putting it All Together
Appendix B—Fillable Forms When using LexisNexis Fillable Forms, you can easily and efficiently complete forms in LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage using Microsoft Word. The navigators and navigator related features discussed in this section may vary from those in your installation of LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage. Your navigators will include features that are relevant to the jurisdictions and practice areas included in your subscription. Fillable Microsoft Word Documents Each LexisNexis fillable form contains Microsoft Word fields where you can enter information. In many forms, these fields also include advisory text (designated in red), which provides example answers or indicates the type of answer that should be entered for a particular field. Example: (Defendant’s Name) (Address) Once you complete a form, you can remove the advisory text by following the procedure To Remove All Advisory Text From the Form on page 76. Microsoft Windows settings can cause the Word document for a fillable form to open in your Internet Explorer browser instead of in Microsoft Word. To change this setting, follow the instructions on the following Microsoft support page: http://support.microsoft.com/scid=kb;en-us;162059 To Enter Custom Answers in a Document 1 Open the Microsoft Word document you want to complete. When the document opens, you will see several gray form fields throughout the document. Example: Defendant is a corporation that operates a store in County, Pennsylvania. 2 Click on a gray form field and enter the appropriate response. (When you click on a gray form field, the gray shading disappears and you can type as much text as needed.) Example: Defendant Great Foods is a corporation that operates a grocery store in New County, Pennsylvania. Removing the gray shading from the fields can also be accomplished by clicking the Field Shading button. Form Appendix B— Fillable Forms Appendix B— Fillable Forms Appendix B— Fillable Forms Appendix B— Fillable Forms Appendix B— Fillable Forms Fillable Microsoft Word Documents 75
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