Hello,
I've been trying out the Open Office's word processing application for
our county law library's public computers. I am, over all, very
impressed and satisfied.
One MSWord feature that we use here and I regret not seeing on the
Open Office app is Word's legal pleading paper and "Pleading Wizard"
features. By clicking on Word's "File," then "New," a box on screen
offers a "Legal" tab that includes a pleading-paper template and also
a "wizard" feature that permits answering basic questions about the
legal venue, the court, the parties, and the pleading's name. Then it
drafts the difficult caption portion on a numbered and lined document
template.
I realize that there are probably enormous copyright hindrances to
adding such a feature to Open Office's writing app, but is there some
after-market add-on or macro that will emulate or substitute for this
MSWord feature?
We get a lot of people who can't afford a lawyer in here and they
would be sunk without some foolproof way to draft documents that the
clerks downstairs will accept.
Thanks for your kind attention and for some pretty terrific
applications. What do users who finally acquire them normally
contribute?
Tom Anderson
Mendocino County Law Library
Ukiah, CA
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