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Roger Young
I am a judge and I am trying to design a sort of menu system for judges to
enable them to select previously created jury charges when creating a jury
charge to present to jurors. Here is what I have in mind. I hope someone can
lead me in the right direction to tell me if this is possible using Word
2000.
Each judge would have a folder which contains numerous files. Each file
contains a document which covers a particular point of law. When the judge
begins the process of compiling a charge to make to the jury, I would like
to have them first interface with something like a menu which contains a
listing of all the files contained in the folder, along with some sort of
brief description of what the file contains. Then the judge would begin the
compilation process by selecting by number which corresponds with the file.
The choice would then be automatically inserted into a new document. This
new document would eventually be the completed jury charge. The judge could
then go back to the menu and continue to pick new files which would be added
sequentially to the new file until the jury charge is completed.
That's the rough idea. We have some jury charges already on disk. Some
judges use them, and some use their own which they have created over the
years. Ideally, the system would be easy to add new files (or allow
substitutions). It has to be user-friendly, because very few of these judges
are comfortable with computers, but would use them more if it were simple
like a menu system or point and click. The current method is basically using
cut and paste, and most just aren't comfortable with it.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Judge Roger Young
enable them to select previously created jury charges when creating a jury
charge to present to jurors. Here is what I have in mind. I hope someone can
lead me in the right direction to tell me if this is possible using Word
2000.
Each judge would have a folder which contains numerous files. Each file
contains a document which covers a particular point of law. When the judge
begins the process of compiling a charge to make to the jury, I would like
to have them first interface with something like a menu which contains a
listing of all the files contained in the folder, along with some sort of
brief description of what the file contains. Then the judge would begin the
compilation process by selecting by number which corresponds with the file.
The choice would then be automatically inserted into a new document. This
new document would eventually be the completed jury charge. The judge could
then go back to the menu and continue to pick new files which would be added
sequentially to the new file until the jury charge is completed.
That's the rough idea. We have some jury charges already on disk. Some
judges use them, and some use their own which they have created over the
years. Ideally, the system would be easy to add new files (or allow
substitutions). It has to be user-friendly, because very few of these judges
are comfortable with computers, but would use them more if it were simple
like a menu system or point and click. The current method is basically using
cut and paste, and most just aren't comfortable with it.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Judge Roger Young