Legal Pleading Wizard not on Word 2007?

[mholland_esq]

I just purchased MS Office Small Business 2007. One of the primary reasons
for doing so was because I needed to use the Legal Pleading Wizard but had
lost my CDs from my old Word program. I have been trying to find the Legal
Pleading Wizard, but cannot do so with the version I just purchased. The
online templates are worthless. Any ideas?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I just purchased MS Office Small Business 2007. One of the primary reasons
for doing so was because I needed to use the Legal Pleading Wizard but had
lost my CDs from my old Word program. I have been trying to find the Legal
Pleading Wizard, but cannot do so with the version I just purchased. The
online templates are worthless. Any ideas?

There are no wizards in Office 2007 (see
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179199(TechNet.10).aspx#BKMK_Removed>).
In my experience, even if you copy the Word 2003 wizard to the templates folder
for 2007, it doesn't run.

My advice would be to buy a copy of Office 2003 if you can still find one, or
create your own template that's more to your liking.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi M.,

As Jay mentions, there are no longer any wizards included with Office in the 2007 edition.

Under Office button=>New you can search on 'pleadings' for several forms that are available. These are basically sample form sets
created with the pleading wizard that have Word 'fields' in them for putting in the variable information.

FWIW, I have put the two parts of the Word 2003 Pleadings Wizard, Pleading.wiz and PleadSub.wiz in the Word 2007 templates folder
and they do work for me. But unlike some of the other Wizards that are available from http://office.microsoft.com/templates the
Legal Pleading one does not seem to be available. It couldn't hurt to use the 'Suggest a Template' link on the templates site to
ask Microsoft to make that Wizard available.

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I just purchased MS Office Small Business 2007. One of the primary reasons
for doing so was because I needed to use the Legal Pleading Wizard but had
lost my CDs from my old Word program. I have been trying to find the Legal
Pleading Wizard, but cannot do so with the version I just purchased. The
online templates are worthless. Any ideas? <<
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*