Legal pleadings created from Word Pleading wizard

[Lynn Hebenthal]

We have created a templated based on Word's Pleading wizard for our Legal
division. (Testimony). The formatting consists of numbered double-spaced
lines 1-25, etc. We need the ability to "turn off" this formatting when the
Testimony is inserted in the middle of another file, or be able to resume
regular formatting at the end of it. There are multiple steps to do this
(inserting a next page break, breaking the header/footer connections, etc.)
but when we try to record macro to do this, it stops and gives an error. We
need the VBA code that allows to do this. Can anyone help us? thanks

 

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

We have created a templated based on Word's Pleading wizard for our Legal
division. (Testimony). The formatting consists of numbered double-spaced
lines 1-25, etc. We need the ability to "turn off" this formatting when the
Testimony is inserted in the middle of another file, or be able to resume
regular formatting at the end of it.

That blasted pleading crud!!!!

If you look at the blank pleading from the Wizard, the numbers
are FLOATING in a text box alongside the margins, not attached to
the lines as part of th estyle. It should not affect cutting and
pasting text into other documents, because the numbers are
technically a watermark attached to the header.

(Note for Microsoft ... that 10-point default font of the Wizard
is TOO SMALL for any court I'm working with. They want 12, 13 or
14-point proportional fonts)

The trick is to force spacing with EXACTLY, and make the single
and double spaces multiples of each other ... I've had alignment
problems when Word is doing single and doublespacing.

There are multiple steps to do this
(inserting a next page break, breaking the header/footer connections, etc.)
but when we try to record macro to do this, it stops and gives an error.

General practice is that single-spaced indented block quote of
testimony does NOT affect the "pleading paper" numbers. The
numbers are identical on all pages. It's an archaic hangover
from the days when filings were typed/written by hand on
pre-printed numbered paper ... we're almost rid of it in this
state.

Tsu Dho Nimh