Monthly Archives: October 2006

Steve Jobs uses it when he is creating that famous “Reality Distortion Field.” Why shouldn’t you? Keynote is a slick, intuitive application that makes it easy to build spiffy presentations. As a 1L, I didn’t need to use Keynote, as pretty much all I did was read cases and prep for finals. However, this semester [...]

Every time I use Microsoft Word, I feel like I’ve just strapped a 60 lb. rucksack on my back. Sure, at some point I may need the Sterno stove, pots, pans, and dehydrated meals that are stuffed into the pack. But most of the time I just need a windbreaker and some trail mix. I don’t want to deal with implements I may never use; they just get in the way.

Word is the de facto standard for legal documents. You turn in briefs, papers, and other written assignments in Word because the .doc format has squeezed out all others (though some old school lawyers and judges still use WordPerfect). However, just because you have to turn the final product in as a Word document doesn’t mean you have to use Word every step of the way.