Name: Jon Canty Location: Washington, DC What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was doing desktop support to pay for school. It was a win95/98 environment when I started so there was much suffering for both users and administrators. How did you get the opportunity to join the…
Once redactions have been added to a PDF file, if someone has a different preference for how the redactions should be formatted, this fast tip demonstrates how to bulk edit the redaction properties. Download Sample Files
If you still burn data to CDs or DVDs, you will need to print disk labels. This fast tip demonstrates how to use a free software program called Avery DesignPro to create the disk labels. Download Sample Files
One of my favorite features in MS Word is Format Painter. This fast tip demonstrates how to use it in two ways. Download Sample Files
Abby Rosenbloom and I decided to write a series of articles together related to the infamous world of managing a document review. There are no standards. There are best practices. There are personal preferences. There are lessons learned. I have known Abby for over 15 years. We have worked in different roles within the industry,…
We often receive AutoCAD files in litigation matters. They are architectural diagrams and usually require special software to view them. This fast tip demonstrates how to use a free software program called DWG TrueView to open the files and optionally export them to PDF format if desired. Download Sample Files
This fast tip demonstrates how to use conditional formatting in Excel to highlight duplicate rows, sometimes referred to as duplicate records. In a previous Fast Tip Friday, I demonstrated how to highlight duplicate values using Excel. Download Sample Files
Two people. Both have worked in litigation support for many years. They live about 9,800 miles apart. They have a 14 hour time difference between them. They met online. No, not on one of those dating sites — they met because of this Litigation Support Guru site. One of the most wonderful things about starting this site…
Mike Hamilton is a senior manager of e-discovery programs at Exterro. He is a legal and marketing professional with a passion and focus for creating thoughtful, out-of-the-box campaigns that advance e-discovery education and best practices. He holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Oregon School of Law. Find him on LinkedIn and follow him…
This fast tip demonstrates how to use conditional formatting in Excel to highlight duplicate values within a column of data. In another Fast Tip Friday, I demonstrated how to highlight duplicate rows using Excel. Download Sample Files
Name: Evan Benjamin Location: Philadelphia, PA What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? People do not believe the path I took to get here – I was an accountant who jumped into computer networking, and then I jumped into computer forensics, and then I jumped into e-discovery and litigation support….
We often receive videos that are in VOB format and we would prefer to convert them to a more user friendly MP4 format that plays on more devices. This fast tip demonstrates how to easily convert the file using Handbrake. Download Sample Files
A while back I wrote an article entitled A Text File Disguised as a Load File. It is the most read article on this site. Why? Because as the article states, there are many overlapping meanings for the same term and it can be tricky for a newbie to learn all of the terminology we use…
This fast tip demonstrates how to create a split zip archive. This is useful if the one large zip file is too large to email or it won’t fit on a single CD. For more information, see my Tools of the Trade series 7-Zip article.
Have you ever wondered what is taking up so much space on your hard drive? Have you ever wanted to get an overview of the file contents that just arrived on an external drive? This fast tip demonstrates how to use Treesize Free to break down hard disk space usage down to the file level.
Mike Hamilton is a senior manager of e-discovery programs at Exterro. He is a legal and marketing professional with a passion and focus for creating thoughtful, out-of-the-box campaigns that advance e-discovery education and best practices. He holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Oregon School of Law. Find him on LinkedIn and follow him…
This fast tip will demonstrate how to create a full-text index across folders and subfolders of PDF files. This enables the user to run searches across all of the PDF files at once, including bookmarks and comments if desired. In last week’s Fast Tip Friday, I demonstrated how to use an index to increase search…
Sometimes we receive very large PDF files with thousands of pages and of course we then need to run searches within the file. When the PDF file is very large, each search can take a while to run. This fast tip demonstrates how to use an embedded index to increase the search speed.
Have you ever needed to add the same subfolder to a bunch of existing folders? For instance, let’s say you have a list of folders that are named by custodian and you need to add an Exhibits subfolder to each and every custodian folder. This fast tip demonstrates how to automate the task using an…
Name: David Hancock Location: Tampa, FL What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was a Litigation Paralegal for 15 years prior to transitioning to the Litigation Support world, when Litigation Support became “a thing”. How did you get the opportunity to join the litigation support community? The firm at…
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