There are many tools that exist now that did not in the 1990's and early 2000's for learning how to become a legal secretarial/word processor. The internet and cd-roms did not exist back then and they are some of the tools that one can use to help become a legal secretary/word processor. Before these mediums existed people would have to learn from on-the-job training only. If you were not quick and could not adapt quickly you would lose a temporary assignment or not be asked to come back or even worse DNU'd (put on the Do Not Use list of a law firm or financial firm). Once you became DNU'd you usually can never go back because these lists are kept for years.

In the 1990's WordPerfect was the dominant software and in many ways much more complicated than Microsoft because of the reveal codes feature. In WordPerfect everything that was applied to a document had to be coded properly and everybody used coding differently. The main advantage that Microsoft Word has over WordPerfect is that it eliminated this feature and there is basically one way to do a task. If one has a problem in Microsoft you know where to look to fix it. In WordPerfect you would have to search for codes and they could be in any location, the top, middle or bottom of a page along with many other codes. And for all of this most people learned WordPerfect from on the job experience. Before one became highly skilled in WordPerfect it would take years. Learning Microsoft would take less time but now one could learn in record time.

With the advent of the internet and cd-rom technology one can learn word processing in record time. These subjects are discussed along with many other topics such as typing speed, registering at employment agencies, questions asked on employment agency word processing tests and much more at the link given below.

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