Category: Operating Software

Office 97 Targets Legal Professionals

Law Technology Product News (p. 1, col. 1)
January 1997

MICROSOFT Corp. has set a Jan. 16 release date for Microsoft Office 97, the company's latest suite of software applications that includes significant upgrades to Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and the PowerPoint presentation graphics program, and introduces Microsoft Outlook 97, a desktop information management application that replaces Schedule+.

The company says that many of the features of the new suite were designed for use by legal professions, particularly Word 97, which the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant calls the ultimate legal word processor. Microsoft says its Word development team visited hundreds of lawyers, legal secretaries and word processing managers in large and small firms around the globe with the goal of learning how people in the legal industry work.

The research, Microsoft says, has resulted in a product that makes writing and creating documents easier for the legal professional

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Category: Online Service

IPO Prospectus Service Launched

Law Technology Product News (p. 1, col. 2)
January 1997

NEW YORK's R.R. Donnelly Financial and IPO Crossroads of San Francisco have announced the launch of an Internet-based IPO Prospectus Service, which the companies describes as an online subscription service offering a comprehensive database of the last three years of initial public offering documents.

The companies say that the new service is designed as a "one stop" service for lawyers and investment bankers who require fast and easy access to a highly searchable database of prospectuses for U.S. companies. The service uses Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) so that the integrity of the original IPO document remains intact and is faithfully preserved, according to the companies, including the layout, pagination, graphics, tables and charts.

The new IPO service also provides two quick-scan options, including a synopsis of every IPO and the ability to download only the cover page of the document, say the companies. The entire IPO document is also available at the site, they add.

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