USING “STYLE” TO FACILITATE FORMATTING

I have had an epiphany that is too good not to share with my classmates. Of course, I could be preaching to the choir and you may have already have figured this out yourself.

Working on an appellate brief for a classroom assignment, I decided to customize a style to make formatting my table of cases more efficient.  Now, instead of having to format each reference individually, I highlight it and apply a custom-designed style with the attributes I want.  Just a simple tab will indent subsequent lines.  Even better, a tab at the end of the last line will move the curser to the right margin and automatically insert the dot leaders (" . . . ") before the page number. No  more setting my "backwards L" right tab stop, hand tabbing to the location, and laborously typing in the periods I need to fill up the space.  One tab and the dots appear!

Sample case is below. Click here for how to.

Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158,

   64 S.Ct. 438, 88 L.Ed. 645 (1944).... 8