Document Production
Our document production service (DPS) can quickly transform your handwritten notes, Excel spreadsheets or printed text into professional well-presented and correctly formatted documents.
The team of document production specialists can operate as an extension of your own in-house resource or as your firm’s sole document production resource; dramatically helping fee earners improve productivity by undertaking many different types of work:
Electronic bundles for courts
- Creation of PDF documents which comply with HMCTS guidelines
- E-bundles provided in PDF format and all pages numbered
- A hyperlinked index and bookmarks which include a short description and page number
- All text subject to OCR (optical character recognition)
- Realignment of pages
- Setting default view for all pages to be 100%.
- Ensuring resolution of the bundle is not greater than 300 dpi and optimising file size
- Quick turnaround on additions and amendments (including appropriate pagination)
More information from the Courts and Tribunal Judiciary can be found here:
https://www.judiciary.uk/announcements/general-guidance-on-electronic-court-bundles/
Word
- Creation of and amendments to Word documents with advanced document formatting including: automatic tables of contents, automatic cross-referencing, page numbering, headers and footers, footnotes, comments
- Amendments to documents from PDF manuscript mark-ups
- Reformatting of documents into your firm’s house style
- Creation of new Word documents, using your firm’s templates to produce professional and properly formatted documents
- Copy typing of handwritten notes and printed text
- Creation of precedents and templates
PDF (Portable Document Format)
- Conversion of PDFs to Word, Excel or PowerPoint
- Manipulation of PDFs (splitting/combining, moving/deleting pages, redacting text, page numbering)
Excel, formatting, and calculation
- Creation of or amendments to Excel spreadsheets
- Data entry and formatting
- Entering calculations/formulae to help analyse your data
- Our team can help with many forms of data entry using Excel formatting, DMS and CMS management. As well as helping you interpret your important information
- We can take your data and create a template to present it in a more manageable fashion
PowerPoint
- Creation of and amendments to PowerPoint presentations from handwritten notes or printed text
- Presentations professionally produced keeping within your firm’s brand/guidelines
- Our team are experts at creating or correcting PowerPoint presentations. Send us your narrative and we will transform it into a PowerPoint presentation. Our document production team can use your existing template, improve it or even design a new one for you.