Over 900,000 lawyers in the U.S. submit one billion documents to courts across the country each year. When you consider the paper that another 1.1 million attorneys generate worldwide, and the fact that most legal documents never even make it to court, you quickly realize how important word processing is to the legal profession. Word 2000 has become the top word processing program for the legal community. With Word 2002 -- a part of the Office XP suite of products -- Microsoft has incorporated many new collaboration, formatting and application stability features that address the needs of attorneys across the globe. Although many legal practitioners now use Word, widespread acceptance of the product took time to develop. Beginning about three years ago, Microsoft learned that Word did not fully address the intricacies of document production and management in the legal profession.
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