This guide is focused on Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat because these are the products that law firms predominantly use. Many of the tools discussed in this guide are also available in other productivity suites, although the tools might have different names and work somewhat differently.
This guide is also focused on the more recent versions of Office and Acrobat, and you might find yourself using an older edition with different layouts. These tutorials might not track perfectly with the OSX version of Office.
Fortunately, you can usually figure out how to do these tasks on any piece of productivity software by checking the help function or with a simple web search. For example, if you want to track changes to make collaboration easier, but you’re working in a small firm that uses Apple’s Pages software instead of Word, you can simply search the help function or do a web search for the feature you want and the software you’re using, like “track changes pages”, and usually there will be a tutorial in the first few results that will show you how to do it.
If you can’t find the feature you’re looking for in older versions of Office, check the help function or use a web search like “track changes word 2000”