LESA – Advanced Microsoft Word for Legal Professionals Part 2: Compare Documents, Metadata, and Encryption

Date: April 15, 2026

Location: Calgary

Address: Via Webinar

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Ever wonder how legal professionals can work securely and effectively in Microsoft Word?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

  • Meet your obligations under Code of Conduct rule 3.3-1
  • Navigate security issues with metadata, encryption, and compatibility mode
  • Use track changes to indicate your proposed changes to a document
  • Add, resolve, hide, and delete comments in your document
  • Run a comparison between any two versions of the same document to identify the differences between them
  • Choose between a Microsoft Word and a PDF file (pros and cons of each)
  • Add, manipulate, and remove watermarks in documents

Key takeaways:

  •  Clarity and confidence regarding document security (and that you aren’t unwittingly sending damaging information to opposing counsel in your documents)
  • Skills to effectively utilize tools such as track changes, compare documents, comments, and encryption
  • Strategies for negotiating documents electronically to identify how another party (like opposing counsel) has edited your document