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Are you a Mac user looking for legal pleading templates? It isn’t obvious, but any template designed in Windows should run on your Mac. So don’t despair! Microsoft offers several options.
In the search box, enter “Legal pleading paper.” Customized templates from our office are. We place the lawyer’s name, address, and contact information in a text box in the document footer to comply with Oregon formatting requirements. Additionally, our templates are macro-enabled and take users through a series of prompts to generate a proper case caption and document name on a 26-line pleading. (For security reasons, users must click the “enable macros” button for our templates to operate properly.) Saving Pleading Templates is a Bit Tricky Templates belong in the My Templates directory at: /Users/ username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates. Unfortunately, My Templates is part of the Library folder which is hidden by default if you are using Mac OS 7 or later.