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You can find answers and how-to’s for many of your questions right here in our Knowledge Base. You can find further resources such as tutorials on the Texas Bar Practice YouTube channel.
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By enrolling in auto-renewal for a Texas Bar Books publication, you will receive a discount on your initial purchase as well as on all future auto-renewal updates for that title. To enroll, when purchasing the digital download or printed publication online, check the “auto-renewal service” box. Your discount will automatically be applied, and you will be on the list to automatically receive updates for that title. A few weeks before the release of an update, you will receive an email that provides advance notice of the shipment of your update. If you do not opt out at that time, we will send you the update along with an invoice that includes your discount. Return privileges apply. How to return an update How to cancel the auto-renewal service Publications with the auto-renewal option The auto-renewal service is offered with the following publications. Forms manuals Texas Business Organizations Manual Texas Collections Manual Texas Family Law Practice Manual Texas Foreclosure Manual Texas Guardianship Manual Texas Probate System Texas Real Estate Forms Manual Texas Pattern Jury Charges volumes Texas Pattern Jury Charges—Business, Consumer, Insurance & Employment Texas Pattern Jury Charges—Family & Probate Texas Pattern Jury Charges—General Negligence, Intentional Personal Torts & Workers’ Compensation Texas …
How do I apply for a scholarship for Texas Bar Books publications?
The State Bar of Texas is committed to making high-quality legal publications accessible to all its members, across all income categories. Accordingly, scholarships are available that may be applied to the purchase of Online and digital versions of Texas Bar Books publications.* If you are a member of the State Bar in good standing and have requested fewer than three titles through the scholarship program in the last twelve months, you qualify. Download the form below and email to salesdesk@texasbar.com. *Materials ineligible for scholarship include our Quick Reference Guides and titles we resell from other publishers.
What if nothing seems to download or install on my computer?
What should download? Online manuals: Although accessing the content of the Online manuals doesn’t require downloading any files to your computer, using their Word, PDF, and Excel forms in your practice does require downloading the desired individual forms in those formats. To download a form, click the Word, PDF, or Excel icon in the upper right-hand part of the desired form’s web page. Digital downloads: The digital downloads must be downloaded after purchase and accessed on your local computer afterward. See how to download them here. Texas Bar Books toolbar: Using the toolbar to more easily modify the Online manuals’ and digital downloads’ Word forms requires downloading the toolbar and installing it on your local computer, if you haven’t already installed the toolbar for a different product. See how to install the toolbar here. Watch the toolbar tutorial video here. Nothing seemed to download If you try to download an Online manual’s Word, PDF, or Excel files or the toolbar’s or a digital download’s zip files and nothing seems to happen, it’s possible that the file did in fact download but your computer provided you with little or no notice of that fact. It’s also possible that your computer’s security …
How do I download the digital version of my manual?
Go to My Account To download the digital version of a manual, first go to My Account. Click “Download” On your My Library page, under “Downloadables,” click the “Download” button that corresponds with the product. Extract zip file contents The product will download packaged in a zip file. To access all of the features of the digital download, you should extract the contents of that zip file (see how here). Move the digital download where you want After extracting the contents of the zip file, you may copy or move the digital download’s product-named parent folder (for example, “Texas Collections Manual 2020”) and all of its contents to the desired location on your computer. The folder hierarchy and folder and file names within that parent folder, however, should not be altered, or cross-document links and other advanced features of the digital download could stop working. The Texas Bar Books toolbar Many digital downloads include Word forms designed to use the Texas Bar Books toolbar. These digital downloads will include a “Navigational Toolbar” subfolder inside the product’s “Forms” folder (for example, at C:\Texas Collections Manual 2020\Forms\Navigational Toolbar\). Unless the toolbar has already been installed on your computer for a previous product, …
What forms are included in the manual?
The Online manuals contain all of the content of the printed books as web pages accessible via any Internet browser on any device able to access the Internet, and the digital downloads contain all of the books’ content in PDF. This content includes all of the books’ forms in both cases. Forms in Word, Excel, and PDF Online manuals and most digital downloads also include State Bar of Texas–copyrighted forms from the books as downloadable, editable text files in MS Word and, in some cases, Excel. Some products also include the full text of selected CLE articles from the TexasBarCLE Online Library or forms available from state and federal agencies as individual PDF files. Digital downloads of the Texas Pattern Jury Charges series (both civil and criminal) contain charge language/instruction files in Word. Texas Bar Books toolbar Although all of the products’ Word files are compatible with both Word on Windows and Word for Macintosh, the Texas Bar Books toolbar is specifically designed for use with Word on Windows systems only. Instructional language is included in the Word forms as hidden text. Be aware that this language will be included in your completed forms unless you specifically delete it.
How do I use the Texas Bar Books toolbar?
What is the Texas Bar Books Toolbar for Word? The Texas Bar Books toolbar is a macro file that you can add to Word. It will help you more easily manipulate the forms provided with the online subscription and digital download practice manuals, as well as with the digital downloads of Guardianship Alternatives and Law Office Road Map. The toolbar may be used to— view or hide the instructions embedded in the forms; find and highlight the next variable, instruction, or optional text; browse, select, and copy clause text from forms that are collections of clauses; retain the embedded instructions for viewing while you work on your hard drive but prevent them from printing on your hard copies; and delete the embedded instructions entirely on forms you plan to email or file electronically. Note: The Texas Bar Books Toolbar is compatible with Word on Windows systems only. If you have a different operating system or word processor, learn how to manipulate forms content without the toolbar here. How to Download and Install the Texas Bar Books Toolbar for Word Your Texas Bar Books digital practice manual download includes the toolbar. You can find it in the Forms folder included with your downloaded materials. …
How do I obtain access for other members of my organization?
If more members of your organization need access to an online subscription or a digital download, you may purchase an entity license for your entire organization at a discount, or you may purchase only however many subscriptions or digital download licenses you need. Entity licenses An entity license allows an entire organization to access an online subscription or digital download at special prices. To inquire about an entity license, contact Firm & Group Sales Manager Laura Angle at 512-263-2802, or email her at langle@texasbar.com. Entity licenses are subject to the terms of the original license concerning permitted users of the online subscription or digital download. Multiple subscriptions If an entire organization doesn’t need access to an online manual, but a few members of the organization do, the organization may purchase however may subscriptions they need and manage which members of the organization have access. To manage multiple subscriptions for an organization, create a Texas Bar Practice account for the organization instead of as an individual—or log in to the organization’s account—purchase the desired number of subscriptions on the subscription product’s page in the Bookshop, and allocate those subscriptions as you see fit. Each additional subscription is for one additional lawyer …
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