Saturday, January 15, 2011

Homage to the Excel Spreadsheet

After more than 15 years of practice, I only just realized the value of using an Excel spreadsheet to organize discovery responses. You see, Excel spreadsheets have these nifty tabs allowing you to create multiple sheets, one after the other. You can designate each sheet to correspond to a particular source of discovery, such as "Joe Schmoe's Answers to Interrogatories," "Mary Jane's Answers to Interrogatories," and "Joe Schmoe's Deposition Answers." When complete, you have one document with all discovery responses at your fingertips, and you can easily move from sheet to sheet for quick comparisons.

Perhaps it's sad I find this exciting. Nonetheless... YIPPEE!