Using ProDoc on Campus

Please note:

The information on this guide has been prepared by LSC-North Harris Librarians for general information purposes only and should not be construed as, nor substituted for, legal advice. The library can help you determine if a form by a specific name is located online or in a library resource. We may also point you to library resources or other websites that discuss a specific legal topic and may contain drafting guides or templates. We cannot help you determine what form you need or assist you in filling out a form.

ProDoc Legal Forms software is available to all paralegal students at Lone Star.

Current paralegal students should contact the Paralegal Department to discover how to install ProDoc for use on their own personal computer while in school.

ProDoc is also available on four computers in the LSC-North Harris Library & Learning Center.

ProDoc is installed on four computers (Computers 5-8) on the 3rd floor of the LSC-North Harris Library.

Due to peculiarities of the software, when you use ProDoc on a Library computer, you will need to approve the administrator messages that pop-up and assign a Word Processor. The steps below will walk you through these two things.

Approving Administrator Messages upon Opening

1. Click on the ProDoc icon on the desktop of the computer.

2. You will see an admin shield pop up on the Windows taskbar. Click on this.

3. Select yes on the message that pops up. 

4. A second message will appear. Select yes again.

5. It should now open the ProDoc software.

Assigning the Word Processor in ProDoc

ProDoc doesn't recognize Office 365, the version of Office used by LSC. To get documents to open in Word when using a computer on campus, you will need to tell ProDoc where to find Microsoft Word on the computer. 

1. On the ProDoc Quick Start menu, select "Customize ProDoc"

2. Select "Word Processor" under Personal Settings. Then click the box with the check mark to assign a Word Processor.

3. Click the arrow for the drop down list of word processors. 

4. Select "Microsoft 2016" since it is the latest version supported by ProDoc.

5. Click the yellow file folder icon located after the box for "Location of Word Processor"

6. Finally, you need to locate Microsoft Word on the computer. (The following steps navigate to Word on LSC computers)
   • Click on "This PC" and select "OSDisk (C:)" for the C drive.

• Double click on the folder "Program Files"

• Double click on the folder "Microsoft Office"

• Double click on the folder "root"

• Double click on the folder "Office16"

• Click on the file "WinWord" and choose open to select

7. Back on the Word Processor menu, once you have found the file location, choose "OK" to update the settings

When documents are completed using ProDoc, they tend to close. ProDoc does not save files to an easy to find location, so students are often confused as to how to open their finished forms.

To access completed documents, you need to locate where they are on the computer. There are two ways that this can be done.

Find the File on the PC:

• Open the File Explorer \

• Click on "This PC"

• Choose OSDisk (C:)

• Locate the file named "Clients." (There may be an additional folder inside of this one called "Users.")
• The document should be inside of this folder.
• When they click to open the document, it will ask them to choose a program to open it with. Choose Word from the list, and the document should open.
• Once the document is open, use File>Save As to save it to a better location (flash drive, desktop for emailing or uploading to cloud storage, etc).

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Copy the file location from ProDoc:

1. Open ProDoc and choose Document Manager
2. Click on the document that you want to open, and choose "Update"
3. This will open a window that shows the path on the computer where the file is
4. Highlight the file path (starts with C://)
5. Copy using ctrl+c on the keyboard
6. Open the File Manager
7. Click into the path bar at the top, and paste in (ctrl+v) the file path
8. This should take you to that document and ask you to select a program to open it with. 
9. Choose Word from the list
10. The file should open inside of Word. Be sure to save it in a more retrievable location.