Presented material necessary for the study of the discipline "Informatics". Along with the basics of computer science, the manual pays sufficient attention to the means of automation of work in the office : work with legal information systems (IS 'Garant') , professional work with word processors (for example, MS Word) , Excel spreadsheets and database management systems (MS Access), as well as software and hardware, which coordinate electronic and paper document flow (scanners,) Program Fine. Reader) and provide translation of foreign-language documents. The manual is intended for students of full-time and correspondence departments of the specialty 021100 "Jurisprudence", but it can be useful for students and other specialties studying the disciplines "Informatics", "Basics of algorithmization and programming"