ECF best practices for you and your office includes developing an understanding of all ECF, judge and court requirements; attending an ECF training course; obtaining a PACER login and password; developing an understanding of how to navigate your computer desktop, the internet and word processing software including portable document format (PDF); obtaining information about the various bankruptcy software programs available; obtaining a scanner for processing paper documents; having a backup filer designated and trained in case your key filing person is unavailable and developing a plan to manage incoming e-mails from the court, electronic and original paper files in your office and requests for electronic documents from other parties.