When you build a table of authorities, Word searches for the marked citations, organizes them by category, references their page numbers, and displays the table of authorities in the document. For example, the field
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If you add, delete, move, or edit a citation or other text in a document, you should update the table of authorities. For example, if you edit a citation and move it to a different page, you need to make sure that the table of authorities reflects the revised citation and page number. To update the table of authorities, click to the left of it and press F9.
A Table of Authorities (TOA) is the compilation of all legal authorities cited in your document. The table contains citations by category and lists the various pages those legal authorities can be located on within the document.
Learn how to create a table of authorities with the "Word Brief" Trainer and Assessment modules on the Procertas Legal Technology Assessment. See tasks 2, 4, and 5 under these modules to learn how to modify heading styles, generate and modify a table of authorities, mark citations, and update a table of authorities.
In the dialog box that appears, you will be able to decide the tab leader you want, the format you want, and what category you want to show in your table of authorities (the default is All). When done, click OK.
Authority types tell the Table of Authorities wizard what type of authorities are being listed. WordPerfect X4 already has some predefined authority types.You can create your own authority types in case the type you want to use is not prelisted. Some examples of the prelisted authority types are Cases, Statutes, Regulations, Rules. etc. To see the complete listopen the Table of Authorities wizard and click on the Type dropdown. To make your own authorities, follow the instructions in this section.
Note: This feature is not available in Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Office 365.Once added to your document, the page numbers in the table of authorities are hyperlinks to the location of the reference within your document. They are not highlighted and underlined in the document. Hover your cursor over the page number and left click to jump to that portion of the document. Select Scroll to Table of Authorities under Update TOA on the LexisNexis ribbon to return to the Table of Authorities.Note: If you used the Append Cited Docs feature before creating your Table of Authorities, the links created by the Append Cited Docs feature are removed when you create the Table of Authorities. The appendix is not removed. For more information about Append Cited Docs, see Append Cited Docs in Lexis for Microsoft Office .
Once added to your document, the page numbers in the table of authorities are hyperlinks to the location of the reference within your document. They are not highlighted and underlined in the document. Hover your cursor over the page number and left click to jump to that portion of the document. Select Scroll to Table of Authorities under Update TOA on the LexisNexis ribbon to return to the Table of Authorities.
One of the most frustrating aspects of brief writing is the amount of time it takes to compile the table of contents and table of authorities. In the early years of our practice, I would finish my memorandum and then spend a lot of time formatting the table of contents. As for the table of authorities, I would read the brief and write down each page where a citation appeared so that I could then input those pages into the table of authorities.
Due to these problems, we tweaked and modified the default settings of Microsoft Word over the years so that the program would automatically create the table of contents and table of authorities for us in the ideal format. While many firms may rely on IT professionals or support staff to configure these changes, the transition to a remote workplace may require you to configure these settings on your personal computer at home. To ease the transition, this article will walk you through the modifications you need in order to automate the creation of those tables when you write a brief.
Congratulations. You have now learned how to automate the table of authorities. There may be times that you want to modify the spacing between cases or make other tweaks to your design. However, this guide should provide you with a straightforward way to automate these processes for a basic, conforming table of contents and table of authorities.
However no one, including my legal writing professor, spent much, if any, time on formatting. We did spend some time on basic formatting (double spacing, underlining, using the spacebar key), but not nearly as much as I think would really benefit future lawyers. Like most law school students I spent a lot of time searching through tutorials on how to put Microsoft Word to better use. There was a problem that I kept running into though, these tutorials either do not exist or are hidden within the walls of the large firms who create them (for fear that if they got out the other firms would gain a competitive advantage). So instead of having information, such as how to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word, available to law students so we can focus on honing our writing skills, law students have to search for tutorials on how to create a brief that lack the information they really need.
To make changes to the formatting settings, click the Formatting tab to display those options (see Figure 9). If, for example, you want to increase the number of page references per line in the table of authorities, you would open the Page References Per Line drop-down list and choose a different value. Other adjustments can be made to the page margins, fonts and font sizes, line spacing, etc.
It is a list of cases, statutes and other legal authorities that appear in a legal brief. It's more like an index than a table of contents because many of the citations appear multiple times throughout the document, and each page number for each occurrence must be listed. The table of contents feature does not work for this.
First, a quick note about the table of authorities feature in Word: Like other special tables, a TOA (Table of Authorities) is implemented through the use of fields. In specifying what should be included in the TOA, you go through your document and "mark" items you want included. (How you mark items is covered in other WordTips.) The marking process actually causes Word to add hidden fields to your document. It is these fields that indicate what should be included in the TOA when it is compiled by Word.
When creating references for a document in Word, you may want them listed in a table of authorities so you can view where the citations occur. Word provides a handy citation manager that makes creating a table of authorities a snap. Use the following articles to access it and create a table of authorities easily in Word.
I'm generating a Table of Authorities in Microsoft word, but it has trouble recognizing that "Crim. R. 3" comes before "Crim. R. 12," so I end up with out-of-order entries in my table, like this:No matter what I do, I can't get it to treat Rule 3 as coming before Rule 12. What can I do?
Westlaw offers a tool for easily creating a table of authorities in the Westlaw drafting assistant program. The drafting assistant tool has automated cite identification for faster generation of a table of authorities. The tool also formats citations, locates authorities and complies authorities automatically.
Complex documents in a legal environment are plentiful, and generally these documents are to be filed or sent to clients on a time sensitive basis. That's why knowing the ins and outs of the tools that Word has to offer in the quick creation of Tables of Contents, Tables of Authorities, Indices, cross-references (and more) is essential in the timely completion of these documents. CK Note: A key to drafting and editing complex documents in Word is usingStyles in your formatting, especially thebuilt-in heading styles. In Word 2007 and later the features discussed in this chapter start with the References Tab on the Ribbon. Quick Navigation Using Document Map or Navigation Pane When you use styles in your complex document Microsoft Word's Document Map feature lets you quickly move to different headings within a document. This is a real time-saver when working with long documents. The Document Map is just like a road map. If you have used heading styles within your complex document you can maneuver your way through the document by clicking on the corresponding heading that you need to access for editing. By clicking the heading, you are transported to that destination in your document. So, if you had a document that was 42 pages long, and you needed to get to heading 6.2 on page 31, just click on the heading in the Document Map area and you quickly move to this location. CK Warning - The Document Map has known bugs that can corrupt your document if you use it to reorganize. This was fixed with theNavigation Pane in Word 2010. The Outline View does not have the drawbacks of the Document Map and can be used in all versions of Word, at least since Word 97. Practice: Navigate Using Document Navigation Pane (Word 2010 and later) Create or open a long document formatted with heading styles. View Tab and check the box for Navigation Pane. Click on a heading within the Navigation Pane to move to that section in the document. Click on a different heading in the document map to move to another section within the document.
To turn off the Document Pane, click X at the top right corner of the pane. See also Outline View in Microsoft Word Practice: Navigate Using Navigation Pane (Word 97 - Word 2007) Create or open a long document formatted with heading styles. Click the Document Map button on the Standard toolbar, or from the View menu, choose Document Map. Click on a heading within the document map to move to that section in the document. Click on a different heading in the document map to move to another section within the document.
To turn off the document map feature, click the Document Map button on the Standard toolbar. The button works as a toggle. CK Warning: Using the Document Map to move text in a document can lead to document corruption! Generating a Table of Contents CK Note: This chapter gives step-by-step instructions on generating a Table of Contents. Here are what I consider the best two reference articles on generating a Table of Contents in Word. Basics:How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word by Shauna Kelly More Advanced Nuances:TOC Tips and Tricks by Suzanne Barnhill Tables of Contents generated by Word are fields. Specifically, a TOC field. The simplest way to create such a field is to type the letters "TOC" and select them, then press Ctrl+F9 to make it a field. (It will look like TOC .) Then press F9 to update the field. That gives you a table of contents for outline levels 1-9. You can do much more. The following shows you how to mark text to go in the Table of Contents, how to generate that field so that it only handles certain levels and more. 2ff7e9595c
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