[blindLaw] Downloading cases from WestLaw in word?

Laura Wolk laura.wolk at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 16:49:23 UTC 2019


Actually, I just tried logging on to Westlaw in both Chrome and IE to
give Jorge more specific directions, and I can't find the "download"
link anymore on either browser.  Is anyone else having this problem?

Laura

On 8/21/19, Kelby Carlson via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I regularly download cases in Word format; I'm not sure why the option
> would be missing from your site.
>
> On 8/20/19, jeffjayjohnston--- via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hello Jorge,
>>
>> RTF (Rich Text Format) is a Microsoft format very similar to .doc.  Word
>> will open RTFs and can save files as RTFs.  They usually take up less hard
>> drive space than .doc/.docx unless there are images, in which case RTFs
>> seem
>> to actually take up more space.  Wikipedia has a page describing this
>> format.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jay Johnston
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jorge Paez via
>> BlindLaw
>> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 7:22 PM
>> To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Jorge Paez <paezja at mail.broward.edu>
>> Subject: [blindLaw] Downloading cases from WestLaw in word?
>>
>> Hello everyone.
>> So, I’ve now started using WestLaw and I’m pretty familiar with the
>> options
>> for downloading documents.
>> However I’ve seen references on here to download them as word files?
>> How do you bring that option up?
>> As far as I know the download options on my end are RTF, PDF, or Word
>> Perfect.
>>
>> Any help would be gladly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jorge
>>
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