[blindLaw] Downloading cases from WestLaw in word?

Wed Aug 21 18:10:10 UTC 2019

Thanks, everyone!  Now I hopefully, can answer Jorge's question.  My
combo box defaulted to RTF, which was the second option.  Microsoft
Word was right above it.

Laura

On 8/21/19, Singh, Nandini via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Browser does matter to an extent. For the best experience, Westlaw
> recommends using IE or Chrome with JAWS. I understand that there is a
> population that uses Voice Over on an iPad, but please know that Westlaw's
> internal development team conducts most of its accessibility testing on an
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jorge Paez via
> BlindLaw
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 1:35 PM
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> Cc: Jorge Paez <paezja at mail.broward.edu>
> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Downloading cases from WestLaw in word?
>
> I haven’t done this in Chrome or  ie, and I don’t know if the browser
> affects the way it works, but accounts usually default to email, look for an
> email button, and there is a delivery preference menu right underneath it
> where you can change that.
>
>
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>> On Aug 21, 2019, at 12:51 PM, Laura Wolk via BlindLaw
>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> 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
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>>>> 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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