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Edge

After completing a search, you can filter and sort the search results, use Snapshots, Tools & Settings and document tools. Or use other options to help you narrow your search results.

Filter results

Use the filters to narrow your search results by content type, source, practice area, and state and country (if applicable). Green stars will appear next to sources that contain at least 1 of the top 10 most relevant results.

Group results by source

By default, results will sort by relevance to your search. If you'd like to sort your results by source, select
Tools & Settings
 and enable
Group by Source
. This will sort results so the starred sources are at the top of the list.

Sort results by date

For searches that include results from Primary Source Materials and News/Current Awareness content categories, you can display results for each source in reverse chronological order by date. While viewing results by Source (not Relevance), select the
Sort this source by date
. This option is available only for certain primary sources and news materials for which a date sort is appropriate.

Snapshots

Depending on the Practice Area and your search criteria, snapshots may appear at the beginning of your search results. You can familiarize yourself with a topic or new area of law, get a quick answer to a question, identify the authoritative primary source, and gain directional guidance to deepen your research.

Tools & Settings

Select
Tools & Settings
 on the search results page, then select:
  • Save/Schedule Search
    : To save your search parameters to run again later. At the same time, you can schedule your search parameters to run later. 
  • Query Tool
    : To open the Query Tool. 
  • Search Within Results
    : To open a search field to search within the current set of results. 
  • Related Checkpoint Learning
    : To browse and register for a wide variety of training.
  • Text Snippets: To set the display of text snippets for search results. Checkpoint provides context for results by showing 25 words around the first keyword occurrence in a document. The default setting is
    On
    .

Document tools

You can print, export, save and flag search results with the document tools.
Print documents
  1. Select the checkbox next to each document title you want to print.
  2. Select
    Print
     in the document tools, then select
    Print
     again.
Export documents
  1. Select the checkbox next to each document title you want to export.
  2. Select
    Export
     in the document tools.
  3. Review the default settings for format and links, then select
    Export
    .
  4. Select
    Download
    .
Save documents to the default folder
  1. Select the checkbox next to each document title you want to save.
  2. Select
    Save
    . The document is saved to the current folder on the Folders screen.
Save the documents to a different folder
  1. Select the checkbox next to each document title you want to save.
  2. Select
    Save As
    .
  3. Choose the folder type.
  4. Select
    Choose Folder
    .
  5. You can select an existing folder.
  6. Or you can select
    Create Folder
    , enter a new folder name and select a location, then
    Create
    .
  7. Select
    Ok
    , then
    Save
    .
Flag documents
  1. Select the checkbox next to each document title you want to flag.
  2. Select
    Flag
    . Checkpoint adds the flagged document to the Flagged Documents screen.
  3. To access flagged documents, select
    Flagged
     in the toolbar.
  4. To remove a flag status from a document, in the open document, select the
    Flag
     icon.

Wildcard search results

When you use wildcards, Checkpoint highlights all keyword variations as generated by the wildcard.
For example, a search for "terminate*" retrieves all documents that contain at least one occurrence of the word "terminate" or any variation of "terminate" (such as, "terminates" or "terminated") and also highlights the word "terminate" or any variation of "terminate".

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