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  • Product: Westlaw Canada
  • Subject: Documents,Notes,Research

Add a note to a document

You can add notes to documents and share them with your contacts in Westlaw Canada.
To add a note to a document:
  1. Select
    Annotations
    , then
    Add Note
    .
  2. Enter your note text and select
    Save
    .
The note will display at the beginning of the document.
To delete a note from a document:
  1. Select Display all notes. to display all notes added to the document.
  2. Select Edit note. next to the note, then
    Delete
    .
  3. Select
    Close
     to delete the note, or
    Undo
     to keep it.

Add a note to a specific section of a document

  1. Select a section of text within the document.
  2. Select a colour in the
    Add a Note
     section.
  3. Enter your note text and select
    Save
    .
The section of text will display highlighted in the colour you selected with Note. in the same colour next to it.
To delete a note added to a specific section:
  1. Select Note. for the note you want to delete.
  2. Select the note text.
  3. Select
    Delete
    .
  4. Select
    Close
     to delete the note, or
    Undo
     to keep it.

Share a note

To share a note with one or more of your contacts:
  1. When you add the note, select
    Share with contacts
    .
  2. Select the people you want to share the note with, then
    Insert
    . Select Close. to close the window.
  3. Select
    Save
    .
The contacts you shared your note with will see it when they access the document in Westlaw with their OnePass username and password.
You can stop sharing a note at any time. To do so:
  1. Select the note.
  2. Select
    previously shared
    .
  3. To stop sharing the note with all contacts, select
    Delete All
    . To stop sharing with a specific person, select Delete. next to their name.
  4. Select
    Save
    .

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