About Validate Document Formatting

Use Drafting Assistant Litigation's Document Formatting tool to validate court-rule compliance, auto-fix correctable issues, review detectable/informational rules, and apply or ignore suggested changes before filing.
Once you finish drafting your document, use the Document Formatting tool to check whether the document is formatted in accordance with your jurisdiction's court rules. The Document Formatting tool is only available in Drafting Assistant Litigation. Drafting Assistant uses the following categories of rules to help you validate the document’s format:
  • Correctable rules
    : Relate specifically to your document and Drafting Assistant can correct them for you, for example, incorrect margins, fonts, and line spacing.
  • Detectable rules
    : Relate specifically to your document but Drafting Assistant can't correct them for you, for example, if the document is over the page limit.
  • Informational rules
    : Relate only to the type of document you are validating and provide additional information you may need prior to filing, for example, a blue cover is required.
Validate the format of a document by doing the following:
  1. Select
    Document Formatting
    on the left side of your document.
  2. Select the court from the Court lists. Optionally, select
    See Map
    to view a map, and then select a state, select the court in the list, and select
    OK
    .
  3. Select a document type from the Document Type list.
  4. Select the
    Save document before continuing
    checkbox to save your original document as the Document Formatting tool will change that document.
  5. Select
    OK
    . The first correctable rule, for example, Invalid font, is listed.
  6. Do one of the following:
    • To ignore the first instance of the rule and move to the next instance of the rule, select
      Ignore Once
      .
    • To ignore all instances of the rule and move to the next rule, select
      Ignore Rule
      .
    • To change the first instance of the rule and move to the next instance of the rule, select an option under
      Suggestions
      and select
      Change
      .
    • To change all instances of the rule and move to the next rule, select This point forward in the
      Change All Applies To
      list. Then, select an option under
      Suggestions
      and select
      Change All
      .
  1. Repeat step 6 for each correctable rule.
  2. To sign on to Westlaw and access KeyRules, select
    KeyRules
    .
  3. To recheck the document, select
    Recheck Document
    .
  4. After you finish checking the formatting of the document, a list of detectable and informational rules displays, if available. To print the list of detectable and informational rules, select
    Print
    .
  5. Select the red
    X
    to close.

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