Winning Research Skills - Westlaw

Browsing Documents on Westlaw
Moving to a Print Page Reference in a Document
To view the place in a Westlaw document where a specific print page begins, select Goto Star
Page from the Tools drop-down list at the bottom of the page and click Go. A page is displayed
showing citation information for the document you are viewing. Type your print page reference
in the Go to Star Page text box and click Go.
Restricting Your Display by Field
You can restrict the display of retrieved documents by field, so that you view only selected
portions of documents in your search result. While viewing a document, select Limit by Fields
from the Tools drop-down list at the bottom of the page and click Go. A list of the fields in the
database is displayed (Figure 9.8). Use the check boxes to select the field or fields you want to
display and click OK at the bottom of the page.
Figure 9.8: Restricting your retrieved documents by field
To return to the full text of your retrieved documents, select Cancel Fields Limit from the Tools
drop-down list and click Go.
Restricting the display of retrieved documents by field is not available for documents retrieved
with multiple-database searching.
Previewing Cited References in the Link Viewer
Hypertext links within your retrieved documents allow you to jump from a citation in the
document you are viewing to the full text of the cited document. Simply click the hypertext link
for a cited reference (shown circled in Figure 9.9), and the full text of the document is displayed
in the Link Viewer (Figure 9.10).
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