Winning Research Skills - Westlaw

Chapter 6
List of Preferences
The following list shows some of the Westlaw settings that can be customized at the Preferences
pages:
■ Location and Pricing
Select time zone.
Select date format (American or British style).
Select Find jurisdiction (specifies the publication country for documents retrieved by citation,
including KeyCite documents).
Select pricing methods for printing documents and searching on Westlaw (not applicable to law
students).
■ Change Client ID
Assign new client identifier to current research session.
■ Document Display
Select Welcome to Westlaw page.
Select Westlaw Directory view (directory listings displayed in Web view or tree view).
Select page view (split screen or full screen).
Display Westlaw Directory at sign-on.
Display referenced documents in the Link Viewer.
Display the result list after search is run.
Display prompts during query formulation and browsing.
When using assistive technology, read text for each document in the result list.
Display or print Star Paging numbers in documents.
Display Star Paging breaks in documents.
Automatically display images in search results online.
■ Result List Display
Display or hide search terms in result list.
Choose number of words to display before and after Terms and Connectors search terms in the
result list.
Choose number of citations to display in the result list.
Choose sort order for documents retrieved by Terms and Connectors searches in NewsRoom
databases.
Choose sort order for documents in Docket result list.
Choose sort order for documents in Medical Litigator result list.
■ Search
Select a default search method.
Set number of Natural Language documents to be retrieved.
Select ranking of documents in Terms and Connectors search result.
Allow Terms and Connectors searches to be interrupted.
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