Westlaw New Zealand

Highlighting and notes 

1. When you select text in a document, a shortcut menu will appear.   
2. You have the option to save the highlighted text to a folder. When you hover over Save to Folder, a selection of your folders will be displayed. Select a folder to save the highlighted text and document to a folder. You can choose to highlight the text in a particular colour. 

3. To delete a highlight, click on the highlighted text and select Delete Highlight. 

4. When you print, download or email documents that have highlights, you can include these by selecting the Document and My Annotations option. 

Adding a note to a document 

Document-level notes display at the top of the page, rather than next to the text. These notes remain indefinitely or until you delete them. 

1. From the document view page, click on the Add note icon from the tool bar and select Add document level note. 

2. Write your note in the space provided in the Note box. The maximum number of characters is 3000. 
3. Notes remain with the document indefinitely or until you remove them. You can edit the text of a note or delete a note by clicking on the edit note icon. 

Adding a note in-line with text 

1. Highlight the text that you would like to add a note to. 
2. From the shortcut menu that appears, select Add Note. Write your note in the space provided. The maximum number of characters is 3000 (including spaces). 
3. The text to which the note relates will be highlighted and the note will appear in the margin next to the text.  

4. You can edit the text of a note by clicking on the Edit Note icon. Delete a note by clicking on the Delete Note icon 

Copy with Reference 

The Copy with Reference feature will copy a portion of a document and paste it into a document outside of Westlaw  New Zealand, such as Word or email.

1. Select the text you wish to copy.
2. Choose Copy with Reference from the shortcut menu. A message will appear stating the Text is copied. You can then paste the text in your document. When the selected text is pasted into your file, it will include a reference where it was extracted from in Westlaw.

Note: 

• To include the citation information, before completing the copy with references steps.
• First, click the drop down to the right of the Copy icon and select Copy Citation. 
• The citation will appear on the screen. Click Copy.
• For future use of the copy with reference feature, Westlaw New Zealand will include a reference that is hyperlinked.

Save a Snippet 

A snippet is a section of text which may include a quote, legal principal and/or relevant text. Snippets are saved to a folder and when you click on a saved snippet it will take you directly to that section of the document referenced. 

1. Select a section of text you want to save. If you choose to create a new folder you must do this first before saving the search. 
2. Select Save to a New Folder to save the snippet to then click Save.  
3. Choose Add Snippet from the menu.