FYI for October 2007

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Important New Release of TextMap®—Version 4 Features Unique Reporting Enhancements

TextMap® 4 is an important new version of our award-winning deposition and transcript analysis software that will be released before year-end. TextMap 4 features tight integration with our flagship CaseMap® case analysis tool. However, TextMap 4 can also be used completely independently of CaseMap by trial team members focused on searching and summarizing depositions and trial transcripts.

TextMap 4 will offer numerous new features … a great many related to enhanced reporting options. Most of the new reporting options won’t be found in other transcript summary products. These new reports make it amazingly easy to create practical and polished output based on your analysis of depositions and trial transcripts.

In this month’s Client FYI, we’ll be providing examples of some of these new reporting options: 

Word Index Option in TextMap 4

When electronic deposition or trial transcripts are imported into TextMap, each word is indexed so you can quickly find where any word of interest that appears across all transcripts in a case. In TextMap 4, the Word Index TextMap creates can be printed or saved as a PDF and used when you're not using TextMap itself.

The word index can be printed as a stand alone report or as an appendix to transcripts themselves. Most other transcript summary software products only support printing an index for one transcript at a time.  TextMap 4 will permit you to generate word indexes that cover multiple transcripts in a single index.

Here's a link to a sample word index that's been associated with a condensed transcript (four transcript pages to a single printed page). This PDF report was created directly by a test version of TextMap 4 using the TextMap built in ability to create a PDF even if you don't have a full license for Adobe® Acrobat®.

Footnote & End-Note Reports in TextMap 4

When TextMap 4 is released later this year, you’ll be able to produce two entirely new types of reports that show your annotations and notes along with the complete deposition transcript. As the names of these reports suggest, the Footnote Report places notes at the bottom of transcript pages and the End-Notes Report places notes at the back of the transcript. One extra click and these reports can include a Word Index.

When you use the TextMap built-in PDF writer (which doesn’t require an Acrobat license) to generate these reports, TextMap adds extra functionality to the PDF. For example, in the End-Notes Report, TextMap creates links between each annotation and the associated End Note. TextMap also creates links from the word index to the pages on which each word in the index appears.

Here are sample Footnote and End-Note Reports both created directly by TextMap 4.

Note-Taking Reports in TextMap 4

Another unique style of report that’s coming in TextMap 4 makes it easy to create reports that those trial team members who prefer to work with paper can use to annotate depositions. The new Note-Taking Report prints two condensed transcript pages on the left side of a printed page and adds lines for handwritten notes on the right. Once the deposition has been marked up TextMap can be used to capture their annotations and related thoughts so everyone on the trial team can share the knowledge.

As with other TextMap 4 reports, one extra mouse click and a Word Index can be added to the Note-Taking Report making it even easier for someone to use a paper copy of the deposition to conduct his or her analysis.

See a sample Note-Taking Report created directly by TextMap 4.

Title Pages

We’re taking the title page functionality we’ve created for CaseMap and TimeMap and adding it to TextMap 4. All reports can optionally receive a custom title page with information about you, your firm, date/time, etc. Graphics can be included.

ReportBooks in TextMap 4

We’re taking the ReportBook concept we introduced in CaseMap and adding it to TextMap 4. A ReportBook is a series of case reports with such optional polishing items as a cover page, table of contents, introduction, confidentiality statement, and separator pages between reports. ReportBooks can be printed or saved as a PDF using TextMap’s built-in PDF writer (which doesn’t require an Acrobat® license). 

In TextMap 4, a handful of mouse clicks can generate a ReportBook that includes reports of any given style for any number of transcripts. For example, instantly create a ReportBook that includes a Footnote report of each deposition in the case along with a title page, table of contents and cover pages for each deposition. The ReportBook can even include a single Word Index that references all included depositions.

ReportBooks can be based on full-sized transcripts, condensed transcripts, Annotation Digests, Footnote Reports, End-Note Reports, Note-Taking Reports and other options. Where relevant, a cross-transcript Word Index can be included with one click.

See a sample TextMap 4 ReportBook (this one based on Condensed transcripts reports)

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