Many people still generate their Table of Authorities using the MS Word Generic package.
We were working on a large Table of Authorities. All the entries needed to be marked. There were cases, statutes, rules, as well as state cases.
Within the Mark Citation dialog box it was noted that there was no State Cases category entry nevertheless the attorney wanted the cases separated out.
1. We do not want to go down the road of running the TOA where all the cases were clumped together (Federal and State) whereupon we first had to separate them out manually. You know that would be both time consuming and each new turnaround of the document would present a new set of separation and unnecessary work.
2. MS Word does a decent job at generating the TOA provided that we help it to do so. So let us see the very simple solution
3. Go to "References" and click on "Mark Citation" so that the Mark Citation Dialog Box opens up.
4. Go to the "Category" section and click on the down arrow. You will see all of the categories that are the standards and then you will see numbers following like 8, 9, 10 etc.
5. Choose No. 8 or the next available number and then click on the Category button.
6. In the "Replace With" area, type in the name of the needed category such as State Cases.
7. Press Okay and now you have a new category that you can use to separate out your case types.
8. When you run the TOA your finished TOA will have TOA Headings and Table of Authorities as the two styles of the finished product. View in Draft View to easily see the styles associated with the finished TOA.
9. Look at the TOA Heading style and make sure that it matches the font that you are using for the document as a whole. If not, modify the TOA Heading Style and make sure it matches the document font.
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