THE BENEFITS
Marking text
 Assigning issues
 Taking notes
 Searching transcript
 Generating reports
 Saving your annotated transcript
 Access to the realtime in your office
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Marking Text
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Mark identifies a line or lines by placing a black diamond indicator to the
left of the line numbers. Using the Quick Finds and Find commands you can
locate marked lines in the file. When using Generate Reports, marked lines
can be included in the report.
Use any of the following methods to mark lines.
Mark the current line by pressing the Spacebar, F5, or click the Mark icon.
You can also use your mouse to select several lines at one time and
highlight and mark them.
ISSUES
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An Issue is an identifier for a specific topic
or category that is assigned to a line or
lines of text making it easier to locate
information in the transcript. For example,
you create an issue named "perjury".
During the proceedings, whenever you
think the witness committed perjury, you
insert the "perjury" issue. You can then
generate reports to have a reference to all
the issues and their locations.
Creating master issue list
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Maintain Master Issues allows you to create and edit an unlimited list of issues. You
can assign different text and background colors to issues for easy identification when
inserting issue codes.
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Up to 10 issues can be assigned to the Quick Issue toolbar for easy issue coding
during the proceedings.
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Quick Issue assignment can be changed at any time before or during testimony using
Assign Quick Issues. Quick Issues are saved for use in the another CaseViewNet
session.
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To create your master issues, Select “Options” from the toolbar and then “Maintain
Master Issues.”
This will bring up the master issues list. You can edit
the existing issues or add new issues. You can assign
your issues different text color and different
background colors.
When you are finished, your issues will show up on the quick issue
toolbar with the names and colors you have assigned:
During your hearing, you
can hit the number on your
keyboard which you have
assigned a particular issue,
and it will tag the text on the
left side with the
corresponding colored
diamond.
TAKING NOTES
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Notes attaches your typed text to a line or
lines of text in the transcript file. When
you create a note, the notepad icon
displays in the left margin to indicate the
lines contain an attached note.
HOW TO ATTACH A NOTE
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Position the cursor on the line
or highlight multiple lines to
contain the note and do any of
the following:
Click the Note icon
on the
toolbar.
Press Ctrl + n.
·Right click on a line and
select, Insert Note from the
Right Click menu.
This will bring up the
“Annotate” box. Type your
note in the right-hand side. Hit
“Ok” to save your note to the
transcript.
ASSIGN NOTE AN ISSUE
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An issue can be created
in conjunction with a
note. When you create an
issue in conjunction with
a note, the line becomes
highlighted in the
background color
assigned to the issue.
In the “Annotate” box,
check the issue which
corresponds to your note.
SEARCHING
QUICK FIND
 SEARCH TEXT
 DYNAMIC WORD INDEX
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QUICK FIND
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You can search forward or backward in
the file for answers, questions, occurrence
of a word, marks, notes, and issues using
the Quick Find toolbar:
answers
questions
text
marks
notes
issue
SEARCHING
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You can perform a more
thorough search by using the
“Search Text” icon on the
toolbar.
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This will bring up the “Find
Criteria” box on the left-hand
side of the screen.
You can search the text, as
well as your annotations. If
you are on the second day of a
trial and you have the CVN
transcript open for the
previous day, you can search
that transcript, as well.
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For example, in this search, I typed in the word “inconsistent,”
because I knew I’d made a note to myself using that particular
word. I checked the “Search Transcript” and the “Search Notes”
in the “Find Criteria.” It took me to the note I made and showed
me my annotation, “I think this testimony is inconsistent with the
previous expert."
DYNAMIC WORD INDEX
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Find Dynamic Index Word
allows you to quickly locate a
word or phrase in the
transcripts by displaying the
indexed word information in
the Dynamic Index dialog box.
To open the Dynamic Word
Index, select “Search/Find
Dynamic Index Word” from the
toolbar. The Dynamic Word
index will appear on the righthand side of the screen.
Your court reporter can also
add this feature to your
toolbar, if you’d like.
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In this example, I am
searching for the word
“nanogram.”
Under the “Index On” I
have selected “Current.” I
could also search a
previous day’s transcript,
if I had saved it.
It tells me how many
times the word
“nanogram” occurs, and
below that, it tells me the
page and line number:
91:1. Page 91, line 1.
If I click on the “91:1,” it
will take me to that exact
spot in the transcript.
REPORTS
You can generate a
report that will show you
all of the marks, issues,
and notes you have made
on your transcript.
 To generate a report,
select “Reports/Generate
Reports” on the toolbar.
This will bring up the
“Generate Report”
dialogue box.
 Check the appropriate
boxes for what you’d like
your report to include.
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REPORTS
You can either choose to print your report
or save it.
 If you save your report, it will save
automatically as a .txt file.
 As a .txt file, you have the ability to open
the report in Word or Notepad and
cut/copy and paste text from the report
into another document, for example, a
written Opinion.
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ISSUE REPORT
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Title “Issues Report”
Bullet heading for
assigned issue,
“Credible.”
Page and line number for
each time that issue was
assigned, [97:5].
Timestamp and the text
that was next to the
issue, “Quarter 2009 for
Mr. Romero.”
NOTES REPORT
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Title “Notes Report”
Page and line number,
[102:3]
Note that was made, “I
THINK THIS TESTIMONY
IS INCONSISTENT WITH
THE PREVIOUS EXPERT.”
Timestamp and the text
in the transcript that is
associated with that note.
MARKS REPORT
Title “Marks Report”
 Page and line
number, [99:5]
 Timestamp
 Marked text, “A.
That’s okay. So, I
meet with the
students before
class.”
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THE BENEFITS OF SAVING YOUR
CVN TRANSCRIPT
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You can save your transcript inclusive of all of your
annotations at the end of the day for future use.
You can have multiple days of proceedings open on your
bench laptop during a trial to refer back to previous
testimony.
You can save and reopen the transcript in your office.
In order to do so, please have your court reporter install
the CVN software on your office computer.
If you’d like to have your CVN transcript saved, PLEASE
make sure to tell your court reporter to save it for you, if
you haven’t already done so yourself. Otherwise, the
court reporters routinely just delete the bench CVN files,
and all of your annotations will be deleted.
REALTIME ACCESS IN YOUR
OFFICE
CVN is run over the county network.
 If you’d like to be able to view the
realtime transcript of the proceedings, for
example, on your lunch break while you’re
in your office, you can have your court
reporter log you into the realtime session
and view it from your office computer, as
well.
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SUMMARY
Mark text, assign issues, make notes
 Search the transcript
 Generate reports to show annotations
 Cut/copy and paste text from the report
 Save the annotated transcript for future
use
 Run realtime simultaneously in courtroom
and office
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