Link to Cites in Lexis for Microsoft Office

Link to Cites Overview
Link to Cites Options
Removing Links Created by Link to Cites

 

Link to Cites Overview 

 

The Link to Cites button creates permanent hyperlinks between your cites and full text documents on the Lexis^® or Lexis+^® service. If you convert the Word document with links to a PDF document, the links persist in the PDF document.

Note: There are several ways to activate Get a Document and link to Shepard's^® in your document. For more information comparing the different methods, see Cite Checking your Document: Creating Links to Documents and Shepards .
 

After clicking Link to Cites, just save and send the document to someone else. The recipient of the document can access the full text documents with a Lexis or Lexis+ ID and password.

Use the Link to Cites feature as your final step before saving the document. If you click Link to Cites and then use another function in Lexis^® for Microsoft^® Office, such as Check Cite Format, the links created by Link to Cites are automatically removed from the document.

The Link to Cites button creates links for cases, agency decisions, statutes, and regulations. The links open in your default web browser.

Take the following steps to create links to the citations in your documents:

1. Open your brief or other legal document.
2. Click the LexisNexis^® tab.
3. Click Link to Cites.
   Note: If you are using the Office 365 or Word 2016 versions, click the arrow below Get Cited Docs and select Link to Cites.
4. Select Include link only or Include link and Shepard's Signal^TM indicator.
5. After Lexis for Microsoft Office creates links for all the citations, click a link in the document.
6. A new window appears with the full text document in your default browser.
   Note: If you a citing to a table case, the link retrieves a list of all cases with that cite and does not open a full text document automatically.

You must click one document at a time, there is no way to display all documents in a list when using Link to Cites.

If you include the Shepard's Signal indicator, the signal is current as of the time you created the links. You must run Link to Cites or Get Cited Docs each time you edit the document to keep the indicators current.

Note: If you used the Append Cited Docs feature before using Link to Cites, the links created by the Append Cited Docs feature are removed when you use Link to Cites. The appendix is not removed. You cannot have links created by both features in the same document. For more information about Append Cited Docs, see Append Cited Docs in Lexis for Microsoft Office .

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Link to Cites Options 

 

Click Options on the LexisNexis^® ribbon then select Link to Cites to select how you want the hyperlinks to appear in your document.

You can select from the following:

• When creating hyperlinks for citations:
  • Include full reference - this option includes the full citation plus any parentheticals in a single link to the citation
  • Create additional separate hyperlinks for citations in parentheticals - this option creates separate links to citations within parentheticals to the original citation
     
• Do not create hyperlinks for citations without full document match - this option only creates links to documents available in full on the LexisNexis^® services
   
• Create hyperlinks for case citations only - this option will not create hyperlinks for documents that are not cases, such as statutes or rules
   
• Table of Authorities choices:
  Note: The Table of Authorities is not available in the Office 365 version of Lexis for Microsoft Office.
  • Create hyperlinks for Table of Authorities entries and all citations in the body of my document - all citations throughout the body of your document will be hyperlinked
  • Create hyperlinks for Table of Authorities entries ONLY - only the citations in your Table of Authorities will be hyperlinked and the citations throughout the body of your document will not be hyperlinked
     

 

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Removing Links Created by Link to Cites 

 

When you click Link to Cites, Lexis for Microsoft Office creates links in your document. To remove the links, click Link to Cites again.

Note: Unlike the Get Cited Docs feature, Remove Citation Metadata under Clean Doc does not remove the links created by Link to Cites. You can use Remove Hyperlinks under Clean Doc to remove the links if necessary.

Note: If you are using Lexis for Microsoft Office using the Office 365 or Mac versions, the Remove Hyperlinks feature is located under Check Cite Format > Set Cite Format.

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