Help Topics for Lexis® Research
Use the links below to browse the help topics available for performing research using Lexis®. Use the search box at the top of the page to find a specific term or idea you're looking for. Select the Lexis® Help drop-down list to choose help content specific to a different Lexis feature.
Getting Started
- Tutorial: Getting Started with Lexis®
- Home Page
- How do I search using Lexis®?
- How do I Shepardize® a citation?
- How do I find a document when I know the citation?
- How do I restrict my search to a specific source?
- What is narrowing my results?
- What is delivery?
- Full Document Page
- How do I create an alert?
- How do I save my research?
- How do I save a document from my results to a folder?
About Lexis®
Performing a Standard Search with Lexis®
Searching Specific Sources & Topics and Using Pre-search Filters
- How do I select a specific source to search in?
- How do I restrict my search to a specific source?
- How do I save a source as a favorite?
- How do I restrict my search to a specific source?
- Sources for Formats
- Search In a Specific Source
- How do I browse through all available topics?
- How do I search in a specific topic?
- How do I save a topic as a favorite?
- How do I restrict my search to a specific practice area or legal topic?
- How do I restrict my search using filters?
- How do I save a filter as a favorite?
Using Connectors and Commands to Search
- Search Connectors Quick Reference Card
- How do I use search connectors?
- How do I restrict my search to a specific date or date range?
- Connector Order and Priority
- Lexis® Equivalents for Other Connectors
- Words Ignored During a Natural Language Search
- and Connector
- and not Connector
- atleast Command
- near/n Connector
- onear/n Connector
- or Connector
- pre/n Connector
- /n Connector
- w/n Connector
- w/p or /p Connector
- w/seg Connector
- w/s or /s Connector
- pre/s Connector
- pre/p Connector
- Using not with proximity connectors
- Using ! to Find Variations of a Word
- Using * to Find Variations of a Word
- Using ? to Find Variations of a Word
Saving Searches and Filters as Favorites So You Can Use Them Again
Using the Shepard's® Citations Service
- What is a Shepard's® citation search?
- What is a Shepard's® phrase level indicator?
- What is a Shepard's® depth of discussion indicator?
- How do I Shepardize® a document when I know its citation?
- How do I narrow or filter my Shepard's report?
- How do I sort the information within my Shepard's® reports?
- How do I use the Search Within Results: feature in Shepard's®?
- The Shepard's Signal™ Indicators
- Shepard's® Appellate History
- Shepard's® Citation Formats and Alphabetical List of Editorial Phrases
Working with Shepard's Alert® searches
Saving Research to Work Folders
- What Are Folders?
- How do I save my research?
- How do I create a new folder?
- How do I save a document from my results to a folder?
- How do I save text to a folder?
- How do I share a document in my results with other users?
- How do I share an existing document with other users?
- How do I find an item saved in one of my folders?
- Working with the Recycle Bin
- How do I save a permanent link to a page I'm viewing?
- Tutorial: Using Folders in Lexis®
Working with Your Search Results
- What is a results list?
- What is narrowing my results?
- How do I restrict my results to a specific date range?
- How do I restrict my results to documents containing specific keywords?
- How do I restrict my results to a specific practice area or topic?
- How do I restrict my results to specific categories?
- How do I download my results or documents?
- How do I email my results or documents?
- How do I print my results or documents?
- How do I save my research?
- How do I create a new folder?
- How do I save a permanent link to a page I'm viewing?
- Tutorial: Working with Search Results
Working with Documents
- What is a full document page?
- How do I view a document in reading view?
- How do I search for text in the document I'm viewing?
- How do I save a document from my results to a folder?
- How do I copy a citation to the clipboard?
- How do I display the Legal Issue Trail™?
- How do I use the Legal Issue Trail?
- What are Topic Summaries?
- Page Numbering in Reporter Documents
- What is Shepard's® More Like This Headnote
- What is Table of Contents browsing?
- How do I make annotations in a document?
- How do I edit or delete annotations I've made in a document?
- How do I highlight text in a document?
- How do I hide or delete highlighting in a document?
Saving Research to Work Folders
- What Are Folders?
- How do I save my research?
- How do I create a new folder?
- How do I save a document from my results to a folder?
- How do I save text to a folder?
- How do I share a document in my results with other users?
- How do I share an existing document with other users?
- How do I find an item saved in one of my folders?
- Working with the Recycle Bin
- How do I save a permanent link to a page I'm viewing?
- Tutorial: Using Folders in Lexis®
Delivering Your Search Results and Documents
- What is delivery?
- How do I download my results or documents?
- How do I email my results or documents?
- How do I print my results or documents?
- How do I send my results or documents to Dropbox?
- How do I download, print, email, and send to Dropbox the document attachments associated with my results?
- Tutorial: Delivering Results in Lexis®
About Lexis® Search Advantage
- About Lexis® Search Advantage
- How do I limit my search results to show only those documents for my organization?
- How do I filter my list of organizational documents?
- How do I view my documents using Lexis® Search Advantage?
- How do I view metadata about an organization's document and use it to navigate through the document ?
- How do I complete a search for similar organization documents based on client name, matter, document type, or document author?
- How do I view the Lexis® Search Advantage scorecard?
- How do I view my organization's documents in their native format?
Setting Up Alerts
- How do I create an alert?
- How do I view the results of an alert?
- How do I edit an alert?
- How do I delete an alert?
- How do I update a Shepard's Alert®?
- How do I pause an alert?
- How do I restart an alert?
- How do I find a specific alert?
- How do I share a new alert with other users?
- How do I share an existing alert with other users?
- How do I search in a document found by an alert I created?
- Tutorial: Using Lexis® Alerts
Viewing Your Research History in List or Map Format
- What is the history feature?
- How do I find an item in my history?
- How do I find an item from my previous research?
- How do I save my research?
- What is the Research Map?
- How do I view my research history in a graphic view?
- What is the compare search results feature?
- How do I find documents that are common to the results sets of 2 or more searches?
- What is the find similar documents feature?
- How do I find documents that are similar to documents I select from my results?
- How do I rerun a search?
- Research History Map Page
- What does the Run search as ... option do?
- Tutorial: Viewing Your Search History in the History List View
- Tutorial: Using the Lexis® Research Map
