Legal Research

Westlaw Tabs

By Amy Levine

Westlaw has increased the number of tabs that you can set from 6 to 50! All you have to do is click on the ?Add a Tab? link on the right side of any Westlaw page. The resulting page is the ?My Tabs? page which lists the tabs that have been previously set and gives you the option of removing, setting defaults, or even editing the name of the tab.

There is also the ?Add Westlaw Tabs? and ?Create a Tab? pages which are accessible by clicking on the links to the right of the ?My Tabs? link. The ?Add Westlaw Tabs? page provides a list that you can choose from including general, business, news, jurisdiction, and topic tabs.

You can customize tabs by using the ?Create a Tabs? page. Using the ?Custom and Display Options? menu you can add databases by individually or by collection. You can even email the contents of your tab to another Westlaw user. Just another way to organize your Westlaw research.

Full post as published by Ross-Blakley Law Library Blog on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).