Nextpoint Lab

Powerful and persuasive documents are our clients’ keys to telling their story. However, business and legal documents can be longwinded and complicated. Visual aids like document treatments can help to highlight the important paragraphs and ideas. The Theater component of Nextpoint was built to address this issue. Here are some tips, tricks and shortcuts to using Theater effectively.

Basics
Click on the Theater link at the top left of Nextpoint to Launch the presentation window. To call up a document type the Bates number (ex: C00013) or exhibit number (ex: D-2 or P-30) into the gray box in the top left corner. The page will appear. Use your mouse to click and draw a box around the section you would like to emphasize; Theater will automatically call this box out. You can make several call out boxes, just continue drawing boxes around the text you’d like to call out on the original document image. (You can click on the document to bring it to the front if your first callout covers the text you want.) Use your mouse again to draw a box around any word or phrase of particular importance; Theater will turn a box made inside the callout box into highlights.

A Few Annotation Shortcuts (to be used once you have a called out section)
Underline – Hold the “Shift” key while you use your mouse to draw a red underline.
Whiteout box – Hold the “W” key while you use your mouse to create a whiteout box.

Document Tricks
Go to the following page – Press “n” & “>” (no need to use shift)
Go to the proceeding page – Press “p” & “<” (no need to use shift)
Undo a callout/highlight – Press “z” or “u”
Redo a callout/highlight – Press “y”
Clear all callouts – Press “c”
Reveal all callouts – Press “r”
Close the document – Press “Esc”

Saving and Using Saved Doc Treatments
Theater allows you to pre-create document treatments and either download them for use or reuse them later. Once there are saved doc treatments for a particular document, a notice will appear next to the “?” button that says “(_ saved treatments)”. Here are the keystroke shortcuts:
To save your doc treatment for reuse in Theater – Press “s”
To view a saved treatment in Theater – Press the number of the saved treatment (ex: “1″ or “2″)
To download a callout – Press “d” and select the callout you would like to download. A window will pop up asking whether you want to open or save. If you choose to save, the image will download directly to your desktop. From there you can import it into PowerPoint or wherever you may want to use it.

It’s a lot to remember, but don’t fret; if you forget these commands there is a cheat sheet available right in Theater. The “?” button provides you a list of keystroke shortcuts. Happy Highlighting!