Summarizing PDF Depos

Summarizing PDF depos

Instead of creating a separate document for a deposition summary, try this: summarize a pdf depo with bookmarks.  When you click on the bookmark, you go directly to the place in the deposition that you thought was important testimony.  You can highlight the testimony in the deposition to make it easier to see.

 

To get to the bookmark “pane” i.e., column, go to View in the pdf depo, then Show/Hide, Navigation Panes, Bookmarks.

The bookmark can summarize the key points of the deposition on that page.  Highlight the text (go to View, Comment, Drawings & Markups and click on the highlight icon to drag over the text of the depo.  Add a key word into the bookmark summary to make it even easier to review.  You can put all similar key words together by dragging the bookmarks into position.  This is how it looks:

The Key words are

BACKGROUND

CREDIBILITY

BONUS

$86K

P3

If there is a ~ tilde in the bookmark, the fact is especially important.

Ctrl F searches the pdf depo.

Shft Ctrl F searches the depo AND the bookmarks.