Preference Sheet

Name

Firm/Agency

Phone number

English reference:

Writing numbers (forty-five hundred, percentages, zero-ten/11+, measurements, etc.):

Writing dollar amounts:

After interruption, give example of continuing testimony (BY line) including new Q. after or not:

By Lines after every interruption?

Yes

Time of day:

A.M. / P.M.

a.m. / p.m.

In colloquy, you would like to be referred to as:

THE COURT REPORTER:

COURT REPORTER:

MADAM COURT REPORTER:

Other (please specify in box below).

Oxford commas?

Yes eg. – He had biscuits, tea, and fruit.

No eg. – He had biscuits, tea and fruit.

When numbers are answers/questions and thus are the beginning of a sentence:

Follow grammar rules. eg. – Q. One hundred sixty-seven?

Keep it readable. eg. – A. 167.

Use best discernment.

When dates are spoken as “December fifth, twenty-twenty” vs. “December five, twenty-twenty”:

Write as December 5th, 2020

Write as December 5, 2020

Doesn't matter

When the time is spoken as “five o’clock”:

5 o'clock

5:00

Doesn't matter

Clean up speech?

No eg. – Gotcha/ gonna/ ya'll

Yes eg. – Got you/ going to/ you all

Use your best discernment.

Clean up speech?

No eg. – Uh-huh/Uh-uh

Yes eg. – Mhm/Uh-huh = Yes Uh-uh = No

Spelled out words:

J-A-N-E

J-a-n-e

Objections:

Objection, leading.

Objection. Leading.

Objection; leading.

Preference for marking inaudible:

(inaudible)

Add scanstop ^ inaudible for you to check.

Other. (Please specify in the box below).

Preference for marking items for you to check, (eg. name/company/etc. spellings, unclear words or phrases)

Add scanstop ^ CK for you to check.

Add scanstop ^ name? (etc.) for you to check.

Use hidden text.

Other. (Please specify in the box below).

Other instructions or preference clarification:

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