Legal documents and official reports require slightly different editing than standard books. This can include legislative documents, official reports, etc.

The “Title Page” heading can be replaced by the name of the particular Legislation or Report, since this is not a standard title as with our other book resources. Simply style the title with Heading 1 style, and any other information from the title/cover page as normal.

For this section all you need to do is change the heading to 'About this digital document'.

For more information please see the About this digital talking book section.

Do not include a 'Terms of Use' section for these documents as they are publicly available.

If you are not sure of their publication status, you can do a quick Google search to see if you can find the title, or contact your Project Coordinator for more information.

Many legal documents and reports come with numbered and lettered lists, and sub-lists. We want to keep the document as close to the original as possible, so it is best to use what is called a blank or hidden list to any sub-lists. This means it will look like it only has normal style, but the underlying code will be have a list applied to the sub-lists, so that users can more easily navigate.

Here is a Tutorial for creating Blank Lists.

First make sure all styles are cleared from the document, then apply normal style. Once you have done this you can create the lists. The process is similar to applying Unordered Lists, but you select the blank bullet character instead of a standard bullet option. You will then note that though the document looks the same, there is now a List Paragraph style in the style pane.

For more info on apply unordered and blank lists please refer to the Lists page.

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