Creating Categories for Your Table of Authorities

If you are developing a long legal document, a table of authorities can be very valuable. Word allows you to divide a table of authorities into categories. For instance, you may want case citations in a different section of the table than statute citations. Word provides seven different categories you can use: cases, statutes, rules, treatises, regulations, constitutional provisions, and other authorities. If you need more than these pre-defined categories, you can create your own categories. Word allows you to define up to 16 different categories, including the seven already defined. You can define your own categories by following these steps:

1. Press Shift+Alt+I to display the Mark Citation dialog box.
2. Click on the Categories button. (In some versions of Word it may be called the Category button.) Word displays the Edit Category dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. In the Category list, select one of the numbers, 8 through 16. (If you select one of the existing seven categories, you will end up replacing it with your new category.)
4. Edit the text in the Replace With box to reflect how you want the category to appear.
5. Click on Replace. The edited category name now appears in the Category list.
6. Click on OK.

You can now use the new category, as desired, to mark and classify citations.