With Casedo you can import multiple files into your casefile at once.

As of Casedo v1.7.1 files will be imported in alphabetical order. See the bottom of this article for examples of sorted import.

For more information on which file types can be imported into Casedo, take a look at Importing files into Casedo.

How to import files into Casedo using multi-select

1. Click on the ‘Import’ button located in your Desk Space.

 

2. Locate the documents you want to import.

 

3. Select your documents and select ‘Open’. You can multi-select by either clicking on the ‘Command’ button (Mac) on your keyboard, Ctrl on Windows, and selecting documents or by clicking and dragging across your files to select them.

 

 

4. If any of the documents to be imported are PDFs that have bookmarks, a dialog box will appear asking whether you want to include bookmarks in the imported documents, as shown:

 

To import all bookmarks simply turn off the toggle switch as shown below:

 

N.B. When multiple documents are imported, Casedo will only ever ask you once to import them with their bookmarks, and not separately about individual documents.

 

5. Your imported documents will appear in your Desk Space, as shown:

 

6. Now simply drag them into your Index to start building your Casefile.

Examples

Numerical sorting. The following date-named files are sorted numerically.

numerical sorting on import

Alphabetical sorting. The following named files are sorted alphabetically.

alphabetical sorting

Author Jim Hitch

Last Updated on November 27, 2024
First Published on November 26, 2021

With Casedo you can import multiple files into your casefile at once.

As of Casedo v1.7.1 files will be imported in alphabetical order. See the bottom of this article for examples of sorted import.

For more information on which file types can be imported into Casedo, take a look at Importing files into Casedo.

How to import files into Casedo using multi-select

1. Click on the ‘Import’ button located in your Desk Space.

 

2. Locate the documents you want to import.

 

3. Select your documents and select ‘Open’. You can multi-select by either clicking on the ‘Command’ button (Mac) on your keyboard, Ctrl on Windows, and selecting documents or by clicking and dragging across your files to select them.

 

 

4. If any of the documents to be imported are PDFs that have bookmarks, a dialog box will appear asking whether you want to include bookmarks in the imported documents, as shown:

 

To import all bookmarks simply turn off the toggle switch as shown below:

 

N.B. When multiple documents are imported, Casedo will only ever ask you once to import them with their bookmarks, and not separately about individual documents.

 

5. Your imported documents will appear in your Desk Space, as shown:

 

6. Now simply drag them into your Index to start building your Casefile.

Examples

Numerical sorting. The following date-named files are sorted numerically.

numerical sorting on import

Alphabetical sorting. The following named files are sorted alphabetically.

alphabetical sorting

Author Jim Hitch

Last Updated on November 27, 2024
First Published on November 26, 2021

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