Preference Sheet

Tell me how you want your transcripts.

Punctuation, paragraphing, numbers, quotes, colloquy — your answers stay on file so every job comes back sounding like yours.

Preference sheet form

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Video depositions
Clean up attorneys when they say ‘Okay’ or ‘All right’ before most sentences in a video depo?
In video depos, keep partial words?
In video depos, keep stutters?
Cleanup & punctuation
Clean up ‘Okay’ / ‘All right’ before sentences in a non-video depo?
Use ellipses?
Polite request — ‘Would you spell that’ / ‘Can you read that for me’
Objection format
Spelling out words
Paragraphing
Paragraphing
Numbers, dates & time
Date format
Punctuation with dates
‘I got home at nine o’clock.’
‘He got home at six.’
Spelling out numbers
Use numerals for ages below 10?
Use numerals for measurements under 10 (e.g. 5 feet, 9 yards)?
Comma in a series
Specifically numbered items
Use a dollar sign ($) when not said but understood?
If someone says ‘fifteen hundred’
When they say ‘5’7"’
Quotes
Direct quotes
Indirect quotes
Quotation marks for thoughts? (e.g. I thought, ‘What in the world is he doing?’)
‘My question is…’
‘Let me ask you this…’
Reading from material
If ‘quote’ and ‘unquote’ are said
Colloquy & by-lines
Tag questions (‘okay?’)
Page / line / paragraph references
Comma before ‘too’
By-line preference after colloquy
If a witness answers after colloquy, use
Possessives & responses
Possessives
Affirmative non-verbal
Negative non-verbal
Parentheticals & notes

Answer what matters to you — anything you leave blank, I’ll handle to standard style.

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