Beginners bundle guide

This simple to follow guide will take you through the steps needed to create bundles on the EIN website. Bundles enable you to store selected content and you can then turn that content into fully paginated and indexed Microsoft Word documents via a special add-in - you will need to download and install the add-in available here before working through this guide.

[Note: you can also watch a short video guide to creating a bundle here]

Overview

The 'Content Bundles' box appears on the right-hand side of a page on EIN (it appears whenever you are viewing case law, country reports, legislation and resources). At the top of this box is the toolbar. A full list of the toolbar commands is below:

 NEW BUNDLE - click to go to the page where you create a new bundle

 EDIT CURRENT BUNDLE - click to go to the page where you can edit and rearrange the items in your bundle

 EXPORT BUNDLE - click to export the items in your content bundle to a single webpage

 DELETE BUNDLE - click this to delete your current bundle

 EXCERPT MODE - this switches excerpt mode on and off (when 'on', you can select and add excerpts to a content bundle)

Step 1: Create a content bundle

The first thing you need to do is create a content bundle so you can add content to it. To do this, simply click the NEW BUNDLE toolbar button:

This takes you to the 'Create Content Bundle' page. Simply enter a title for the bundle and click 'Save':

You will return to the page you were previously viewing and your new bundle will be available to add content to.

You can create multiple content bundles (as many as you need) and they remain saved on the EIN server. So your bundles are always available and can be accessed whenever and wherever you log on to EIN.

[Note: you can easily switch between bundles and the guide available here covers this topic]

Step 2: Add items to a content bundle

Now you have a content bundle created, you need to add items to it.

To add items to a bundle, you simply click the 'ADD TO BUNDLE' link that you see at the top of a page when viewing case law, country reports, legislation and resources.

When you click the link, the item will appear in your 'Content Bundles' box (and note that this item is a link to the original item so content bundles allow you to very quickly and easily revisit items that you have chosen):

Note that 'ADD TO BUNDLE' changes to 'REMOVE FROM BUNDLE' so you can easily remove items that you add (you can also click the icon next to the item in the Content Bundles box to remove an item).

You simply repeat adding items until all of the required items are in your content bundle. When you have finished adding items, you can then export your bundle.

Step 3: Export your content bundle

Exporting your content bundle turns it from a collection of links into a single webpage containing the entire content of all of the items in your bundle.

To export your content bundle, you simply click the EXPORT BUNDLE toolbar button:

A new window will open with a page containing the full text of all of your bundle items:

You can now turn this page into a fully indexed and paginated Microsoft Word document.

Step 4: Copy your bundle webpage and paste to Microsoft Word

The next step is a simple as it sounds. Simply select and copy the exported content bundle webpage and then paste to a new Word document.

[Note: always make sure the exported content bundle webpage is fully loaded before copying - a large bundle may take a few seconds to finish loading]

You can copy a webpage using then 'Edit' menu to first 'Select All' and then 'Copy', or you can do Ctrl+A to select and then Ctrl+C keys to copy, or you can use the menu that is displayed by right-clicking your mouse.

[Note: some browsers may struggle and 'hang' when selecting and copying a large webpage - you can use the workaround suggested here to avoid this]

Step 5: Paste to Microsoft Word

Having copied your exported content bundle webpage, you then simply paste it to a new Microsoft Word document:

[Note: if you find Word struggles and 'hangs' when pasting a large webpage, you can use the workaround suggested here to avoid this]

Step 6 [optional]: Highlight key passages and add your own content

As you are working in Microsoft Word, you now have full flexibility to add your own content, and you can highlight key passages within your bundle to create your required schedule of essential reading. The guides available here cover all of these options.

Step 7: Run the Bundle-Maker

Click 'Bundle-Maker' on your Microsoft Word menu bar and click 'Create/Undo Bundle...':

When the 'Bundle-Maker' is displayed, click the 'Create Bundle!' button:

The Bundle-Maker automatically creates your bundle in seconds - giving you a fully paginated and indexed bundle!

Workaround method if your browser and/or Word 'hangs' when copying and pasting

You may find that a very large bundle causes either the webpage to hang when you try selecting and copying and/or Microsoft Word to hang when pasting. We have found that the following workarounds will solve this problem:

1) Save your exported content bundle webpage and open it through Word: Export your content bundle as normal, but rather than selecting and copying, simply save the webpage as a html file [see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Save-a-webpage-as-a-file for Internet Explorer instructions on doing this]. To preserve formatting, save your webpage as 'Web Page, complete (*.htm, *.html)' or 'Web archive, single file (*.mht)'.

Go to Word and now browse to the location of the saved webpage and open it. Make sure you are selecting to open 'All Word Documents' (so Word can see html/mht files). Open the html file and now select 'Save As...' and save it as a Word document. You should find that Word does a near perfect job of turning the saved webpage into a Word document.

You can now create your bundle as normal in Word.

2) Try a different browser: If you use Internet Explorer, you may find that Firefox and Google Chrome do not hang when selecting and copying a large webpage. We have found that Firefox avoids the hanging experienced in Internet Explorer when selecting and copying. However, we have found that the formatting of the bundle webpage is maintained better if you paste to Word from Internet Explorer. The method outlined above of saving your content bundle as a webpage and opening via Word also works with Firefox to preserve formatting better than copying and pasting. Google Chrome does a good job of maintaing formatting.