How Do I Add Highlights in Cleardox?

With Legal Binder, you can highlight relevant passages in your legal bundle or document collection. You can also invite the opposing party to add side markings and comments directly within the project.

You can also choose different colors for your side markings and invite the opposing party to collaborate in Cleardox, allowing them to add their own markings and comments to the material.

Learn more in our guide: Collaborate with Opposing Party

Getting Started with Side Markings

Upload your documents and select Legal Binder from the menu at the top of the screen.

Automatic Highlights

Highlight the relevant text to automatically place a side marking in the margin.

If you're using a book layout, the position of the markings will automatically adjust between the right and left margins to accommodate double-sided printing.

Learn more: Prepare Your Legal Bundle or Document Collection for Book Layout.

Manual Highlights

Select the manual marking tool when you want to control the placement yourself, for example when working with tables, images, or text columns. Cleardox ensures that the marking remains vertical.

A dotted alignment guide makes it easier to position manual side markings consistently.

Choose Your Line Style and Color

You can choose between three different line styles in the menu on the left.

Using different colors can make it easier to distinguish between your own side markings and those added by the opposing party while working on the documents.

You can select the line color under Layout and Design. The selected color applies to future side markings and does not change markings that have already been added.

Read our guide: How to Change the Color of Your Side Markings.

Get an Overview of Your Highlights

Use the overview on the right to review your markings as you work and before downloading the finished material.

This is particularly useful when working with larger document collections where highlights are spread across many pages. When multiple parties collaborate on the same project, the overview can also help facilitate a joint review of the material.

Apply Consistent Line Colors When Downloading

When your documents are ready, you can choose to standardize the colors of your side markings during download. This allows you to work with different colors during preparation while ensuring a consistent appearance in the final PDF.

For example, this can be useful when you and the opposing party have used different colors to distinguish your markings during the preparation process but want all markings to appear in the same color in the final legal bundle or document collection.