Correct a Cell in Tabular Review and Revert to Vincent's Answer

Summary

Learn how to correct a cell in a table in Tabular Review, trace any answer back to the passage it came from, and revert a correction with one click.

Why This is Important

Review is a sequence of judgements made against the text. When a cell holds an answer that is wrong or incomplete, the alternative to correcting it in place has been to export the table to a spreadsheet and do the substantive work there, which is the point at which the citations and the document viewer are left behind.

Correcting the cell where it sits keeps the review, the evidence, and the record of what was changed in the same place.

How to Trace an Answer to Its Source

1. Click the cell's citation.

2. The passage the answer came from opens for you to read.

3. Follow it through to see that passage highlighted in the source document.

How to Correct a Cell

1. Click into the cell and enter the correct value.

2. The cell is marked to show it was edited by a person, and is visually distinct from an answer Vincent produced.

3. Vincent's original answer remains available to view.

What Happens When You Change a Column's Format

Changing a column's format, from text to a true-or-false answer, for example, causes Vincent to re-assess the documents and update the cells in that column. This takes a moment to run.

Best Practices & Pro Tips

Open the citation before you correct the cell. An answer that looks wrong is sometimes a correct reading of a clause elsewhere in the document. The citation settles it in a few seconds, and a correction made without checking is a judgement recorded against the wrong evidence.

Let corrections stand as the record. Because a corrected cell stays visibly distinct from Vincent's answer and the original remains retrievable, the table itself shows what a reviewer changed and why the value differs from the extraction. That record is worth more to a firm than a clean-looking table.