§ 81.18 Form of Typewritten Transcripts and Other Documents
81.18. Form of Typewritten Transcripts and Other Documents
(a) Typewritten documents shall be legible, on paper of size 8 1/2 x 11 inches, securely bound and paged at the bottom.
Documents shall be on bond paper weighing not less than nine pounds to the ream, shall be typed on one side of the paper, shall be double-spaced, and shall have a left margin of not less than one inch.
If a cover is required, the documents shall have a tan cover.
The type used shall be not less than a ten pitch and ten characters to the inch in a fixed space type. If a proportionally spaced type is used, it shall be not smaller than 13 point, Times New Roman font on Microsoft Word.
(b) Typewritten transcripts shall conform to the provisions of Rule 81.18(a) except that:
(1) There shall be no fewer than nine characters to the typed inch;
(2) They shall be securely bound on the left side with either spiral binding or fasteners that extend a full one inch beyond the depth of the volume;
(3) They shall have a left margin of not less than one and one-fourth nor more than one and three-fourth inches;
(4) They shall have a right margin of not more than three-eighths of an inch; and
(5) There shall be no fewer than 25 typed lines per sheet of paper.
Each question and answer must begin no more than five spaces from the left margin, with no more than five spaces from the “Q” and “A” to the text. Carry-over questions and answers shall begin at the left margin.
A volume of transcript shall not exceed 200 sheets of paper.
(c) In lieu of filing a transcript as provided in Rule 81.18(b), a party may file a transcript in page reduction format. Page reduction transcripts shall conform with the provisions of Rule 81.18(b), except that not more than four pages of transcript may appear on each side of each sheet of paper in the page reduction format. The party filing a transcript in page reduction format shall file the full-page transcript with the court if ordered by the court to do so. Further, if a page reduction format transcript is filed, it shall be accompanied by floppy disks containing the transcript. The floppy disk shall be double sided, high density 1.44 MB, 3 1/2 inch size. An adhesive label shall be affixed to each disk legibly identifying the caption of the case, the disk number (e.g., “Disk 1 of 2”), and the word processing format (e.g., Microsoft Word). Word format shall be used if available. If Word is unavailable, the material shall be formatted in WordPerfect 5.x or higher.
(d) Legal files shall conform to the provisions of Rule 81.18(a) except that they shall be securely bound on the top or left side. If fasteners are used to bind the legal file, they shall extend a full one inch beyond the depth of the volume. A volume of the legal file shall not exceed two hundred pages.