Put the chronology into a slide deck
A PowerPoint file with an overview of the events, and a slide per event if you want one.
Screenshots are taken from the app on every release. Updated 13 October 2026.
You are preparing for a meeting with the client, a settlement discussion or a mediation, and the chronology has to sit in the deck with the rest of your slides. The export gives you the slides in PowerPoint, built from the events on the timeline.
Two questions decide the settings. Is it the order of events that matters, or the time between them? And will you talk through one overview, or walk the room through each event?
Export the slides
Open the timeline in the Linear or Relative view and click Export in the toolbar. The Table view offers only Excel and Word.
Choose PowerPoint. It stays greyed out until at least one event has a date.
In PowerPoint Export Settings, choose the layout with the tabs at the top. Linear puts the events in order, evenly spaced, so the story reads from left to right. Relative places each event on a time scale, so the reader sees which events came close together and where months passed with nothing happening.
Under Export scope, choose Summary (overview slides) for overview slides only, or Expanded (slide per event) to follow the overview with one slide for each event. The Preview on the right shows which slides you get.
Under Additional slides, tick Include intro slide to open the deck with an intro slide, or Include thank you slide to close it with one. Which of the two you see depends on how your firm's export is set up.
Set up the layout you chose (see the next section).
Under Event details, tick Hide timestamp if the time of day is not in issue. Each event then shows only its date.
Tick the events that belong in this deck. Click a row to tick it, or tick the box at the top of the list to include everything. Download stays greyed out until at least one event is ticked. If the timeline has stories, the arrow beside that box (Select story) ticks the events of one story. Open shows an event without leaving the dialog.
Check the preview and click the Download button, which names the layout you chose. The file is named after the timeline.
Settings for each layout
Linear
- Number of layers: 1 Layer draws one line of events across each overview slide. 2 Layers splits the events over two lines, one above the other.
- Include tags legend in export: Include legend explains the tag colours on the slides, so a reader can tell the issues or parties apart. Choose Exclude legend when the tags are for the team only.
Relative
- Overview alignment: Top or Middle sets where the time scale sits on the overview slide.
- Time granularity: the unit of the time scale, from Hours to Years. Pick the unit the dispute moves in: days for a contract that fell apart over a week, months or years for a long commercial relationship.
- Collapsed date ranges: if you have collapsed quiet periods on the timeline, Keep collapsed leaves them collapsed on the slides and Expand all shows the full stretch of time.
If Juristic says the timeline is too spread out, choose a larger unit under Time granularity. If it still says so at Years, use the Linear layout.
Settings for each audience
| Who it is for | Layout | Export scope | Worth setting |
|---|---|---|---|
| The client, at a strategy meeting | Relative | Summary | Months or Years, and Keep collapsed so long gaps do not take up the slide |
| The other side, in a settlement discussion | Linear | Summary | Only the events you are prepared to put on the table |
| The team or a witness, going through the facts | Linear | Expanded | Include legend, so the tag colours are explained |
Tips from practice
- One deck per audience. Ticking events only decides what goes into this export; the timeline stays as it is. Export again with a different selection for the next meeting.
- Start from a story. Click the tab of the story for the issue on the timeline before you export. The list then holds only that story's events, already ticked.
- Untick the internal events. Events that only matter to your own preparation, such as when you received a document from the client, rarely belong in a deck the other side will see.
For a PDF of the whole chronology, see present the case chronology. For a single slide of one episode, see clip part of the chronology for a memo. To group the events by issue first, see save the events for each issue as a story.