Welcome to the Chronolator Online workbench

The Online Workbench is used to create new Internal Chronology and Composite Chronology documents. It contains the bare minimum of information you need to complete those tasks.

For complete information, please refer to the Setting Up Chronolator Documents manual in the Documentation folder.

The Online Workbench Toolbar

You create new Chronolator Documents using the buttons on the Online Workbench toolbar.

In Word 2007 and later versions, the toolbar appears on the Ribbon’s Add-Ins tab. Here is what it looks like in Word 2013.
In Word 2003 and earlier versions, the toolbar is added underneath your other toolbars.

If the toolbar does not appear, see The Chronolator toolbar does not appear in the Setting Up Chronolator Documents manual.

Creating a new Internal Chronology Document

Before you start

Before you create a new Internal Chronology, you should spend some time to decide a few things, such as:

What column headings you want to appear in the table;

Which columns must always be completed, and which can be left blank;

How much information you want to use to identify each event in the chronology. Do you just want the date on which it happened, or also the time, and possibly the date and time it finished?

When you know what you want

Press the New Internal Chronology button on the Online Workbench toolbar to open the “Case Details Wizard”;

Complete the information on each of the Wizard’s tabs;

Review the Wizard’s Summary tab and make any changes;

When you are happy with what is shown on the Summary tab, press the Wizard’s Finish button to save the Internal Chronology.

Some email systems will not transmit files in the default .docm file format. To avoid this problem, you can save a document in .doc format by choosing Word 97-2003 document(*.doc) in Word's Save As dialog:

Important Note

If you spot something in the new chronology which is not to your liking (for example, a typo in one of the headings), you must create another one using the Wizard rather than changing it in place – one of the first checks chronology makes is that no-one has changed the criteria and headings you have defined. To save you ‘reinventing the wheel’, you can use the definitions in the erroneous document as the basis for the new one by specifying it on the Model tab of the Wizard.

Creating a new Composite Chronology document

Press the New Composite Chronology button on the Online Workbench toolbar to create a blank Composite Chronology. Save it where you like when prompted.

The process of assembling a Composite Chronology from other Chronolator Documents is described in the Using Chronolator Documents manual in the Documentation folder.