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Using the Home Menu and Home Screen

You click Home in the menu bar to access your Home screen in Checkpoint.

The Home screen provides a central location for reviewing new law alerts, tax news headlines, and the latest scheduled search results. You can see what new features and content have been added to your subscription as well as alerts to important news flashes.

Sometimes Home in the menu bar includes additional words or symbols to alert you to new content. The following table lists the words and symbols associated with the Home menu and Home screen.

New Content Home Menu

The Home menu displays the word "NEW" when new content for your subscription has been added to the Home screen.

If you log in to Checkpoint using a normal login from the login screen, and there are new items in your subscription, Checkpoint automatically takes you to the Home screen, where you see the new content.

Home News Flash Icon

The flash symbol on the Home menu indicates that there are new news flashes available for you to review in the Today's Headlines pane on the Home screen.

Note: You must have the News Flash option on the News screen selected for a specific newsletter or news service to have Checkpoint display News Flash updates on the Home or News screens.

Stop Sign Icon

Whenever you click Home and there are new items to be viewed, Checkpoint includes a stop sign and summary about what is new near the top of the Home screen.

The stop sign image lets you know that you should take a look at the new content. This image appears only if you have been stopped on the Home screen during a normal login because you have new items to review.

Warning Icon

Whenever you manually access the Home screen from another screen, a warning image is displayed instead of the stop sign to alert you to the new content.

News Flash Alert Icon

Note: When you access Checkpoint from an external link (using Speedlink or e-mail), you bypass the Home screen and go directly to the results of the external link—even when there are new items on the Home screen. However, you will always know when you have new content because you will see “New” on the Home menu.

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