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Go to www.Pacer.gov Go to Case Search Sign In on the top right side of the screen. Type in your username and password and press the LOGIN button. Scroll down the page and click the bankruptcy court youre working in. Click on the Document Filing System link on the top middle of the page. Along the top of the screen click where it says REPORTS, then click on cases. Set your criteria as follows: A. Office Choose one or more (hold down ctrl to select multiple offices) B. Case Type Choose bk for bankruptcy. C. Chapter Choose Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 D. Date Type Choose dismissed date on the drop down menu. E. Check Boxes Put check marks in all 3 boxes: Open Cases, Closed Cases, Party Information. F. From and To Choose any date within a 30 day time period. (remember date selections for later when you name your file) G. Sort By Choose filed date in the first box drop down menu H. Output Format Choose DATA ONLY (this is a VERY important step!!) I. Verify all criteria is correct and click run report

8. On the transaction receipt page PACER will display how many pages your search criteria produced and the total cost of the report(s). If you agree with the charges click Continue on the left of the screen. 9. A text file will pop up in your Notebook program. Go up to file and click save as under file name type in state abbreviation and district name. Example : TX_Western_Bankruptcy. Then you can add in the date range you searched to your title. 10. After saving your text document open a new worksheet in Microsoft Excel. 11. Loading the text document: In the upper left hand corner go to file > Left click > Scroll down to open Left click. 12. If you cannot locate your text file in My Documents or Desktop click on the drop down menu at the bottom titled Files or Type and scroll down to Text Files and click Open. Your file should appear in the box above. 13. Once your file is located, double click on it. A box titled Text Import Wizard will pop up.

14. Click on the bubble that says Delimited and then click Next 15. On this screen you will see a box checked off titled Tab. You need to un-check this box. Then you need to check off the box below it titled Other in the box next to this there will be a blinking cursor you need to type a line like this | in that box without the parenthesis. (Note: this line is located on your keyboard directly below the Backspace button, hold down Shift and press this key.) 16. You will see that the data in the box below has been separated by lines. Then click the Finish button. 17. Copy column titles onto Line 1 of the spreadsheet. (template available in documents section of training) 18. Delete ALL columns on spreadsheet which do NOT have a column title on them. If words are crossed together you need to widen the cells by clicking and dragging the lettered boxes at top of columns. 19. Scroll to the far right of spreadsheet and click on the top of the column titled Role. Once the Role column is highlighted, click the A|Z icon on the top toolbar. (This will sort the column in alphabetical order.) 20. Delete all rows EXCEPT those which say Debtor, Joint Debtor or Co-Debtor in the Role column. (To delete rows, go to the far left of the spreadsheet and left click on the numbers, and drag mouse down to highlight rows to be deleted. Once the rows are highlighted right click your mouse and click delete and the rows will be erased.) 21. Sort last name alphabetically by highlighting the column and clicking the A|Z icon (same as sorting the Role column-see step #20. 22. Save your spreadsheet with state abbreviation and date. Youre ready to merge it on Click2Mail now.