A Chart comparing production formats that parties commonly use when producing electronically stored information (ESI) in federal civil litigation. This Chart discusses how production format impacts a responding (producing) party's ability to label and redact the documents and also how it impacts a requesting (receiving) party's ability to view the produced ESI, search the ESI's text, sort or filter the ESI by metadata, and generate hard copies of the ESI for use at depositions, hearings, or trial.