Getting Started
Getting started with AllDrafts, legal document editing tools with automatic formatting, a massive clause library, smart redaction, and insanely easy templates.
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Getting started with AllDrafts, legal document editing tools with automatic formatting, a massive clause library, smart redaction, and insanely easy templates.
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AllDrafts accelerates your legal drafting and helps reduce errors by making it easier to edit and review contracts, pleadings, motion, and more.
You can use AllDrafts completely in the cloud, and generate clean PDF and Word documents from there. Or you can use the AllDrafts Add-in for Microsoft Word to get assistance inside existing documents.
Every starts from the Home tab in the the AllDrafts Add-in.
Start here to create a new legal document from a clean base a great stylesheet. This button opens a new window where you can browse available templates; choose Open in Word Online or Open in Word Desktop as you prefer to download and open the template as a new document.
The tools on this tab help manage styles in your document to speed editing and reduce errors.
These buttons let you toggle the ToDo character style on and off for all the text in [square brackets]. Highligh to-dos applies the ToDo character style (a purple tinted background) to all the bracketed text. This is helps you see optional text, unresolved choices, and other 'fix before we're done' notations in your document. Clear highlights will remove all the ToDo character styles.
You can use the "AllDrafts Team Instruction" style to put a blue border around notes to draft and instructions on template use. (This style is used for instructions in AllDrafts premium templates as well.) The Show instructions and Hide instructions buttons quickly toggle the visibility of these styled paragraphs without deleting them. When you're ready to deliver a final document, or no longer need the drafting notes, you can use Delete instructions from the drop-down arrow on Hide instructions to completely remove all the instruction paragraphs.
Use AI to draft contract outlines or a specific clause, or (coming soon) run a smart search through your clause database for your own language. The drop-down prompt selector is a convenient way to start your prompt, which you can complete to address your specific needs.
AllDrafts uses well-known industry standard AI models with appropriate privacy policies, but enhances them by redacting facts and personal information in your document before sending context to the AI models, and then re-inserting those facts and personal information into the content returned from AI. AllDrafts is also using its knowledge of legal document structure to both inform the context for AI prompts as well as to structure and format the results.
AllDrafts can scan and index your legal document for defined terms and facts and personal information. This info is updated frequently, but you can also use the two-arrows-circle icon to force a refresh of the analysis.
From the list of defined terms you can see how many times a term was used, be warned of duplicate or missing definitions, jump directly to a definition (with the arrow icon on the right), or perform a smart renaming of a defined term with a redline preview of every change before it's done.
Use the three-dots icon to see the options for a defined term:
Apply style... Will color every instance of the defined term in the document.
Remove style... Will remove the coloring and character style from all instances of this defined term.
Create bookmark will create a Word bookmark for the definitoon of the defined term and turn every instance of the term into a cross-reference back to the definition.
Remove bookmark cleans up and removes the bookmarks and cross-references for this term.
Rename... lets you rename the defined term using a smart search that distinguishes references to a defined term from overlapping instances of that word, and lets you preview (and even reject) all the changes in one view.
A quick summary of the dates, names, money amounts, etc. in your document. This is a helpful list for review as well as navigation, and the Change fact... option on the drop-down menu lets you do a smart replacement or reformatting of a fact — for example changing a number from digits-only to words and digits, or updating a words-and-digits money amount correctly from one number.
Get a quick overview of your document with both simple stats (number of words, sentences, etc.) as well as AllDrafts' unique scores for archaism, legalese, Latinisms, and complexity.
Either way, a template is often a great starting point. AllDrafts has a you can use as the basis for a new document. Or use the powerful React facts / PII tool (on the Tools menu in the ) to turn any existing document into a smart .
