# Getting started

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### Open a DOCX-file

Bracketeer works with any DOCX file that you can open in Microsoft Word, and which has either square brackets or colored highlights.
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### Open ClauseBuddy and start Bracketeer

Open ClauseBuddy and click on the Bracketeer icon. (If it's not enabled, ask your administrator or ClauseBase customer onboarding contact person.)
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### Wait for analysis

Wait for a few seconds while ClauseBuddy's server analyses your documents, and uploads each paragraph into Bracketeer.
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### Interact with a set of paragraphs

In each set of paragraphs that has options, alternatives or highlighted text:

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Interact with options (surrounded by dotted lines), **clicking on options** **to select** **them**, or **Alt-clicking** **to remove them** (i.e. click with your mouse while holding down the Alt-key on your keyboard).
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**Click on one of the** **alternatives in a group** to **select that alternative**, automatically removing the other alternatives in the group.
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**Click on highlighted text to change that text**. Bracketeer remembers your last changes, so you can quickly make similar changes across the document.&#x20;
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Click on the **Apply changes** buttonto modify the corresponding paragraph in your document. Alternatively, you can skip this step, and apply all your changes in bulk (see the last step).
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### Navigate to next paragraph

Go the next relevant paragraph by clicking on the *Previous* or *Next* button. Bracketeer will then jump to the next set of paragraphs that has options, alternatives or highlighted text.

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### Apply changes in bulk if desired

Instead of applying changes on a per-paragraph basis, you can click on the triangle (popup menu) next to *Apply Changes* and choose either *Apply to entire document* (= apply changes in bulk in your current document) or *Apply to a new document* (= apply changes in bulk within a copy of your current document).
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While modifying the paragraphs inside of Bracketeer, you must refrain from making edits to the corresponding paragraphs in the DOCX-file. Edits to other paragraphs are fine, but unpredicted results will happen when Bracketeer will apply its own changes on top of your modifications in the DOCX-file.
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