Inserting clauses

Once you have found a clause, you can insert it into your Word document (i.e. the left side of your Word window), by clicking on the + button.

Tweaking a clause before insertion

When you click on the big plus-icon (+) in the left corner of a clause, a dialog box appears where you can configure this clause's content and appearance.

After inserting, a new menu will appear, giving you the option to change the levels of the clause as well as the option of including the clause title or not.

Filling placeholders

ClauseBuddy allows you to fill placeholders — i.e. text marked as yellow in ClauseBuddy's editor — right from within ClauseBuddy, before you insert the clause into your MS Word document. Simply click on the relevant placeholder, and fill in the value you want.

Formatting

ClauseBuddy allows you to easily store clauses together with their internal structure — title, headings, subheadings and bullets — and can ensure that such internal structure is respected when clauses are pasted into an MS Word document.

ClauseBuddy incorporates "layout-awareness", which means that ClauseBuddy will do a lot of complex calculations under-the-hood to figure out the styling of your currently opened Word-document, and tries to make your clause fit in there, without you having to do anything.

Tips

• When you insert your clause, you may see your screen quickly flash and restructure the text at the left side. The reason is that ClauseBuddy inserts an initially numbered clause, and subsequently tries to fit the numbering and styling to the surrounding clauses. Thanks to this two-step process, you can always try to hit undo (Ctrl-Z) once in MS Word to check whether you actually want to keep the initially inserted version. Hit undo again to remove the clause alltogether.