Analyzing Generally

Contract Tools finds a variety of items when it analyzes your document.

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Provisions, provision numbers, provision titles Working with Provisions
Defined terms Working with Defined Terms
Cross-references Working with Cross-References
Drafting errors Proofreading Documents
To‑dos Finding To‑Dos
Ancillaries Working with Ancillaries
Inline lists, proviso lists Working with Inline Lists and Proviso Lists
Amounts of money, durations, dates, times of day Finding Numbers, Amounts of Money, and Dates and Times

You can use many tools and techniques to work with these items; see Tools and Techniques to learn more.

Contract Tools’ analysis updates automatically as you type and delete text, and you can also update Contract Tools’ analysis manually after you make other kinds of changes; see Updating Analysis to learn more.

You can limit Contract Tools’ analysis to part of a document, which is useful for excluding items like tables of contents and signatures from Contract Tools’ analysis; see Analyzing Part of a Document to learn more.

To customize how Contract Tools analyzes your document, you can adjust analysis settings. To learn about analysis settings for defined terms, see Finding Defined Terms; to learn about analysis settings for drafting errors, see Checking for Drafting Errors. Analysis settings are saved with your document; see Saving Analysis Settings to learn more.

You can adjust Track Changes settings to make Contract Tools’ analysis include or exclude tracked deletions; see Analyzing When Using Track Changes to learn more.

By default, Contract Tools does not analyze content within tables. To learn how to make Contract Tools analyze content within tables, see Analyzing Tables.

To troubleshoot problems with analysis, see Analyzing a Document Converted from a PDF Takes a Long Time and Contract Tools Won’t Find Content.