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Nada Alnajafi 
Nada Alnajafi
Award Winning In-House Counsel | Founder of Contract Nerds ๐ ๐ค | Author of Contract Redlining Etiquette | Keynote Speaker & In-House Trainer
Published Jun 29, 2022
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Redlining can be frustrating when you're not sure how to use MS Word's Track Changes features. My name is Nada Alnajafi. I'm a seasoned in-house attorney who loves working with contracts and talking about redlines. Pretty nerdy, right? ๐๐ค
Well I'm here to share some redlining tips, tricks, and workarounds with you so that you can stop getting distracted by redlining frustrations and start getting more focused on the heart of the negotiation!
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Let's begin with formatting changes.
Ah yes, formatting. The bane of many contracts professionals' existence.
Underlines. Bolds. Italics. Spacing. Indentations. And the list goes on...
Pages that are already filled with redlines and comments in the margins don't always need to be filled with flags describing words that were underlined.
Sure, it's nice that MS Word Track Changes allows us the ability to track formatting changes.We just don't want to see them all the time.
So how can we still keep track of Formatting changes in the background without seeing them in our main view? Here's how to Hide Formatting Changes using MS Word Track Changes.
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โ STEPS:
1. Go to the Show Markup menu and click on the drop down arrow.
2. Check "Comments."
3. Check "Insertions and Deletions."
4. Uncheck "Formatting."
๐ REDLINING TIP:
As contracts professionals, we deserve an opportunity to review and respond to all changes made to a contract by another party. That's why it is important to keep track of Formatting changes. Plus, some of them may impact the meaning or interpretation of a clause. Others may impact the way the contract is organized. Keep track of Formatting changes and hide them when they start to bug you. But don't ever stop tracking them.
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Korinna Poblete
Certified Contract Management Advanced Practitioner | Civil Engineer | Mum
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Thanks for the tip! Iโve also subscribed to your newsletter ๐
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Anders Almgren
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Love this! Makes it so much easier to read. Thank you Nada Alnajafi!
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Jacob Kojfman
Business person with a law degree guiding organizations through their digital transformations; volunteer; Obi1Jacobi on #Peloton; great at doing stuff
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One of my biggest pet peeves is when the other side sends back a contract and leaves in the formatting changes (the exception being when a list item is deleted). It makes the document so much messier to read!
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The ends and outs of contracts are actually incredibly sexy, not just nerdy! Iโve been a contractor for 20 years and itโs just incredible the things that people do or donโt include, what contractors versus homeowners assume is known or standard practice, and so onโฆ It is such a vast area of understanding! And even when contracts are absolutely crystal clear, itโs incredible what some people will do to try to get a court to undo or change the things that were agreed to via the contract.
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