8 September 2024

Smart Merge

New feature ClauseBuddy now contains a "Smart Merge" function that allows users to get an intelligent merge of two texts — e.g. a currently selected clause and a a Truffle clause or clause from the Quality Library. With the help of AI, ClauseBuddy will show a list of legal characteristics available in both texts, and then allows the end-user to easily select which features to keep or remove.

The function is shown in every text-insertion popup-menu. It is also available within Deep Compare.

Read the manual for the in-depth documentation.

Re-engineered Deep Compare

Change The Deep Compare functionality, previously introduced in July 2024, has been re-engineered, to integrate the Smart Merge feature and incorporate feedback from our customers.

The new module will now allow you to:

• Get an exhaustive overview of all clauses from the other document that are legally associated with some clause of the target document

• Swap the left-side and right-side document at any time

• Search within both documents to limit the visible text

• Incorporate the central Smart Merge functionality for selected clauses

More information is available in the documentation.

"Please enlarge this panel"

New feature ClauseBuddy now shows a teal panel at the top to invite users to enlarge the width if it's currently too narrow.

Background: unfortunately, MS Word does not remember the width of its plugin-panels, and it is impossible for plugin developers to force the width to a certain size. Accordingly, having this kind of invitation on the screen is the only viable manner to nudge users to make the panel a bit wider.

Smaller font

Both ClauseBuddy and Clause9 now use a base font that is now 1px smaller, aligning it a little bit better with the default font size of dialog text in MS Word.