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Contract Tools and Turner both include the following features:

• Navigation and management tools for provisions, defined terms, cross-references, related items, comments, and ancillaries
• Proofreading for common contract drafting problems; ways to see problems in context and ignore problems that don’t bother you
• Automatic updating as you type and delete text
• Defined term autocompletion
• Ways to navigate a document by clicking its text; navigation history (Back and Forward buttons)
• Ways to create cross-references that update automatically
• Ways to easily make formatting in your document consistent
• Enhanced search capabilities

Here are some major differences between Contract Tools and Turner:

• Contract Tools is a Word add-in for Windows PCs. Turner is a standalone app for macOS.
• Contract Tools analyzes the text of your document to find defined terms, cross-references, provisions, and other items. Turner finds these items when you import documents from other file formats, and also offers controls for creating these items.
• You can export Turner documents to a number of formats, including DOCX, PDF, and HTML files suitable for the SEC’s EDGAR system. Also, some things that are time-consuming to create in Word, like an index of defined terms, can be included in exported files with a few clicks. Contract Tools doesn’t change Word’s export capabilities.

Some features of Contract Tools and Turner work with documents in any language, but Contract Tools and Turner are best suited to documents in English.

Contract Tools and Turner send information over the internet to begin a trial, to validate your license activation, and to check for updates. Turner asks whether you want to send diagnostic information over the internet if Turner quits unexpectedly. Contract Tools and Turner never log or share any information about your documents. See our privacy statement to learn more about the information we collect.

Contract Tools works with PDFs that you open in Word, and you can open PDFs in Word 2013 and later. Turner can import PDFs.

No. There are many tools available for detecting text in PDFs that lack text data. Search the internet for “ocr software” to learn more.

No. Contract Tools and Turner are licensed separately.

No. If you have more than one computer, it’s easy to deactivate Contract Tools and Turner on one computer and reactivate on another, and you can deactivate and reactivate as often as you’d like. If you forget to deactivate Contract Tools or Turner on one of your computers, you can easily deactivate on computers that you don’t have access to. As an alternative, you can buy a subscription for each of your computers. If there are many people in your organization who want to use Contract Tools or Turner, email sales@papersoftware.com.

Yes. We offer 3-month pilot deployments to organizations. Email sales@papersoftware.com to learn more. The Contract Tools evaluation agreement is available here, and the Turner evaluation agreement is available here.

Contract Tools and Turner are self-classified under ECCN 5D992.

We offer discounts to groups of students (like clinics, classes, or entire law schools). We don’t offer discounts to individual students. If you’d like to explore using Contract Tools or Turner in an academic environment, email sales@papersoftware.com.

No.

Yes, starting at 5 licenses. Email sales@papersoftware.com to learn more.

Yes. If your document includes formatting, automatic list numbering, and so on, Contract Tools analyzes these items to find information about your document. But Contract Tools can also analyze unformatted text (like text you copy and paste from a PDF).

Yes. When you use Contract Tools and Track Changes together, you can add and delete text, show and hide revisions, and adjust other Track Changes settings just as if you weren’t using Contract Tools. Depending on whether you want Contract Tools to analyze tracked deletions, you may want to adjust Track Changes settings; see Analyzing when Using Track Changes to learn more.

Yes, in two ways. By default, Contract Tools automatically detects the part of your document that you’re most likely to want to analyze, and then saves this information as a hidden bookmark; see Analyzing Part of a Document to learn more. Also, in Word 2010 and later, Contract Tools saves analysis settings with documents as custom XML data; see Saving Analysis Settings to learn more. It’s easy to turn both of these features off.

No.

Yes.

Yes, but there’s a 5-license minimum, and it’s necessary to use Contract Tools License Server for activation. Contract Tools License Server is a lightweight app that’s compatible with practically any Windows PC, and setting it up usually takes only a few minutes. See the Contract Tools Administrator Guide to learn more.

You can use Contract Tools with the version of Word for Windows PCs that’s available with an Office 365 plan. Contract Tools isn’t available for Office mobile apps or Word Online.

No.

No. If you want to use Contract Tools on a Mac, consider using Boot Camp to install Windows on your Mac, and then using Contract Tools with Word for Windows PCs. Or, consider using Turner.

Probably, but it’s not possible to test Contract Tools with all the document management systems and Word add-ins that are available. The best way to answer this question is to get a free trial.

If you use iManage Integration for Office, a solution is available to an issue that can cause Word to temporarily become unresponsive when closing documents while using Contract Tools; see Configuring iManage Software to learn more.

This depends on how your organization administers its computers. If you can’t install Contract Tools on your work computer, your system administrator may be able to install it for you. For example, if your system administrator has configured your computer to allow remote connections, your system administrator can use Remote Desktop Connection to access your computer, and then install Contract Tools by opening PowerShell 4.0 or later as an administrator and entering:

$filename = 'PaperSoftwareContractToolsSetup.exe'
$installerPath = "$([Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop'))\$filename"
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bOR 'Tls12'
Invoke-WebRequest "https://papersoftware.com/$filename" -OutFile $installerPath
if ((Get-FileHash $installerPath).Hash -eq '170936a9f46e8ab649cf45d72eb13c8965c3fab6d5406e586b98352c12750835') {
    Start-Process $installerPath -Wait
}
Remove-Item $installerPath

If an MSI file is preferred, your system administrator can enter:

$filename = 'PaperSoftwareContractTools.msi'
$installerPath = "$([Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop'))\$filename"
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bOR 'Tls12'
Invoke-WebRequest "https://papersoftware.s3.amazonaws.com/$filename" -OutFile $installerPath
if ((Get-FileHash $installerPath).Hash -eq 'dd84cfbf185b521d1429d53f15b154b63c2dd05e50b1f207b8d562011852b71e') {
    Start-Process msiexec "/i `"$installerPath`"" -Wait
}
Remove-Item $installerPath

If your organization uses Chocolatey and allows installing community packages, your system administrator can enter in PowerShell or Command Prompt:

choco install contract-tools

No. Contract Tools is not, and does not contain, adware, malware, spyware, or any other junk by any other name. We take your security very seriously.

• We digitally sign every release of Contract Tools with a DigiCert Extended Validation certificate.
• We submit every release of Contract Tools to major antivirus software vendors for whitelisting.
• We scan every release of Contract Tools at VirusTotal.