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Frequently Asked Questions

How are Turner and Contract Tools similar?

Turner and Contract Tools 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

How are Turner and Contract Tools different?

Here are some major differences between Turner and Contract Tools:

  • Turner, as a standalone document editor, offers controls for creating defined terms, cross-references, provisions, and other items. Contract Tools analyzes the text of your document to find 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.

Do Turner and Contract Tools work with non–English language documents?

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

Do Turner and Contract Tools send information over the internet?

Turner and Contract Tools 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. Turner and Contract Tools never log or share any information about your documents. See our privacy statement to learn more about the information we collect.

Do Turner and Contract Tools work with PDFs?

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

Do Turner and Contract Tools detect text (using OCR) in PDFs that lack text data?

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

Can I use an activation key to activate Turner or Contract Tools on more than one computer at a time?

No. If you have more than one computer, it’s easy to deactivate Turner and Contract Tools on one computer and reactivate on another, and you can deactivate and reactivate as often as you’d like. If you forget to deactivate Turner or Contract Tools 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 Turner or Contract Tools, email sales@papersoftware.com.

Can I and my colleagues try Turner and Contract Tools at our organization?

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.

Do Turner and Contract Tools have Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs)?

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

Do you offer discounts to students?

We offer discounts to groups of students (for example: a clinic, a class, or an entire law school). We don’t offer discounts to individual students. If you’d like to explore using Turner or Contract Tools in an academic environment, email sales@papersoftware.com.

Do you offer discounts to solo practitioners?

No.

Do you offer volume discounts?

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

Does Contract Tools work with Word documents that don’t use formatting, automatic list numbering, and similar Word features?

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 (for example, text you copy and paste from a PDF).

Can I use Contract Tools while using Track Changes?

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.

Does Contract Tools change Word documents?

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.

Do changes that Contract Tools makes to Word documents appear in comparisons (like redlines and blacklines)?

No.

Do changes that I make to Word documents while using Contract Tools appear in comparisons?

Yes.

Can I use Contract Tools on a virtual machine?

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.

Does Contract Tools work with Office 365?

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.

Is Contract Tools compatible with WordPerfect?

No.

Is Contract Tools compatible with Word for Mac?

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.

Does Contract Tools work with my document management system and my other Word add-ins?

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.

A solution is available to an issue that can cause Word to temporarily become unresponsive when closing documents while using iManage Integration for Office; see Configuring iManage Software to learn more.

Can I install Contract Tools on a computer I use at work?

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:

$installerPath = [IO.Path]::Combine([Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop'), 'PaperSoftwareContractToolsSetup.exe')
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bOR [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
Invoke-WebRequest 'https://papersoftware.com/PaperSoftwareContractToolsSetup.exe' -OutFile $installerPath
if ((Get-FileHash $installerPath).Hash -eq '9a139e6e727625d18f43d18f5846e34d677b1583f91ce7fae45b4e08a8ab7686') {
    Start-Process $installerPath -Wait
}
Remove-Item $installerPath

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

$installerPath = [IO.Path]::Combine([Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop'), 'PaperSoftwareContractTools.msi')
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bOR [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
Invoke-WebRequest 'https://papersoftware.s3.amazonaws.com/PaperSoftwareContractTools.msi' -OutFile $installerPath
if ((Get-FileHash $installerPath).Hash -eq '4503718e0e7452f7b948af7338c06a6a14329690d85b2f659b115cfc1a8b69f3') {
    Start-Process msiexec -ArgumentList '/package', "`"$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

Is Contract Tools malware?

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.

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