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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
• Ways to navigate a document by clicking its text; navigation history (Back and Forward buttons)
• Ways to create cross-references that update automatically as you make changes
• Defined term autocompletion
• Enhanced search capabilities

Here are some major differences between Turner and Contract Tools:

• Turner offers controls for creating defined terms, cross-references, provisions, and other items. Contract Tools analyzes the text of your document to find these items.
• In Turner, you can format your document with a few clicks, and formatting is always consistent. In Contract Tools, formatting inconsistencies are flagged as drafting errors, and they can be fixed using Word’s formatting controls.
• 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 Turner and Contract Tools work with documents in any language, but Turner and Contract Tools are best suited to documents in English.

Turner and Contract Tools both 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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.

No.

Yes, starting at 2.5% for 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 (for example, 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 you have to really be an individual (like a solo practitioner).

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 VMware Fusion, Parallels, or 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.

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 '8e2452d3fa8dd2ffbbd3e1c50f521070eca5c59442a9c77086315f50bed2b1f7') {
    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 $installerPath).Hash -eq '7acfa3f428429f5bed5410200750732d72a3c77e150dfe8cb5d041230506109e') {
    Start-Process msiexec -ArgumentList '/package', "`"$installerPath`"" -Wait
}
Remove-Item $installerPath

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.