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Informational text, Optional Clauses and Alternative Clauses
Learn how to use GitLaw's advanced contract editing tools to mark up help text, optional clauses, and alternative clauses. Easily navigate and format contracts with simple step-by-step instructions.

GitLaw helps you easily mark and manage different parts of a contract, making navigation more intuitive.

Here's how you can use it:


1. Help Text

Help TextUse this feature to mark up any text that provides guidance or explanations but is not part of the contract itself. To do this:

  • Select the text you want to mark.
  • Choose "Help Text" from the editor panel. You'll see it instantly appear within a help box.
Select the text you wish to mark up and select "Help Text" in the editor panel

2. Optional Clauses

Optional Clauses allow you to identify which sections of the contract can be toggled on or off.

To mark a clause as optional:

  • Select the paragraph you want.
  • Click on the "Clauses" dropdown and choose "Mark as clause."

Select the paragraph, and Click the "Clauses" drop down and select "Mark as clause"



3. Optional and Alternative Clauses

You can combine optional and alternative clauses as needed. To do this:

  • Mark each clause individually.
  • Select the paragraph you wish to modify.
  • In the "Clauses" dropdown, select "Mark as clause."
  • For alternative clauses, select the clauses you want to modify, click "Actions," and then choose "Alternatives."
Select the paragraph, and Click the "Clauses" drop down and select "Mark as clause". Select the clauses you wish to make "alternatives" and select "Actions" then "Alternatives"

4. Formatting the contract for Optional Clauses and Alternative Clauses.

If you have optional or alternative wording drafted as one large paragraph, you'll need to split it into separate paragraphs or bullet points. This ensures GitLaw's Optional/Alternative Clause features work correctly. Adjust the paragraph formatting if necessary to take full advantage of GitLaw's advanced editing tools.

Sometimes you need to change how a paragraph is formatted to fit in with the GitLaw advanced editing features.

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