What is Accept Agreements?
In tribunal documents, underlined text typically represents agreed wording. The Accept Agreements feature processes this text automatically:
- Underlined text without strikethrough — the text is agreed. Formatting is cleared (underline, bold, italic removed) and the font colour is reset to black, leaving clean plain text.
- Underlined text with strikethrough — the text was proposed but then struck out (rejected). It is deleted from the document entirely.
This saves significant time compared to manually reviewing and cleaning up each paragraph.
WARNING
Accept Agreements is a Pro feature. The button is disabled on a Free licence. Upgrade to Pro on the Pro tab to enable it.
Using Accept Agreements
- Switch to the Pro tab in the task pane.
- Click Accept Agreements.
Working Document Helper scans every paragraph for underlined text and applies the rules described above.
What happens to each text type
| Text formatting | Action taken |
|---|---|
| Underline only | Formatting cleared, font set to plain black text |
| Underline + strikethrough | Text deleted from the document |
| Bold, italic, strikethrough (no underline) | Not affected |
| Plain text | Not affected |
Recommended workflow
For a typical tribunal document:
- Add Colour first — apply colour coding so you can visually review the document and confirm the formatting is correct.
- Review — scroll through the document. Check that underlined text is correctly marked as agreements and that underline + strikethrough text is correctly marked for deletion.
- Accept Agreements — once you are satisfied, run Accept Agreements to process the agreed text.
- Remove Colour — optionally strip the colour coding from the remaining text to produce a clean final document.
TIP
Always review the document before running Accept Agreements. The operation processes based on formatting alone — if text is incorrectly underlined, it will be treated as agreed. If text is incorrectly struck through, it will be deleted.
Undo
If the result is not what you expected, use Word's built-in Ctrl+Z (or Cmd+Z on Mac) to undo the changes. Working Document Helper applies changes as a single batch, so one undo step should revert the operation.
Next steps
- Adding Colour — apply colour coding before reviewing
- Removing Colour — clean up after accepting agreements
- Pro Features — see all Pro capabilities
- Overview — return to the Working Document Helper overview