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The colour key

Working Document Helper reads the formatting applied to text in your document and maps it to colours following the standard tribunal convention. The mapping is displayed as a table on the Colour tab.

Highlighting (additions)

These formatting types receive a background highlight:

FormattingTribunal meaningDefault highlight
BoldYP (young person) amendmentsYellow
ItalicLA (local authority) amendmentsBlue

Font colour (deletions and agreements)

These formatting types receive a font colour change:

FormattingTribunal meaningDefault colour
UnderlineAgreementsGreen
Bold strikethroughYP deletionsRed
Italic strikethroughLA deletionsRed

Combined formatting

When text has both a highlight-triggering format and strikethrough, both are applied:

  • Bold + strikethrough → yellow highlight and red font colour
  • Italic + strikethrough → blue highlight and red font colour
  • Strikethrough only (no bold or italic) → red highlight and black font colour

Priority rules

Formatting is applied in priority order. If text has multiple formats, the highest-priority rule wins:

  1. Underline (agreements) — highest priority. If text is underlined, it receives green font colour and all other formatting rules are skipped.
  2. Strikethrough combinations — bold+strike, italic+strike, or strike-only.
  3. Bold only — yellow highlight.
  4. Italic only — blue highlight.

Plain text (no bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough) is left unchanged.

Customising colours

Each colour in the key is editable. On the Colour tab, click the colour swatch next to any formatting type to open a colour picker.

Changes take effect on the next Add Colour operation. Previously applied colours are not retroactively updated — run Remove Colour followed by Add Colour to re-apply with new colours.

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