Redline lawyer documents with native Word tracked changes
A lawyer used Claude for Word on a 30-page document; it rewrote two sections and replied to comments as tracked changes, and he judged it better than Microsoft's offering.
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- What they did
- Stephen Smith installed the Claude for Word add-in and used it in suggested-edits mode on a 30-page document. Claude rewrote two sections and answered a string of comments. For comments, it read each thread, edited the anchored passage as a tracked change, and replied to explain. Smith reviewed the changes in Word's own review pane.
- How it went
- He finished the work in one morning without leaving Word, and every edit arrived as a native tracked revision. He judged it cleaner than Copilot's tracked changes, though he says head-to-head reviews are still emerging.
- Worth knowing
- It's a beta that needs a Claude Team or Enterprise plan. Anthropic warns against untrusted external documents because of prompt injection, and the add-in doesn't yet connect to audit logs.
Try it yourself with Claude
I'm pasting a [type of document, e.g. 30-page services agreement] that I'm reviewing for [your client or side]. Rewrite [sections or clause numbers] to better protect them, and answer each existing comment in the margin with a suggested reply. Show every edit as tracked changes I can accept or reject, and keep the rest of the document untouched. When you're done, summarize what you changed and what you'd still want a human to decide.
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