Legal teams need to step up their document formatting game. Every doc or template I receive is rife with bad formatting. Repeated newlines for page break, repeated tabs/spaces instead of tab stops, underscores for form fields, not defining header/body styles, etc. We solved this stuff decades ago - ThreadSky

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dansalva.to • 44 days ago

Legal teams need to step up their document formatting game. Every doc or template I receive is rife with bad formatting. Repeated newlines for page break, repeated tabs/spaces instead of tab stops, underscores for form fields, not defining header/body styles, etc. We solved this stuff decades ago

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midoaria.bsky.social•43 days ago

If we're talking Word documents, I can kinda relate. Though the difference is that I'm a beginner in this type of thing.

I had to make a "professional" report for a project in my uni and formatting was a critical point that I was tasked with. Sections breaks and separating headers were (cont..)

midoaria.bsky.social•43 days ago

the most tedious to deal with, since I was limited with 5 sections maximum while somehow having each header within a section be different. Problem sounds simple to solve but it took me quite a while to find a workaround this since I had a short deadline.

aniikam6.bsky.social•44 days ago

Do you think AI will solve this problem within the next 3-5 years? Just run every document through a model to make sure it’s up to standard.

dansalva.to•44 days ago

The errors are a set of known patterns, meaning a hard-coded formatting suggester/validator would be a lot more accurate and efficient than handing it over to a machine learning model. "AI" is imperfect by design and can streamline using a tool, but it cannot replace learning how the tool works.

lia-wings.bsky.social•44 days ago

Casual question from someone who doesn't format documents for a living: what are you supposed to use instead of underscores?

dansalva.to•44 days ago

I looked it up recently myself and it seems the best method is to use a table, styled to not draw edges except for the bottom edge on the form fields. It enables uniformity and is easy to edit, plus I would imagine it's great when converting to PDF because the form field has obvious defined bounds.

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