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In the document management and collaboration process, redlining refers to marking
text that has been edited. Typically, redlining is used when two or more people are
working on a document together; each individual can redline the text that was added
or edited. The red lined text will then appear in a special color (or as bold) so that
others can see the changes that have been made.
The traditional redlining process typically takes two files as input, compares them to
find the largest and nearest blocks of common text, and showing the rest as either
added or deleted. The process works best for documents that are similar, for
instance, versions of the same contract or offer. The output is a third file, with the
added and deleted text highlighted per user’s request in a format. Typically, the
added text might be shown bold, double-underline, surrounded by square brackets;
Document redlining is necessary when you are reviewing or negotiating with
someone on a document, or when you are editing a document with markup for the
counter party to allow them to see where you have made changes. Other times, you
can use it when reviewing and editing the writings of your colleagues to whom you
have delegated tasks such as drafting reports, meeting minutes, project plans and
other documents for review. By using the redlining and track changes, you can easily
see the changes and save time by not having to review the entire document again.
The Challenges With Traditional Ways Of Doing Document Change Tracking:
Difficult To Read: As the number of changes in the document grows, it becomes
difficult to read the document and makes it harder to find spelling errors or spacing
problems.
Leftover Document Metadata: Track changes and document comparison often leave
behind a trail of metadata that could contain sensitive information. Hence all
metadata must be removed before sending the document across. This requires
additional steps and slows down the process.
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Forgetting To Turn On Track Changes: People who are unfamiliar with the track
changes function often forget to turn it on and hence any subsequent changes will
not be tracked. This makes it harder for the next stage of review, forcing you to read
the entire document to see what has changed.
Loss of Formatting: Accepting changes can cause loss of many types of formatting
and may require significant effort to remediate these. Renumbering the document
after track changes are accepted can be quite a difficult task. Many times,
conversion from Word to any other systems break any special formatting (footnotes,
special numbering schemes, etc.)
Desktop Only: Redline does not always appear on all devices. As a result, you need
to wait until you are in front of your computer to see the documents and track
changes.
Best Practices for Document Redlining
For transactional document redlining (read proposals, contracts, agreements), it is
Try to understand the human element of the document negotiation process and
You have to understand that in the end, it is your job and accountability to ensure
that you don’t sign (or make your executives sign) on the dotted line unless you are
completely sure that the document contains exactly the language you intended to
sign on.
Set your priorities correctly. Most often we find that the following order of priorities
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Compliance first: Use the set of processes and tools that help you ensure that
documents meet compliance criteria. Automated tracking of clauses and deviation
Confidence: You must be confident about the full visibility and tractability of all of
variances.
lined copy, clean copy and editable copy, so that they don’t have to repeat the
If you must use MS Word and email or any other software that does not allow
Turn on track changes but edit the document without showing markups. This way
you can catch spelling or spacing issues and read the document much easier.
If you are sending a document via email, you want to ensure the recipient doesn’t
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Ensure that you or someone on your team scrubs and cleans the document
Don’t forget to send the counterparty both a redline and a clean editable version of
Why DocuCollab Is The Best Solution For Document Review And Redlining?
Top reasons why you should consider using DocuCollab, the best contract
1. Redlining at any time and on any device: DocuCollab has certain contract
management software features that allow you and your counterparty to access and
open the document for viewing and editing the documents with full redlining
capability. You don’t have to wait until you get to a computer. You can review and
2. No need to have three windows open: DocuCollab’s innovative approach
3. Connected multiparty real-time redlining: There is no need to send documents
and wait for another version to come back from your counterparty. All edits from
internal or external parties can be seen as soon as they are made by any party.
4. Easy one-click toggle from “What happened” mode to “Who did what” mode.
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reviewer’s edits are assigned a unique color) to “What happened in the document”
(where all inserts are assigned a blue color and all deletes are assigned a red color).
5. One-click view into “Show me all changes since …”. DocuCollab offers a
seamless view of tracking changes since any of the previous document milestones,
thereby eliminating the need to have multiple redlines for future references.
6. No need to ask IT to install any software on your computer. All you need is a
7. Get alerts. Be notified as soon as edits are made in a document by your
8. Support for offline editing and redlining. DocuCollab, the contract automation
software allows you the flexibility to continue editing and redlining the document
9. Integrated chat. The conversation channel inside the document allows you to
only speeds up the negotiation but also provides powerful compliance capability in
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