Use Fast Draft templates to draft documents

Find out how to use the Fast Draft web application to benefit from automated drafting of selected standard documents and clauses from Practical Law.

Select Tools
, then Fast Draft
.

The Fast Draft web application opens at https://fastdraft.contractexpress.com.

Select Projects
then New Project
.

Search Templates,
expand the categories, or select All
to show all templates, and select the template you want to use.

Choose from the following document view options for the questionnaire.

Preview
to show live updates of the document as you answer the questionnaire.

View
to change the detail shown when you are in Preview mode.

Hide Preview
to show only the questionnaire.

Select Address book
to enter details about entities and reuse these details in this document and other documents.

Answer the questions in any order and select either Save & continue
or Next
to save your answers and move to the next section.

On the

Preview

pane, you can select an input field, shown by a link, to move to the relevant question.

Select Save & Close
to finish drafting the document.

On the Document screen, you can choose:

Edit Questionnaire
to continue answering the questions to draft the document.

Rename
to rename this document.

Delete
to delete this document from the project.

Suspend
/ Continue
to suspend or continue work on this document.

Upload New Document
to add a Document from your device or network to this project.

View Versions
: to view and open other saved versions of the document.

New Comment
: to add a comment about the draft document. You can also edit and delete existing comments.

When you've finished your draft document, select its title to download it in Microsoft Word document format.

Select the project name to return to the

Project

screen or use the breadcrumbs.

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