Editing Provisions

You can easily add and remove provisions. You can also adjust the numbering level of provisions and give provisions a title.

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Selecting provisions	Selecting Provisions
Creating and deleting provisions	Adding and Removing Provisions
Promoting and demoting provisions to different numbering levels	Adjusting the Numbering Level of Provisions
Moving provisions before or after other provisions	Moving Provisions
Giving a provision a title	Adding Titles to Provisions
Adding text, defined terms, and other kinds of content to provisions	Adding Content to Provisions
Setting a provision in all caps	Setting Provisions with Uppercase Letters
Replacing provisions with a numbered list	Converting Provisions to Numbered Lists

Selecting Provisions

You select provisions before you work with them.

Here are ways to select provisions:

Click anywhere in a provision.
To select a provision whose content you’re editing, press Shift-Return. See Adding Content to Provisions to learn about editing a provision’s content.

Adding and Removing Provisions

You can easily add and remove provisions.

To insert a provision:

Click a provision to select it.
Do any of the following:
- To insert a provision above the one you selected, choose Insert > Item Before or press Command–Option–Up Arrow key.
- To insert a provision below the one you selected, choose Insert > Item After or press Command–Option–Down Arrow key.

To delete a provision:

Click a provision to select it.
Press the Delete key or choose Edit > Delete.

When you delete a provision, the Proofreader flags cross-references to this provision as drafting errors. To learn about cross-references, see Using Cross-References; to learn more about the Proofreader, see Checking for Drafting Errors.

Adjusting the Numbering Level of Provisions

You can adjust the numbering level of a provision.

To change a provision’s numbering level:

Click a provision to select it or set the insertion point within a provision, and then do any of the following:
- To decrease the numbering level (promote to a more senior level of hierarchy), choose Format > Provision > Decrease Numbering Level, click the Decrease button in the toolbar, or press Command–Option–Left Arrow.
- To increase the numbering level (demote to a more junior level of hierarchy), choose Format > Provision > Increase Numbering Level, click the Increase button in the toolbar, or press Command–Option–Right Arrow.
- To make the provision even with its subprovisions, choose Format > Provision > Make Even with Subprovisions, click the Make Even button in the toolbar, or press Command–Option–Control–Right Arrow.

See Numbering Provisions to learn more about provision numbering.

Moving Provisions

You can move a provision before the provision that precedes it, or after the provision that follows it.

To move a provision before the preceding provision:

Click a provision to select it or set the insertion point within a provision, and then choose Format > Move Before Preceding Item or press Command–Option–Control–Up Arrow:

To move a provision after the following provision:

Click a provision to select it or set the insertion point within a provision, and then choose Format > Move After Following Item or press Command–Option–Control–Down Arrow:

Adding Titles to Provisions

You can add a title to a provision.

Here are ways to work with provision titles:

To add a title to a provision, click the provision to select it, and then choose Format > Provision > Add Title or press Command‑T.
To modify a provision’s title, click the provision to select it, click the provision’s title, and then begin typing or deleting text.
To remove a title from a provision, click the provision to select it, and then choose Format > Provision > Delete Title or press Command‑T.

You can format the appearance of provision titles; see Formatting Provision Titles to learn how.

Provision titles are not checked by the Proofreader. To learn more about proofreading, see Checking for Drafting Errors.

Adding Content to Provisions

You can add a variety of content to provisions, including text, defined terms, definitions lists, cross-references, ancillary references, numbered lists, provisos, line breaks, and paragraph breaks. You can also merge provisions together.

Here are ways to work with content in provisions:

To add content to an empty provision, click the provision to select it, and then begin typing.
To edit content in a provision, click the provision to select it, click the content you want to edit, and then begin typing.
To delete content in a provision, click the provision to select it, select the content you want to delete, and then press the Delete key or choose Edit > Delete.

You may want to merge related provisions together. To do this, select the contents of the provisions you want to merge (by dragging, for example), and then choose Format > Merge or press Control‑M.

To learn about working with text, defined terms, cross-references, and other kinds of content, see Working with Text.

You can use provisions together with numbered lists to create complex language; see Using Numbered Lists and Provisions Together to learn more.

Setting Provisions with Uppercase Letters

You can easily set a provision in all uppercase letters

To make a provision all caps:

Select the provision you want to make all caps.
Choose Format > Provision > All Caps.

Converting Provisions to Numbered Lists

You can convert provisions to items in a numbered list. You may want to do this to include text, a proviso list, or other content after a series of subprovisions, but within the provision that contains these subprovisions.

To convert provisions to items in a numbered list:

Select the provision whose subprovisions you want to convert to a numbered list.
Choose Format > Provision > Convert Subprovisions to Numbered Lists.

To learn more about using provisions and numbered lists together, see Using Numbered Lists and Provisions Together. To learn about numbered lists, see Using Numbered Lists. To learn about proviso lists, see Using Proviso Lists