This module will explain how to insert, modify and delete provisions in your document, with some exercises to allow you to practice this and find out about some useful shortcuts built into the Editor to help make drafting easier.
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Starting point
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Instructions
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Place your cursor in the empty body placeholder element
Click Enter on your keyboard to view the insert menu
Click Enter again to insert the default element at the top of the insert menu—
For Bills, this will be a Section.
When you insert a Section, Lawmaker will automatically include a subsection by default
Type Interpretation into the Heading placeholder
Use tab on your keyboard or click using the mouse to move the cursor into the ‘Text’ placeholder for the subsection and type In this Act—
To insert the definitions, click Enter and use the arrow keys on your keyboard or click using the mouse to select Definition from the insert menu, clicking Enter to insert it—
A definition will be inserted, made up of 2 placeholders—
a “Defined term” placeholder within quote marks surrounding it; and
a ‘Text’ placeholder for the meaning.
Type “the Department” means the Department for Communities; into the first definition
Insert the second definition by clicking Enter again and type “the emergency period” has the meaning given by section 1(2).
Expected outcome
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Video recording
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