Working Document Helper — see every YP, LA and agreed change in a SEND working document in colour
SEND working documents use bold, italic, underline and strikethrough to show who proposed what. Working Document Helper reads that formatting and colours every change following the standard tribunal key — in one click.
Runs locally in Word · No AI · Your document content stays on your device
SECTION F — SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL PROVISION
The young person will receive weekly speech and language therapy fortnightly, delivered by a Band 6 therapist, as agreed at the November hearing.
The local authority will arrange and fund transport to provision each school day.
This provision is to be reviewed at the next annual review.
One click, every change. Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough become the tribunal colours — automatically, on every character.
The formatting already says who changed what
No re-keying, no manual highlighting. If your working document follows the tribunal formatting convention, WD Helper can colour it.
Open your working document
WD Helper reads every character and detects its formatting — bold, italic, underline and strikethrough.
Read: 5 changes across 3 paragraphs
Apply the tribunal key
One click colours everything: bold → YP yellow, italic → LA blue, underline → agreed green, strikethrough → deletion red.
✓ Coloured · nothing missed
Finalise once it’s agreed Pro
Accept Agreements removes the agreed markup — agreed deletions dropped, agreed insertions kept — leaving a clean plan.
→ new wording
Built for the SEND working document process
Every party’s changes, colour-separated
Reading a working document by formatting alone is slow and error-prone. Colour makes each party’s amendments — and every deletion — obvious at a glance.
- YP amendments in yellow, LA amendments in blue
- Deletions flagged red so nothing slips through
- Runs inside Word — no reformatting by hand
delivered by a Band 6 therapist,
as agreed at the November hearing.
Your team’s colours, on every plan
Prefer a different scheme, or need to match house style across a whole team? Set your own colours once and save them as a profile so every caseworker’s output looks the same.
- Editable colour for each formatting type Pro
- Consistent colour coding across every case
- Highlight and font colour both configurable
One clean document when it’s all agreed
When the parties agree, the underlined text becomes the final wording. Accept Agreements resolves it for you — dropping agreed deletions and keeping agreed insertions — so the EHC Plan reads cleanly.
- Underlined + strikethrough → removed (agreed deletion)
- Underlined text → kept, underline stripped (agreed insertion)
- A tidy, finalised plan in seconds Pro
therapy weekly twice weekly, reviewed termly.
therapy twice weekly, reviewed termly.
Free to install. Pro for teams and finalising.
Colour-coding is free forever. Pro adds custom colours and one-click finalising for heavy, repeated casework.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Colour code working documents | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table processing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom colour profiles | — | ✓ |
| Clean document / accept agreements Resolves agreed markup — drops agreed deletions, keeps agreed insertions — to produce a finalised plan. | — | ✓ |
Rolling out to a team?
Everything in Pro, plus central deployment across your Microsoft 365 tenant, volume licensing, invoiced billing and priority support — without each caseworker subscribing individually.
Case data stays on your device
Working Document Helper colours your document on your own machine, inside Microsoft Word. No AI reads the contents of your case and the document is not uploaded to us to be processed — which matters when a working document names a child.
Account, licensing, payment and analytics information is handled by our service providers. That traffic is why the add-in is listed as able to send data over the internet; it is separate from the contents of your working documents. Privacy explained →
- Colour coding runs locally in the Word add-in
- No AI models read your working documents
- EHC plans are not uploaded to colour them
- No external server needed for the core automation
Full documentation available
Step-by-step guides covering colour coding, accepting agreements, pro features, and more.
Open your next working document with WD Helper already in the ribbon
Installs in under a minute from AppSource. Works with the working documents you already exchange.