Working Document Helper
Designed to help parties work with Education, Health and Care Plans through the Working Document Process. See changes made through the working document process instantly — colour and highlighting applied automatically, following the working document key.
What is the working document process?
In SEND tribunal proceedings, parties exchange proposed amendments to an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan using a shared "working document". Each party uses specific text formatting — bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough — to indicate who is proposing what change.
The standard tribunal colour key translates this formatting into colours so changes are immediately visible at a glance. Working Document Helper applies this colour key automatically — saving hours of manual formatting review.
Learn more in the FAQ →How Colour Coding Works
- 1Open a working document in Microsoft Word
- 2Click the WD Helper button on the Home ribbon
- 3The add-in reads each character's formatting (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough)
- 4Text colour and highlighting are applied following the tribunal working document key
- 5Every character is checked — nothing is missed
How Clean Works (Pro feature)
- 1The add-in reads each character for underlined formatting (agreed text in the tribunal key)
- 2Underlined + strikethrough characters are deleted (agreed deletions)
- 3Underlined characters without strikethrough have the underline removed (agreed insertions)
- 4The result is a clean, finalised document
Free vs Pro
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Colour code working documents | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom colour profiles | — | ✓ |
| Clean document (remove agreed markup) | — | ✓ |
| Price | Free | [PLACEHOLDER: Insert Pro price] |
Full documentation available
Step-by-step guides covering colour coding, accepting agreements, pro features, and more.
Technical Details
Where it runs
The add-in runs entirely within your local copy of Microsoft Word. No document data leaves your computer.
How it is built
Built using HTML, CSS and TypeScript, leveraging jQuery for interaction with Word documents via the Office Add-ins platform. For more, see Microsoft's documentation.