Colour Tab — Tribunal Key Formatting

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The Colour tab applies font colour and highlighting to paragraphs in your document based on the tribunal formatting key.

Each formatting rule maps a tribunal category to a colour. You can customise the colour assignments using the colour pickers in the table.

Click "Add Colour" to apply the current colour scheme to the document. Click "Remove Colour" to strip all tribunal colour formatting.

"Accept Agreements" processes underlined paragraphs, which are treated as agreed text under the tribunal key.

Tips

• The scan analyses every paragraph — larger documents may take a few seconds.
• Use the Highlight column to set background highlighting in addition to font colour.

The colour key

Working Document Helper reads the formatting applied to text in your document and maps it to colours following the standard tribunal convention. The mapping is displayed as a table on the Colour tab.

Highlighting (additions)

These formatting types receive a background highlight:

Formatting	Tribunal meaning	Default highlight
Bold	YP (young person) amendments	Yellow
Italic	LA (local authority) amendments	Blue

Font colour (deletions and agreements)

These formatting types receive a font colour change:

Formatting	Tribunal meaning	Default colour
Underline	Agreements	Green
Bold strikethrough	YP deletions	Red
Italic strikethrough	LA deletions	Red

Combined formatting

When text has both a highlight-triggering format and strikethrough, both are applied:

• Bold + strikethrough → yellow highlight and red font colour
• Italic + strikethrough → blue highlight and red font colour
• Strikethrough only (no bold or italic) → red highlight and black font colour

Priority rules

Formatting is applied in priority order. If text has multiple formats, the highest-priority rule wins:

1. Underline (agreements) — highest priority. If text is underlined, it receives green font colour and all other formatting rules are skipped.
2. Strikethrough combinations — bold+strike, italic+strike, or strike-only.
3. Bold only — yellow highlight.
4. Italic only — blue highlight.

Plain text (no bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough) is left unchanged.

Customising colours

Each colour in the key is editable. On the Colour tab, click the colour swatch next to any formatting type to open a colour picker.

Changes take effect on the next Add Colour operation. Previously applied colours are not retroactively updated — run Remove Colour followed by Add Colour to re-apply with new colours.

Next steps

• Adding Colour — apply the colour key to your document
• Removing Colour — strip colour coding
• Overview — return to the Working Document Helper overview