One of our core values at Patent Bots is that we want our tools to be easy and even enjoyable to use. Your time is valuable, and we don't want to waste it. We spend an enormous amount of time thinking about our user interface and how to make it better to save you time.
Our Word add-in is an important part of making our patent proofreading easier to use, and we are excited to announce two cool improvements to our Word add-in. Our Word add-in now shows proofreading results within Word instead of opening a separate browser window. With this update, our proofreading results are able to interact directly with your Word document.
To get access to the new features described below, you need to have the latest version of our Word add-in. If you don't have it, you can force an update by uninstalling and reinstalling the add-in. See our documentation for details.
AutoNav
The first new feature is called AutoNav. On demand, we automatically scroll your Word document to show you the part of the patent application you are reviewing in the proofreading results.
In the example above, the user is reviewing our proofreading results for claim 2. When you click the blue arrow, we automatically scroll the Word document to show you claim 2. This makes it very easy to jump to portions of the Word document and saves you time in reviewing proofreading results.
We include AutoNav arrows every time we show you text of the patent application in our proofreading results. Not only for claims, but also when we show you paragraphs of the specification for word support and reference labels. With a quick click, you are looking at the exact part of your application that you need.
Ref Label Navigation
We've added another navigation feature to our Ref Label Tracker. For each ref label, we've added four buttons:
- — Go to first instance
- — Go to previous instance
- — Go to next instance
- — Go to last instance
Using these buttons, you can easily cycle through each instance of a ref label in your patent application.
We'll be adding more Word add-in awesomeness throughout the year. Please let us know if there is anything in particular you would like to see!
