Understanding Nonstandard Clauses

This demonstration discusses the differences between the two kinds of nonstandard clauses: a nonstandard clause you create by editing a standard clause and a nonstandard clause that you create from scratch.

Steps:

1. Navigate to the contract terms in the contract.

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2. This contract has two nonstandard clauses.

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3. In the contract terms they are distinguished by a special icon.

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4. Let's examine both of these clauses.

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5. Select the first nonstandard clause.

    

   Click the Technical Support list item.

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6. You cannot see what makes this clause nonstandard in the preview, but you can in the Edit Clause window.

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7. Click the Edit Clause button.

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8. The application displays the clause in the Edit Clause window

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9. This particular nonstandard clause was created by editing a standard clause.

    

   You can tell because it includes the Compare with Standard and Revert to Standard buttons.

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10. If you want to revert the clause to the original standard clause, you can do so using the Revert to Standard button.

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11. To see what was changed, compare the current clause text with the original.

     

    Click the Compare with Standard button.

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12. The application displays the clause text in the Compare Clause text window.

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13. You can view any edits to the standard clause in the Comparison Results region.

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14. No edits here, so scroll down to see the rest of the text.

     

    Click the Comparison Results scrollbar.

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15. You can see that the amount of renewal increase was changed from six percent to four percent.

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16. Click the Done button.

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17. Now let's examine the second nonstandard clause.

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18. Click the Viruses and Malware list item.

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19. Click the Edit Clause button.

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20. The application displays the clause in the Edit Clause page.

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21. This clause does not have the Compare to Standard and Revert to Standard buttons. This means that this nonstandard clause was created from scratch.

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22. Click the OK button.

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23. There is a quicker way to determine all of the edits by reviewing the contract deviations.

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24. Click the Actions menu bar.

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25. Click the Review Contract Deviations list item.

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26. The application displays the Review Contract Deviations page listing any differences between the contract terms in the contract and in the original contract terms template.

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27. You can see that the contract includes two nonstandard clauses.

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28. This nonstandard clause was created by editing a standard clause.

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29. You can compare the clause text with the original.

     

    Click the Compare Clause button.

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30. The application displays the Compare Clause Text page.

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31. There are no changes visible in the comparison results, so scroll down.

     

    Click the scrollbar.

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32. Here is the  change. The six percent was replaced with four.

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33. Click the Done button.

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34. This nonstandard clause was created from scratch.

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35. View its text.

     

    Click the Clause Text button.

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36. Click the Done button.

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This concludes the demonstration explaining the two different kinds of nonstandard clauses.

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