Explaining and arguing against a text

Explain

Task menu ▸ Analyze ▸ Explain

Explains the selected text: what it means, which of its terms are terms of art, what follows from it. Meant for clauses, regulations and passages you do not grasp at first reading.

With nothing selected, the whole document is taken. If there is no text even then, the add-in reports: "There is no text I can explain. Open it or import it using 'Word Helpers'."

An explanation is an interpretation, not an authority. For legally or technically delicate passages it is a starting point, not the answer.

Argue Against

Task menu ▸ Analyze ▸ Argue Against

Formulates the opposing position to the selected text. You say how many words the counter-argument should have.

What it is good for:

• Testing your own argument for holes before somebody else does.
• Preparing for an objection you can see coming.
• Presenting both sides in a position paper.

What comes out is an exercise, not research. The model will invent a counter-argument if it has to, even where there is none – it is supposed to deliver one, after all. Check whether the objections hold before you take them seriously, let alone adopt them.

Both features need a selection; Argue Against requires one.