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House Styles · explained

What a house style is, and why a template alone isn't enough.

A house style is the way a firm's documents look: the fonts, the heading hierarchy, the clause numbering, the spacing, the way footnotes are set. Most firms hold it in a Word template and in the habits of the people who type.

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The parts

Six things a house style decides.

01

Fonts

Typeface, size, weight and emphasis, drawn from your approved examples.

02

Heading hierarchy

Titles, headings and subheadings mapped to the styles your firm uses.

03

Clause numbering

Numbering and indentation copied from the structure of your documents.

04

Paragraph spacing

Line spacing, margins and gaps made consistent across the rebuilt draft.

05

Footnote text

Note text kept and styled to match your examples, returned as editable text in the body rather than as Word's linked footnotes.

06

Review signals

Uncertain words flagged for a person to decide instead of being guessed.

Why a template doesn't fix a scan

A template holds the styles. A scan has nothing to attach them to.

A Word template is a set of named styles. It can only style a heading once something is a heading. A scan is a picture of a page, and a basic converter returns floating text boxes with no headings, numbering levels or paragraph styles for the template to map onto.

So applying the template means rebuilding that structure by hand first, which is close to retyping. LexForge rebuilds the structure from the scan, then applies your style to it. How a scan becomes an editable Word draft.

How LexForge learns yours

Add one reference file per house style. Add a new one when your firm's style changes.

  1. 01

    Upload your firm's style example

    Add one Word template or finished document per house style. LexForge learns from that one file.

  2. 02

    LexForge builds a clean style set

    Headings, numbering, fonts, footnote text and layout are made consistent.

  3. 03

    Upload old scans

    Get back an editable, consistently styled Word draft.

Formatting changes; wording is kept as read, never rewritten by AI. Every scan comes back as a review copy, with uncertain words highlighted for you to check against the original. How the wording check works.

Each house style learns from the one file you upload. For now, that file cannot be swapped for another: if your firm's style changes, upload the new file as a new house style. A workspace admin can also relearn a house style, which reads the same file again from the start. A Word file keeps its own clause numbering; your house style's numbering is applied to scanned PDFs only.

A house style is optional. The Reconstruct page has the full picture; Pricing has the plans.

See one applied

The sample lease, in a serif house style.

The sample lease page as an editable Word draft in a serif house style: numbered clauses, a footnote, and one uncertain word highlighted for review.

Named styles in the draft

  • TitleLease
  • Heading 11. Definitions and Interpretation
  • Definition 11.1 “Demised Premises” …
  • Body 12.1 The Tenant shall keep …
  • FootnoteThe plan referred to in clause 1.1 …

One word is highlighted for review. See the scan and the draft side by side.

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