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Variables are the connection between your workflow questions and the data that will end up in your output documents. The no-code Gavel Word Add-In allows you to insert basic variables into your documents without needing to learn code.

Learn what steps to take to generate a separate copy of a document for each item in a repeating item.

Learn how to use the Word Add-In to make the appearance of certain words or phrases dependent on the user’s answer to a question.

Learn how to use the Word Add-In to make the appearance of certain paragraphs (or even whole pages) dependent on the user’s answer to a question.

Use any combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to create calculations in your documents.

Dates can be in any format you like, using special syntax to output in various styles.

Number or number with decimal variables can be set in any format you like, using special syntax to output in various styles.

You can output text in various styles and settings, including all upper case, title case, fully lowercase, or adding indefinite articles.

There's a lot you can do with the answers to Multi Select questions. Have responses appear as a list, or set logic based on how many Multi Select selections were made.

Formatting phone numbers, SSNs, EINs and other numbers, by using special syntax to output in various styles.

Not finding the right date format in our Word Add-In? You can find examples of different ways to format them here.

Learn the basics of repeating item questions, how to set them up, and special ways to format them in your output documents.

In this article learn more about how to insert repeating item attributes into text, and different ways to format them.

Learn how to set up conditionals for repeating item questions.

How to display item numbers and provides instructions for different methods and formats.

There is so much you can do with Repeating Item Questions. We've documented some of the other frequently requested options including referring to the prior or next item, sorting items, or showing only certain items.

Your documents may have several signatures at the bottom based on the number of signatories or members to an agreement. This shows you how to create multiple signatures based on a repeating item.

Learn how to use the values of an earlier repeating item question as the selection options for a question on a subsequent page.

Ask a set of questions about a particular repeating item question by adding nested repeating items.

Incorporate file uploads into your Word documents by adding their variable names like any other variable. That way, any file that is uploaded in response to your file upload variable will be copied directly into your document when the document is generated.

This article describes Gavel’s Number Iterator function, that allows you to create custom numbers within text. These numbers automatically adjust and renumber when paragraphs are removed or added with conditional logic.

Learn how to insert the contents of another template into one of your templates.

Learn more about our redaction function. This function allows you to redact a variable in your documents while still collecting and displaying the variable in other documents.

You can perform logic and calculations with Clio and CSV variables just as you can with regular variables with custom syntax.