Clauses: Adding and Editing > Editing Tools

As you add variables and <<*Options/ Optional*>> text blocks to your documents, the greater the possibility of an imbalance in the opening and closing markers. Pathagoras can help.

1.	Display the ‘Editing Tools’ menu and the Color and Balance tab within that menu.

2.	Select the Balance Markers. Pathagoras will count them and report back which ones are out of balance.

In a large document, it may be challenging to narrow down the location of an imbalance. By following these steps, you should have an easier time:

Perform a Balance check on the entire document just to see if there is an imbalance. If there is one:

1.	Highlight half of the document. Perform a Balance Check on that half. No error is reported, you will know that the imbalance is in the 'other' half.

2.	Highlight half of the section which you know contains the imbalance. Perform a Balance Check.

3.	Repeat until you have narrowed the selection down as far as practicable.

Make sure, as you are highlighting various sections, that you don't accidentally create a character imbalance within the highlighted text. It is easy to be checking for the balance of '[' and ']' characters but highlight the document in such a way as to pick up a '<<' set but not the '>>' closing set. (Or, if you do create an 'artificial imbalance,' simply ignore the imbalance report for that character if you otherwise know the document is 'balanced' regarding that character.)

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