Most legal drafting happens in Word. The petition you are revising, the agreement you received from the other side, the notice your junior prepared. All of it lives in a .docx file long before it becomes a PDF.

Until now, using any of that with an AI tool meant an extra step: open the file, save it as PDF, then upload. Small on its own, tiresome by the tenth time.

You can now upload Word files directly to every AI tool on the platform.

What survives the upload

A Word document is not just text. A schedule of property is a table. A plaint has numbered paragraphs. A written statement has headings that separate the preliminary objections from the paragraph-wise reply.

All of that structure is preserved and passed to the AI. A two column party table stays a table with rows and columns instead of collapsing into a run of names. Auto numbered clauses keep their numbering. Headings stay headings.

This matters more than it might sound. When a table flattens, "Ramesh Patel, Plaintiff, Suresh Shah, Defendant" becomes ambiguous prose, and the AI has to guess who is who. Keeping the structure means it does not have to guess.

Where it works

Every tool that accepts a file upload takes .docx now, including Analysis, Draft, Reply, Summary, Legal Opinion, QnA, Grounded Validation, Section Suggestor, Data Extraction, Translation and Chat with Documents.

PDF still works exactly as before. Nothing about your existing files or workflow changes. You simply have a second option where you previously had one.

A note on older .doc files

The upload accepts .docx, the modern Word format. If you have an older .doc file, open it in Word and use Save As to convert it. The uploader will tell you if you try, so nothing fails silently.

We chose to ask for the conversion rather than accept .doc quietly, because the older format strips out the numbering and table structure that makes this feature worth having. A .doc upload would have given you a worse result while looking like it worked.

SMRITI still takes PDFs

One exception worth knowing. The SMRITI library and case document upload remain PDF only for now, because they run a different indexing process. Everywhere else, bring the Word file.