Guide 03 · Drafting, EDGARizing & Exhibits

How to Edit a Filing in BluePrint

When late audit adjustments or legal comments arrive, you do not have to round-trip back to Word. Open any converted filing in BluePrint’s in-browser Document Editor to revise text and financial tables, record Tracked Changes, collaborate with anchored Comments, and repaginate in seconds.

Applies to
All Word-converted filings & HTML exhibits
Workspace route
/documents → Row ⋯ → Edit (/documents/edit)
Save shortcut
Cmd+S / Ctrl+S (creates a new version)
Pagination
One-click Repaginate updates page breaks & TOC check

1. Open the Document Editor from Documents or the Viewer

Every converted filing in Working files can be edited directly in your browser. Each save creates a new numbered document version (`v2`, `v3`, etc.) so you never lose your prior baseline and can always run a redline comparison between versions.

Step 1

Choose Edit from the filing row menu or Document Viewer

On the Documents page, click ⋯ on the right side of the filing row and choose Edit (the first item in the menu). You can also open the Document Viewer first and click Edit in the top toolbar.

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Selecting Edit from the filing row's More actions (⋯) menu opens the in-browser Document Editor.
Selecting Edit from the filing row's More actions (⋯) menu opens the in-browser Document Editor.Sample data — fictitious company
Step 2

Navigate pages using the Contents outline

Inside the Document Editor (/documents/edit?id=…), your filing is rendered as individual house-print pages matching the exact page geometry of the Document Viewer. Use the left-hand Contents sidebar to jump directly to any Part, Item, financial statement, or footnote.

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The paginated house-print layout with the left-hand Contents outline for jumping directly to any section or footnote.
The paginated house-print layout with the left-hand Contents outline for jumping directly to any section or footnote.Sample data — fictitious company

2. Format text, headings, and financial tables

The Document Editor’s formatting toolbar is purpose-built for SEC EDGAR HTML compliance—every formatting action outputs clean, EFM-valid HTML without introducing unsupported CSS properties.

Editor Control Group Available Actions & Shortcuts
Typography & inline styles Font family (Times New Roman / Tinos, Arial, Courier), font size, Bold (Cmd/Ctrl+B), Italic (Cmd/Ctrl+I), Underline (Cmd/Ctrl+U), Strikethrough, Superscript, Subscript, Text color, and Highlight color.
Paragraph & lists Block style (Normal, Heading 1–4), Left / Center / Right / Justify alignment, Bulleted list, Numbered list, Decrease indent, and Increase indent.
Financial tables & rules Click inside any financial statement or footnote table to edit cells in place while preserving accounting currency symbols ($), right-aligned numeric columns, parenthetical negatives, single top borders, and double-underline totals.
Zoom & page navigation Zoom from 50% to 200% (− / +) and jump to any page number using the page indicator in the toolbar.

3. Use Tracked Changes (Suggesting mode)

When multiple team members, auditors, or outside counsel review a draft, turn on Track Changes in the editor toolbar so every insertion and deletion is visibly attributed and reviewable.

Step 3

Toggle Track Changes and review insertions & deletions

Click the Track Changes button in the toolbar to switch from direct editing to tracked-changes mode:

  • Insertions are underlined and attributed to the author and timestamp.
  • Deletions are struck through in place rather than removed immediately.
  • Accept / Reject controls: Select any tracked change and click Accept or Reject in the toolbar, or use Accept All / Reject All once sign-off is complete.
Clean EDGAR HTML output: When BluePrint generates the clean EDGAR HTML package, only accepted text is emitted—tracked deletions and comment markers are never leaked into a live SEC submission.

4. Add anchored Comments & apply Filing Assistant edits

The right-hand side of the Document Editor supports both anchored review comments and interactive Filing Assistant artifact proposals.

Step 4

Attach a comment to any phrase or number

Highlight any text or table cell in the filing and click Add Comment in the toolbar (or open the Comments pane on the right). Type your note and click Post. Team members can reply in thread, click a comment card to scroll directly to the highlighted passage, and click Resolve when addressed.

Step 5

Review and apply Filing Assistant draft artifacts

If you ask the Assistant (top-right button) to draft or revise a disclosure section, the Assistant creates a reviewable Artifact card in the editor’s Artifacts drawer. Nothing is inserted into your filing automatically—you inspect the proposed text and click Apply to insert it or Dismiss to discard it.

5. Save a new version & Repaginate

As soon as you make an edit, an amber Unsaved badge appears in the editor header and browser tab navigation is guarded so you cannot accidentally close the tab with unsaved work.

Step 6

Click Save (or press Cmd/Ctrl+S)

Click Save in the top-right corner of the editor toolbar (or press Cmd+S on macOS / Ctrl+S on Windows). BluePrint saves your edits as a new version (for example, advancing the filing from v1 to v2) and refreshes the clean EDGAR HTML artifact automatically.

Step 7

Click Repaginate and re-verify Table of Contents page numbers

If your edits added or removed paragraphs or table rows, click Repaginate in the editor toolbar. BluePrint re-flows page breaks across the entire document and updates the Page numbers check so you can confirm whether any Table of Contents page numbers shifted.

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After editing and repaginating, the Page numbers panel verifies whether printed Table of Contents numbers still match actual document pages.
After editing and repaginating, the Page numbers panel verifies whether printed Table of Contents numbers still match actual document pages.Sample data — fictitious company

Try this workflow in BluePrint today.

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