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New Editor Toolbar UI/UX redesign

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Editor Toolbar Redesign: What’s New

As part of our ongoing UI enhancements, we’ve updated the toolbar within the Avvoka editor to improve usability, clarity, and overall efficiency when working on templates or documents. All existing features remain available, but with a more logical structure, improved spacing, and refreshed icons to help you work faster and more intuitively.

This article outlines the main changes and how they affect your workflow. If you're used to the previous layout, you’ll find that everything is still there - just easier to access. This redesign is focused entirely on improving clarity and reducing friction as you work.

Summary of Key Benefits

  • Updated, modern icons with improved visibility and tooltips

  • Cleaner layout with reduced visual noise

  • Grouped tools to improve space usage and intuitiveness

  • Cleaner interface - less clutter, more focus

  • Additional table formatting in the right-hand sidebar

What Hasn’t Changed

  • All functionality remains exactly the same

  • There is no need to re-learn how placeholders, conditions, or operations work

  • The editor is simply easier to navigate

Tab-by-Tab Breakdown:

Automation Tab:

You will notice some of the core automation icons have been redesigned with updated, modern icons with improved visibility and tooltips (this includes brand new icons for placeholders, conditions, and libraries).

Old UI:

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New UI:

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About this tab:

The Automation tab provides full access to Avvoka’s logic-building tools. This is where you’ll find:

  • All condition types (inline, block)

  • Looping tools

  • Operations (Quick, Smart, Formula)

  • E-signature blocks and Docusign tags

  • Autolists and Find & Replace

  • Clause, Attribute, and Operation Libraries

If AI features are enabled on your account, you’ll also see the OpenAI-powered Smart Automation tool in this tab, which helps generate logic from plain English inputs.

Home Tab:

Icons have been redesigned to create a more modern and consistent visual language. Tools are now grouped under logical categories for faster access and optimised space usage, so the editor feels less cluttered and more focused.

One of the big changes is that Styles are now contained in the Home toolbar as a dropdown for easier access and improved experience.

Old UI:

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New UI:

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About this tab:

The Home tab contains all formatting-related tools, including:

  • Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough

  • Font selection, font size, and font colour

  • Bullets and numbering

  • Text alignment (now grouped into a dropdown for clarity)

  • Styles dropdown (relocated from its own tab for better accessibility)

On the right-hand side of the Home tab, you’ll also find commonly used automation shortcuts:

  • Insert Placeholder

  • Inline Condition

  • Block Condition

  • Insert System Attribute

  • Smart Automation (if enabled)

These allow you to add basic automation elements without leaving the Home view.

Insert Tab:

No major changes. The toolbar has been redesigned to provide a more consistent visual layout and smoother navigation.

Old UI:

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New UI:

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About this tab:

The Insert tab is designed for document layout and referencing tools. It includes:

  • Tables (add, delete, merge cells)

  • Cell formatting (alignment, fill colour)

  • Hyperlinks, images, and embedded files

  • Table of Contents, footnotes, page numbers, and page breaks

  • Cross-references

These tools are especially useful for building structured documents such as execution blocks and annexes.

When working with tables, you'll now see additional formatting options appear in the right-hand sidebar.

These controls allow you to:

  • Adjust cell padding and spacing

  • Set border styles or remove borders entirely

  • Control background fill colours

  • Fine-tune text alignment within individual cells or rows

These new sidebar tools allow for greater flexibility directly on the Avvoka platform.

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