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Docs, Slides, and Redlines
The office trio: polished documents, decks that match your house style, and contract redlines you review.
Documents, presentations, and contract markups are Cowork's home turf. The technique that separates okay results from great ones is the reference file. Don't describe your house style — provide it. "Make a deck for the Q3 launch; match the structure and style of last-launch.pptx" beats three paragraphs of adjectives, because the reference carries a hundred decisions (fonts, density, tone, slide order) you'd never think to spell out.
For documents, the same pattern: hand it the meeting notes, the scattered decisions, the old plan — and ask for one coherent updated version. For targeted edits, scope the request: "revise only the pricing section; leave everything else untouched." Tight scope means fast runs and reviewable diffs.
Contract redlines show the division of labor at its clearest. Claude compares the new draft against your standard terms, flags deviations, and proposes markup language — hours of careful reading done in minutes. But redlines are judgment made visible, so every flag gets your review before anything goes back to the counterparty. Claude finds; you decide.
Three real office workflows in two minutes — the reference-file pattern in this lesson comes straight from these demos.