# Abstract a document Help Center | LeasePilot

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# Abstract a document

Generate a Word abstract from a LeasePilot draft or an uploaded executed lease.

Workflow

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Format

Interactive demo

Read time

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Fig. 01Abstract a document

A lease abstract is the structured summary your team produces after a deal closes: tenant, premise area, term, rent schedule, options, restrictions, all the material terms pulled into a document a lender or asset manager can read in two minutes instead of two hours. Most firms still produce these by hand. LeasePilot generates one from the lease in a single click.

## 01How it works

Open any document, click the ⋯ menu in the toolbar, and pick **Abstract**. A dialog opens with two paths:

1.  i.**Version in LeasePilot** — abstract the version of the document you currently have open.
2.  ii.**Version from your computer** — upload a `.docx` or `.pdf` and abstract that instead. Use this when the executed lease lives outside LeasePilot, for example when the final rounds happened in Word over email and the signed copy never came back into the platform.

Click **Download** and a Word document with the structured terms downloads to your machine.

## 02Why upload support matters

In real workflows, the version in LeasePilot isn't always the version that got signed. Late negotiations sometimes happen in Word over email; counterparties sometimes counter from their own templates; the executed copy comes back signed but redlined. Whatever happened, you still want a clean abstract of what was actually agreed. Uploading the final `.docx` or `.pdf` lets you abstract the executed document without re-importing or recreating it inside LeasePilot.

> Note**The output is a Word doc, not a screen.** Abstracts get emailed to lenders, attached to closing binders, and pasted into asset files. So the format matches the workflows those already use, instead of being a LeasePilot-only view that has to be exported.

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For pulling deal terms out of a letter of intent _before_ you start drafting (the inverse of abstraction, in a sense), see [import deal terms](/resources/help/demos/import-deal-terms). For portfolio-wide views of the data across many leases at once, see [reports](/resources/help/demos/reports).

See also

## Adjacent step-throughs

[Full index](/resources/help#step-throughs)

1.  [01
    
    Compare two versions
    
    Run a comparison between two documents and get a redline in Microsoft Word.
    
    Revise](/resources/help/demos/compare-versions)
2.  [02
    
    Import deal terms
    
    Upload an LOI or term sheet; LeasePilot reads it, applies the terms it finds, and asks you to confirm each one.
    
    Extract](/resources/help/demos/import-deal-terms)
3.  [03
    
    Reports
    
    Build, filter, save, and export structured views of your portfolio data.
    
    Extract](/resources/help/demos/reports)
4.  [04
    
    Autopilot
    
    A chat panel inside the document for drafting suggestions, revisions, risk callouts, and quick questions.
    
    Automate](/resources/help/demos/autopilot-intro)

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A 30-minute walkthrough, built around your forms, your clauses, and your deal logic.

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