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Claude for Word

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verdict

WorkedP1 Karen vs Kieran 2/2, including that Karen's cut would delete the sentence Sandra needs

NoteP1 Sandra already answered +1, with the benefit lines and the seven-year payback against a five-year policy

BrokeP2 34% benchmark 1/2: saw the figure, could not verify it from the model, stopped, lost the mark

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Claude for Word: 16/17 on a planted-fault board paper

Claude for Word on launch-day Fable 5.1 scored 16/17 against six plants in a board paper. Paper £1.24m, cost model v3 £1.43m. The 34% benchmark was the only partial mark.

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verdict

Use it to review comments. Use it to fact-check after a source I have given it and I am happy with. Use it for the final cut, with two conditions: the rewrite arrives as one insertion and one deletion, so it is all or nothing; every number in that rewrite is mine, because Word has already put my name on the revisions. Do not stop reading the paper.

worked

P1 Karen vs Kieran 2/2, including that Karen's cut would delete the sentence Sandra needs

broke

P2 34% benchmark 1/2: saw the figure, could not verify it from the model, stopped, lost the mark

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