Abstract: An interactive computerized document assembly system includes a model template formed of a sequence of sections and having decisional options including clause repeats and conditional clauses and questions to be answered for a document to be assembled; as well as functions for indicating the location in the model template for the decisional options to identify the sequence of sections constituting the model template; a video display for displaying a portion of the template; an answer index for storing answers to questions posed in the portion of the template displayed, each of the questions having a unique identifier; merging with each displayed section or part thereof the answers corresponding to each displayed section or part thereof; and combining and redisplaying in sequence each displayed merged section or part thereof in order to assemble a document from the model template.

Abstract: A document assembly customization system for modifying a source instrument including text and decisional commands and their associated decisional clauses, including a function for indicating each decisional command and, its associated decisional clause in the instrument; a word processor for moving and deleting decisional commands and their associated decisional clauses; a function for generating a new template from the modified source instrument; and a decision index generator which generates a decision index identifying each decisional command and its associated decisional clause and their location in the text of the modified source instrument.