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In Office 2007, the Options command which was located on the
Tools menu has been moved under the
Office Button
. Click the
Office Button
to open the
Options Dialog. This dialog is similar to the sub-menu located under the
File menu in Office 2003. To open the user preference dialog, you have to click on the
Word Options button located on the lower left corner of the
Office Button Dialog.
OSEE does not support Word 2007 XML format. Documents should be saved using Word 2003 XML Document format.
[ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR100654561033.aspx Office 2007 How-To Demos]
Quick Answer: No
This question comes up when users find out that OSEE is integrated with Microsoft Word as one method to enter artifact data such as requirements.
OSEE uses Artifacts, Attributes and Relations to store information in its data store. The Attributes associated with a certain Artifact can be boolean, text, date, float or any newly created attribute type. One such attribute type is a "Word Content" attribute. This allows word content to be added as an attribute to an Artifact. This attribute, however, is not required to be used. One could define a "Software Requirement" to be any set of Attribute types that must/can be entered. Although, Word 2003 XML is more tightly integrated into OSEE, the architecture provides for other editing applications to be plugged in. We are actively working on adding tight integration with Open Office to edit requirements.
In addition to this specific type of Attribute, OSEE does allows any operating system file to be dragged in and created as an Artifact. This artifact, when opened, will extract its data and present it to the operating system to allow viewing and editing. This allows things like requirements to be specified by other modeling, diagraming or even mathematical applications that OSEE doesn't know about. These artifacts can have their own metadata associated and also be related to other artifacts in the system.
Yes. OSEE will import existing Word 2003 XML documents and atomize them by their paragraph sections. The Word styles "Heading (1...9)" are used to determine the breakout into individual artifacts and their position in the document hierarchy.
Whole MS Word documents can be stored and edited as an artifact like any other native file type without any formatting restrictions of any kind. However, to use the more tightly integrated support such as editing many artifacts in a single Word document or the document generation capabilities, then the file format needs to be MS Word 2003 XML. Since OSEE supports user defined Word XML templates for editing, previewing, comparing, and publishing, the user has complete control over the Word styles (and all other formatting) through the rendering templates. The only formmatting requirements for Word content are that when importing the Word styles "Heading (1...9)" are used to determine the breakout into individual artifacts and their position in the document hierarchy.
To toggle viewing of XML tags, press Ctrl+Shift+X. You should enable these unless you have a good reason not to.
As you may have already seen, Word will take the following: (A) -> XXX And turn it into some type of numbered list, such as:
This will cause incorrect formatting, because Word will automatically create styles that are not part of the templates used for rendering and publishing in OSEE. Ultimately this auto-numbering leads to the need for fix RPCRs. Additionally when introduced using Word 2003, it can cause compatibility issues.
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