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Created On: 13-Feb-2004 07:57
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Answer This question was answered by Louie Landale, on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 4:14 PM

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Yes, using OLE tables is usually better.

You could make the tables smaller by opening the OLE and reducing the font and the width of the columns.

But realistically you need tables that fit on a page and that means breaking the table into separate tables. Its not that bad to have a table displayed in 3 parts (and therefore 3 objects).

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Ken Mcguffie

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Has anyone else had difficultly importing tables using the 'Export to DOORS' macro from Word?

I have tables with 'split' cells which will just not import.

Kenny
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Robert Lewis

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I have also found that DOORS does deal with tables with merged cells properly. I strongly
recommend that you reformat all Word tables to be grids of single cells before importing.
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Ken Mcguffie

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Thanks, just as I thought.
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Ken Mcguffie

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I have since decided to import the tables as OLE Objects since we will not need to link to the information within them. These tables are also several pages long. When I export to them to Word only about a page worth is visible. I'm think this is because OLE objects cannot span more than a page in Word.

Does anyone know if this correct or have any other suggestions. I have lots of these tables and it would be a tedious exercise to have to import them as grids of single cells and manually fix them in DOORS.

Kenny
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Louie Landale

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Answer Answer
Yes, using OLE tables is usually better.

You could make the tables smaller by opening the OLE and reducing the font and the width of the columns.

But realistically you need tables that fit on a page and that means breaking the table into separate tables. Its not that bad to have a table displayed in 3 parts (and therefore 3 objects).

- Louie
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Bernd GRAHLMANN

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DOORS 7 is able to handle splits on row-level (meaning row 4 has more/fewer cells than row 5 and so on) but not vertical splits (a cell is vertically split into 2).

Using OLE table has two drawbacks:
1. It must fit in one column (whereas a DOORS table can spread over all columns).
2. You cannot filter/search etc. on the content.

I usually prefer to avoid tables (no matter OLE or DOORS) as far as possible. Thus transforming rows into objects with attributes or just into one object text.

Cheers,
Bernd

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Sami Wahab

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I'm using DOORS 7.0 SP1 and am also having trouble importing tables with merged/spilt cells. When dealing with huge source documents, converting tables to OLE objects is extremely time consuming and going back to edit the cells is also a major burden. In my opinion, these are both work-arounds for a deficiency in the import tool which should be fixed.
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Alex Mattos

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Hi,

I have imported tables into DOORS using the Word importer tool and my tables have imported OK. The white paper detailing how to structure documents for import into DOORS states the following:

quote:

Row-by-row
24. CONVERT these tables into one-object-per-row AFTER import
into DOORS.


I cannot figure our how this is done in DOORS.

Any help will be appreciated.

Alex
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cliff Bly

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There is a set of dxl utilities called the Kitchen scripts. In this set in the tables folder, there is a dxl which converts a table row by row into objects.
You can get the kitchen scripts from Telelogic.

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Pekka Mäkinen

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Actually this "Convert DOORS table into objects" script is also in the DXL Library: in module menus choose Tools / DXL Library and look for chapter "Some example programs which illustrate various DXL features"

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