Use the Export to DOORS button in Microsoft Word to transfer
information from Microsoft Word
to Rational® DOORS®.
Before you begin
There is no option in Rational DOORS to import from Microsoft Word. If Microsoft Word is installed when you install Rational DOORS, an Export to DOORS toolbar
is added to Microsoft Word.
Data
is imported into the main column of a formal module. Headings and
text are imported into the object heading and object text attributes.
In
the Rational DOORS database explorer, open the folder or
project where you want to import the Word document. When you export
the document from Word, you specify the formal module where you want
to import the data. If the module does not exist in the folder or
project that is open, it is created during the import. If the module
exists you must confirm that you want the data to be appended to the
module. You must have create access to this folder or project.
About this task
- Paragraphs in the Word document that have Outline levels 1 - 9
are imported as heading objects.
- You can choose to ignore section numbers in the Word headings.
- Auto-numbered section numbers are always ignored.
- Paragraphs that are formatted as body text in Microsoft Word are stored in the object
text attribute. Objects that contain paragraph text are created one
level below the heading object.
- OLE objects are imported and stored as OLE objects.
- Tables are imported as Rational DOORS tables.
- Bulleted lists are imported as Rational DOORS bulleted lists
- Indented paragraphs in Word have identical indenting applied in Rational DOORS
- All other styles are imported as object text.
- Unicode and other international data are included in the import.
- If you import a document containing hidden text, and then export
the module back to Word, the hidden text is displayed in the resulting
Word document.
- You cannot import a document that contains objects created using Microsoft Equation 3.0.
You can capture the style formatting of the paragraphs in
the Word document and use that formatting if you export the module
to Word.
Procedure
- Start Word and open the document you want to send to Rational DOORS.
- In Word, click .
Note: If you are running Rational DOORS through Citrix, Word must also be running
through Citrix.
- In the Module Name field, enter
the name of the module you want to export to. If the module
does not exist in the folder or project that is open in Rational DOORS,
it is created during the import.
- Optional: In the Module Description field,
enter additional information about the module.
- Optional: In the Module Prefix field,
enter a prefix for the object identifier.
- In the Absolute Numbers Start At field,
enter the number that you want the object identifiers to start from.
- To ignore section numbers in Word headings, select Remove
heading numbers. The auto-numbering produced
by Rational DOORS might be different from the auto-numbering
in the original document. If the original document has references
to numbers, store the original numbers.
- To capture Word paragraph styles, select Capture
paragraph styles.
- Click Export.