Word macros
Rational Publishing Engine does
not update Word fields in a generated. You must manually use a macro
or manually update any the fields that you added, such as tables
of contents, tables of figures, tables of tables, figure captions,
and label captions The following table lists the Word macros that
you can run after generating the document:
Macro Name |
Location |
Description |
updateTOCs |
RPE_INSTALLATION/utils/word/updateTOCs.txt |
Updates the table of contents in the document. |
updateFields |
RPE_INSTALLATION/utils/word/updateFields.txt |
Updates the fields in the document. |
updateTablesOfFigures |
RPE_INSTALLATION/utils/word/updateTablesOfFigures.txt |
Updates the tables of figures in the document. |
insertOLEs |
RPE_INSTALLATION/utils/word/insertOLEs.txt |
Embeds the OLEs from the linked RTF files in the output document. |
RPE |
RPE_INSTALLATION/utils/word/RPE.txt |
Performs all actions from the previous macros. |
A Word dot file, which contains these macros, is
located in RPE_INSTALLATION/utils/word/RPE.dot.
When you use this file as a style sheet for Word output, you can use
any macro listed in the table.
Using Unicode data
Unicode data appears as
Unicode if the output can display the characters. The specified font
must be on the computer used to view the document. The font family
used for a template element can be specified through:
Location |
Applies to |
font family property of the element. |
The template element and all the child elements that do not
explicitly set the property. |
font family property of the style applied to the element. |
The template element and all the child elements that do not
explicitly set the property. |
font properties of the styles defined in the stylesheet
(other than normal). |
All the template elements that use the specified style. |
Normal style in the template. |
All template elements that do not have a different style
applied. |
Output formats extenstions
The Word output
format depends on the extension that you specify:
Extension |
Format of generated document |
.doc |
Word 2003. |
.docx |
Word 2007, without the ability to run macros. |
.docm |
Word 2007, with the ability to run macros. |