Using a Microsoft Word document as a style sheet

You can customize the styles in a Microsoft Word document and apply them to a Rational® Publishing Engine document.

About this task

You can use Microsoft Word documents as style sheets for generating templates into other Microsoft Word documents, PDF, and Legacy pdf documents.
Note: When you create custom styles in Microsoft Word, you have the choice of creating paragraph, character, table, or list style types. Only paragraph and character styles are supported for use in Rational Publishing Engine.

Procedure

  1. In Microsoft Word, customize your styles.
  2. Save the document as a Microsoft Word 1997-2003 (.doc or .dot) or Microsoft Word 2007 document or template (.docx or .dotx). All of these file types are handled the same way when generating documents with Rational Publishing Engine.
  3. In the Document Studio application, apply styles with the same names as the Microsoft Word document to the template elements.
  4. In the Launcher application, right-click the Target: Word or Target: PDF output type.
  5. Click Configure output.
  6. In the stylesheet field, enter the path and name to the Microsoft Word document you created.
  7. Publish the output.

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