Using DOORS Paragraph Styles

When I export to Word from DOORS, the styles named in the "Paragraph Style" attribute are NOT used to format the exported document even though I'm checking the box labeled "Use Paragraph Style attribute". The Heading Styles are interpreted correctly, but everything else defaults to "Normal". The Object Text styles are defined in the template, and I have no error messages.

What else do I need to do?

~Sandy
sgrady - Fri Oct 16 08:48:52 EDT 2009

Re: Using DOORS Paragraph Styles
llandale - Fri Oct 16 13:31:43 EDT 2009

The Paragraph Styles match up to 'styles' in Word. You need to have an MS-Word templated defined that has those styles. Heading 1, Heading 2 etc are styles defined in the default 'normal.dot', but styles 'Paragraph' or 'Object Text' are not.

So you need to create a *.dot file with all the styles, then point to that when exporting.

  • Louie

Re: Using DOORS Paragraph Styles
kbmurphy - Fri Oct 16 16:51:42 EDT 2009

llandale - Fri Oct 16 13:31:43 EDT 2009
The Paragraph Styles match up to 'styles' in Word. You need to have an MS-Word templated defined that has those styles. Heading 1, Heading 2 etc are styles defined in the default 'normal.dot', but styles 'Paragraph' or 'Object Text' are not.

So you need to create a *.dot file with all the styles, then point to that when exporting.

  • Louie

Also, you need to have it in the format of

<Object Text:Style_Name>

Just simply putting it in as

style_name

will get you nowhere.

Re: Using DOORS Paragraph Styles
SystemAdmin - Sat Oct 17 10:57:56 EDT 2009

There is also a tool in DOORS for editing these values, look more in DOORS Help section "Editing imported Word style information".