Exporting from Word to DOORS

What is the best way to export a document from Microsoft Word to DOORS while keeping it useful? I have some lengthy documents in Word form and when I export them into DOORS they become a mess of disconnected letters, structure, and  text. It takes hours to clean them up again to the point that they are actually useful. The other option is to cut and paste paragraphs at a time from the Word document into DOORS, but while this produces a clean useable product it takes hours. The documents that I am working with contain structure, text, tables, and graphs. I have attempted to convert them into RTF format and then export to DOORS, but this does not help. No matter what I do I end up with a mess of a document in DOORS after the Word export. With smaller documents I just cut and paste, but with a 600 page document that is not practical. What is the magic to getting a large formatted Word document into DOORS in a useable fashion? Help!

Re: Exporting from Word to DOORS
PRM - Wed Oct 29 16:54:49 EDT 2014

The ease in which a MS Word document can be exported to DOORS depends on whether the author of the MS Word document knows how to use MS Word's styles rather than hacking at them and understanding what can and cannot be exported. Nearly all MS Word documents need some level of preparation before export - it's the same for all vendor applications like DOORS that claim that they support imports from MS Office products.

I have attached a guide to exporting MS Word documents to DOORS - it was written a while ago but I'm confident that it is still relevant because the basic style structure of MS Word is still the same and successive owners of DOORS have inexplicably not advanced its MS Word import features one zot since about DOORS version 5.0. I have had to modify some references to a consulting company that I no longer work for but I own the IP on the document - happy to now share.

Happy reading.

Paul Miller
Melbourne, Australia