Import heading and text to one Doors ID from word to doors

The question has been asked before:

"I'm struggling with styles and formating to get an MS Word document to import correctly into DOORS.

Is there a way to import both heading text and object text into one object ID? Currently all the text for an object is imported into the heading..."
One of the answers was that it is recommended to import the heading to one ID and the text to another ID.
However, I need help to format a word document to get header and text into the same ID.
If I import from a plain text file and use a number in front of the heading, then a carrige return and the text, the import is put in one ID.
roloenni - Fri May 04 01:47:32 EDT 2012

Re: Import heading and text to one Doors ID from word to doors
llandale - Fri May 04 10:03:11 EDT 2012

There seems to be two issues here:
[1] Using the Word exporter to DOORS; no you cannot put some words into "Object Heading" and other words into "Object Text" of the same Object. You would want to merge them after export to DOORS; there is some tool for that.

[2] Some of your words are exporting into "Object Heading" when "clearly" they are intended for "Object Text".
It is the MS-Word "Outline level" that determines whether the paragraph goes into Heading or Text.
In this case your text paragraph has an "Outline level" of "Level x" instead of "Body Text"; even if that paragraph has no paragraph "Heading" numbers. Right click on the paragraph in word; format paragraph, and the "Outline level" feature is the 2nd option. Probably you want to make sure your style uses "Body Text" and will want to change that style rather than change all the paragraphs that use that style.

-Louie

(I don't recall exactly waht "Outline level" does, other than let you browse huge Word documents. I don't think using it is more useful than just using "Heading X" styles; unless you have a document with no, or huge sections and want to precision-browse unnumbered sub-sections).

Re: Import heading and text to one Doors ID from word to doors
SystemAdmin - Sat May 05 19:59:34 EDT 2012

llandale - Fri May 04 10:03:11 EDT 2012
There seems to be two issues here:
[1] Using the Word exporter to DOORS; no you cannot put some words into "Object Heading" and other words into "Object Text" of the same Object. You would want to merge them after export to DOORS; there is some tool for that.

[2] Some of your words are exporting into "Object Heading" when "clearly" they are intended for "Object Text".
It is the MS-Word "Outline level" that determines whether the paragraph goes into Heading or Text.
In this case your text paragraph has an "Outline level" of "Level x" instead of "Body Text"; even if that paragraph has no paragraph "Heading" numbers. Right click on the paragraph in word; format paragraph, and the "Outline level" feature is the 2nd option. Probably you want to make sure your style uses "Body Text" and will want to change that style rather than change all the paragraphs that use that style.

-Louie

(I don't recall exactly waht "Outline level" does, other than let you browse huge Word documents. I don't think using it is more useful than just using "Heading X" styles; unless you have a document with no, or huge sections and want to precision-browse unnumbered sub-sections).

"...I don't recall exactly what "Outline level" does..."

Documents are a hierarchical structure of paragraphs. "Outline level" is an essential property that MS Word uses to build a document as a hierarchy of headings and body text. Each heading is just a container that encapsulates one or more body text paragraphs (tables are just body text paragraphs displayed as a two dimensional matrix). This property is essential for building navigation aids such as a Table of Contents.

DOORS relies on the "Outline Level" property to try and replicate the heading and body text structure of the MS Word document. It cannot rely on the name of a style because this can be altered by MS Word users.

MS Word has built-in Heading Styles 1 to 9 and a standard Body Text style called "Normal". The Outline Level of these styles cannot be changed, but users can create their own similar styles but often they are unaware of the "Outline Level" property and modify the styles font settings to make a paragraph look like a heading or something else.
Paul Miller
Melbourne, Australia

Re: Import heading and text to one Doors ID from word to doors
cliff.sadler - Mon May 07 09:47:45 EDT 2012

I have 2 techniques that I use to help overcome poorly formatted documents prior to importing into DOORS.

The first one is to apply a very generic style set to the document in Word 2003 or newer. After applying the style set, go through the document and see what is incorrectly formatted (i.e. section headings that are suddenly "Normal" text).

The second technique is to save the document as .rtf and use the DOORS rtf import into an existing blank module instead of the Word export to DOORS. The import has an intermediate step that allows you to map all of your style names to either section headings, or normal text.

If you REALLY want to populate both object text and object heading with each line of your document, save the document as a .txt and import it into Excel. Copy the single column to a second column. One is named Object Text, and the other is named Object Heading. Pictures, and tables were probably ignored during the save, but you may get some garbage. This should produce a ton of post import clean up to keep you busy for a while....