MSWord style setting for UC structured scenarios

[Igor Knezevic]

Hi,

Where do I set the default MS Word style for steps of the UC structured scenario?

I have an issue that whatever I set in ‘edDocX Options and Settings/Inline text settings’ under ‘Normal inline text style’ does not affect the style of the text in the UC structured scenario steps. In fact when I look at the style for the steps in MS Word it doesn’t have a style allocated to it at all so I cannot change it easily in MS, nor can I maintain the change coz when I regenerate it goes back to Times New Roman 12.

Can you advise please what am I doing wrong?

Cheers,

Igor

[eadocX Support]

There is no specific style for structured scenario steps. If you choose to print them in a table, they will use the ‘table’ style settings, if inline, then the inline styles will be used.
If you have not specified a style to be used e.g. for table text, then Word will use the ‘Normal’ (in UK English) style, which seems to often default to Times New Roman 12.
So, if you’re printing the steps in tables, create a style in Word, and call it something like ‘tableText’ (note – no spaces allowed in style names – HTML restriction), then in eaDocX Options and Settings, choose your ‘tableText’ style for ‘Text style – table cells’.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by eadocX Support.

[Igor Knezevic]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

I’ve set the profile to print the structured steps as inline text. When I click on the text in the generated document, MS Word does not show that the text has any style applied to it, thus I cannot change the style and the steps always get Times New Roman 12, even though my default ‘Normal’ style has different settings.

I’ve double checked the eaDocX settings are set to apply normal style for inline text formatting and I’ve confirmed that it honours that for, for instance, use case description. When I click on the text from the description the Word clearly identifies that the style is ‘Normal’. This indicates to me that there is a problem in either how I configured eaDocX or in the application itself.

I’ve attached the snapshots of the eaDocX settings, an example where the style has been applied and the other where it hasn’t.

From the attached snapshots you can also see that the description text style is ‘Normal’ and it is not Times New Roman 12, but the use case steps are still in Times New Roman 12.

Cheers,

Igor

[eadocX Support]

Thanks for the examples: I can see that there is definitely a problem somewhere.
I’ve just re-tested v3.4.0.2, and it seems to be OK – which eaDocX version are you using?
Also, I’m using it with EA11 (probably not a factor) and Word 2010 (may be a factor).
Have you tried defining a new Word style, then using that for Normal Inline text, just to see if something strange is happening with the ‘Normal’ style?
We have seen some problems with non-UK/US English installations, where there is no ‘Normal’ Word paragraph style. Which Locale are you using for Word? We added a setting in the eaDocX Application settings to let you change the default ‘Normal’ style to whatever ‘Normal’ is in your local language.

[Igor Knezevic]

Hello,
I was on a version prior to 3.4, but installed 3.4 and the issue is still there.
I’m on EA10.
Word 2010.
I defined a new style (to colour the words in brown 🙂 ), set the style as default in eaDocX settings, it all worked well apart from the UC steps, which still have no style assigned to them.
I’m in Australia, so EN-AU is set as default.
Cheers,
Igor

[eadocX Support]

Please can you try to create a new Word paragraph style (with no spaces in the style name), and see if (1) eaDocX can use it to print other text, then (2) whether eaDocX can use it to print scenario steps.

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