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Overview


Introduction

The implementation works with MS Word 2000 (MS Office 2000) in Windows. It is assumed that you are familiar with MS Word terminology and how to use MS Word. Some experience with MS Word templates and macros is also required when setting up the integrated environment.

MS Word Document Handling

Support for MS Word document editing is available in the Organizer. When connecting MS Word to the Organizer, the process SdtWord will be started in the background.

In the Organizer, MS Word documents are identified by the document type "Text Word" when adding new or existing documents.

In the Organizer, MS Word document are represented with the icon shown to the left. Unlike other document types, when a MS Word documents becomes modified, its icon is not marked as "dirty".

A new MS Word documents is always named "Document<x>", where <x> is an integer, regardless of what name it was given in the Organizer.

Link Handling

SOMT implementation links in MS Word documents are supported. This gives the possibility to handle link endpoints and follow the links defined for these endpoints.

An MS Word endpoint icon in the Organizer looks the same as a document icon.

In MS Word, endpoints are marked with special character formats. The appearance for endpoints without associated links is underlined, blue text. The appearance for endpoints with associated links is double underlined, bold, blue text.

Endpoints in MS Word documents are represented with bookmarks whose names are of the format "SDT_<x>", where <x> is an integer uniquely identifying the endpoint.

Undo is not available for the link handling commands.


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