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Document settings

General Document settings

 

General Settings
Compact Document Selecting Compact Document = true will hide empty sections from your document. See Compact Document
Document Author Any eaDocX document can have an author associated with it, saved in the profile as a simple string.
Hide Section Marks The Section bookmarks are a useful guide when building your document. See Adding eaDocX Sections to your Word Document. Hide these bookmarks when publishing.
Use EA Attribute colors EA lets you associate colors to attributes (usually ‘status’). See Using EA Colors
Document Management settings
Enable Document Management eaDocX can manage the versioning of your documents, each time they are generated. See Document Management
Column Presets
A-F These are used to make columns in different tables print as the same width.When choosing the width of a table column, simply select the icon, to get a drop-down list of these pre-set values.If you later decide to change a preset value, then all the tables which use that preset will change their column widths to use the new value.We provide some initial values for these presets, which you can change to suit your documents.

Inline Settings

Setting Description
Bullet List Style Word Style used for bullets in lists:
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Normal inline text style Word Style used for simple paragraphs of text, like this.
Numbered list text style Word Style used for numbered bullets in lists:
  • like this
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Overrides to Word Headings
Heading 1 style…….Heading 9 Style By default, eaDocX will use the the Word Heading styles which are built-in to MS word: “Heading 1″ etc.Use these settings to override those settings, to, for example use ‘My_Heading_1” instead of “Heading 1”.

 

Table Settings

Common table settings

Cell padding This determines amount of white space which is left around the text in each cell. The default is 3. The text in this table has a padding of 3.
Colors  – Heading Color of the heading row
Colors – table cells Color of each row under the heading. If you wish to use alternating colors, you should use a Word Table Style (see below)
Text Style – Heading These options allow you to choose the Word Paragraph styles which will be used when basic tables are printed.See Table Paragraph Styles
Text Style – table bullets
Text Style – table cells
Text style – numbered bullets
Vertical justification Controls whether the text in each cell is justified at he top, middle or bottom of the cell
Word table style For greater control of the appearance of the text in your tables, you can apply any Word Table Style.

Vertical Inline table settings

Cell padding This determines amount of white space which is left around the text in each cell. The default is 3. The text in this table has a padding of 3.
Text Style – Heading Word paragraph style for headings of Vertical Inline tablesSee Table Paragraph Styles
Text Style – table cells Word paragraph style for headings of Vertical Inline table cellsSee Table Paragraph Styles
Vertical justification Controls whether the text in each cell is justified at he top, middle or bottom of the cell
Word table style For greater control of the appearance of the text in your tables, you can apply any Word Table Style.

Horizontal Inline Table Settings

Cell padding This determines amount of white space which is left around the text in each cell. The default is 3. The text in this table has a padding of 3.
Text Style – Heading Word paragraph style for headings of Horizontal Inline tablesSee Table Paragraph Styles
Text Style – table cells Word paragraph style for headings of Horizontal Inline table cells: See Table Paragraph Styles
Vertical justification Controls whether the text in each cell is justified at he top, middle or bottom of the cell
Word table style For greater control of the appearance of the text in your tables, you can apply any Word Table Style.

Matrix Report settings

Matrix Heading Color Default color for the heading.
Matrix report body color
Word style for: 
cells
Source column(s)
Target heading

Diagram Settings

 

Diagram Numbering Controls how the figure number is printed below each diagram. Default is ‘Figure N’
Print figure number for each diagram true/false
Print figure number as X-Y true/false

Makes a compound heder, made from a header number (see below) and the sequential figure number within that header
Header level for first part Which level of heading to use in the above setting
Delimiter When printing a compound type, what to put between the X and Y.
Other diagram settings
Add space after diagrams true / false

Adds a small space character after each diagram caption. This uses a fixed Word paragraph style called and is there so you can control the spacing after diagrams.
Auto-print landscape true / false

Use the EA settings for the diagram to control whether the diagram prints portrait or landscape
Max diagram height 0
Min Diagram height 0
Print notes for diagrams true / false

add the diagram notes after the caption
Show diagram frame true / false
Use name as heading true / false

If true, creates a heading above the diagram, which is the same as the name of the diagram
Use name as heading : Only for Diagram+Contents true / false

As above, except only where the diagram is being printed in the ‘diagram+contents’ style
Diagram picture This is style used for the diagram picture. Use this to control whether the picture is left or right justified, or centered. Other settings for this style have no effect
Diagram title Style for the ‘Figure 1: my diagram name’ text
Diagram text, bullet and numbered bullet Used to format any diagram notes

Diagram Filters

 

Change Marking

Enabled true / false
Date Date from which changes wlll be marked
Color Color in which to highlight changes since the above date

Fixed attributes

These are some attributes which can be given fixed values, then inserted into your document wherever you need. Useful where you have a phrase or word which is not in EA, but which you want to keep using.