Opening requirement content from the Requirements view

There are two ways to open a requirement's Microsoft Office Word content for editing:

• In the MS Word view, an embedded Word window in the Requirements Manager and Systems Engineering perspectives. The MS Word view must be enabled to open Word files in Windows.
• In a separate Word window.

Note: These methods differ from opening Word documents that are stored in Teamcenter and may be related to requirement objects or other objects. They also differ from opening requirement content from Client for Office using Teamcenter live Word. The My Teamcenter Viewer does not support editing or viewing rich-text content.

Caution: On Teamcenter servers using the ISO 8859-1 character set (TC_CHARACTER_ENCODING_SET), some characters of the Microsoft Office Word rich-text format cannot be translated to plain text. These characters include, for example, Word's smart quotation marks, em dashes, and symbols such as Ohm signs (Ω).

Such characters are replaced by question marks (?) in plain text and in the Systems Engineering interface, for example, in object names and in certain property values. To avoid this problem, do one of the following:

• Before you enter content for an object, switch the MS Word view to display plain text.
• Run the Teamcenter server on Windows, using a database that is compatible with CP1252 encoding.
• Use UTF-8 encoding for the Teamcenter server and database.

Related Topics

• Switch the Microsoft Word View to plain text