A requirement specification is a container for requirements and paragraphs. These objects can be structured in a hierarchy of parent, child, and sibling relationships.

With Client for Office, you can use Microsoft Office Word to build requirement structures in Systems Engineering by performing any of the following:

• Build a structure manually in the Requirements pane and the document window.
• Build a structure automatically by importing a Word document as a new requirement specification.

Options for manipulating requirement structures and supported document modes

Option	Document mode
Creating new requirement specifications	Online and connected to Teamcenter
Creating and copying requirements and paragraph objects	Offline or online
Moving requirements and paragraph objects by cutting and pasting	Offline or online
Promoting and demoting requirements and paragraph objects to higher and lower levels	Offline or online
Removing requirements and paragraph objects from structures	Offline or online
Rearranging requirements and paragraph objects within a level	Offline or online
Creating trace links between objects	Online and connected to Teamcenter
Editing object properties	Offline or online
Initiating workflow processes for selected objects	Online and connected to Teamcenter

You cannot change requirement objects in the structure that are locked for edit.

The requirement object in the exported Word document is locked for edit for the following conditions:

• You do not have write access to the object.
• The object is at a released state and is not modifiable.
• The object is checked out by another user.

The locked symbol displays on the symbol next to the object indicating the object is locked for edit. As the source figure shows, in the Requirements pane in Word, the lock symbol displays next to the "Req1/A;1–Task Reqts" requirement (under "Spec1/A;1–Robot Reqts") indicating it is locked for edit because another user has it checked out.