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Bell\nfor use in CS 440\nat the\nUniversity of Illinois Chicago\nSeptember 2013\nHow to Use This Document\nThis document is intended as a sample template that can be copied and edited to suit a particular software engineering project.  It was assembled from a combination of documents \u0003\u0013 CITATION Rob \\l 1033  \u0014[1]\u0015\u0004,  \u0003\u0013 CITATION Sil13 \\l 1033 \u0014[2]\u0015\u0004, and \u0003\u0013 CITATION Bel12 \\l 1033 \u0014[3]\u0015\u0004.\nStyles\nThis document was written in Microsoft Word, and makes heavy use of styles.  The styles dialog is initially located on the menu bar under the “Home” tab in MS Word.  It is recommended that the styles dialog be pulled off into a separate window when working on formatting of the document.  If each paragraph is assigned a style, then modifying that particular style will affect all paragraphs in the document having the same style.\nThe table of contents uses the document headings and sub-headings to automatically generate table of contents information.\nTracking Changes and Multiple Authors\nThe “Review” tab in MS Word contains several tools that are of particular use when editing large documents, particularly when multiple authors are involved:\nThe “Tracking” section allows you to track the ( proposed ) changes to a document, and to step through each proposed change to either accept or reject the proposed changes.\nThe “Compare” section allows you to merge changes proposed by different authors, ( which will be marked in separate colors for identification ), and then to use the change tracking tools described above to accept or deny each change.\nThe recommended procedure is to start with each author having a copy of a base document, ( possibly this template. )  Then each author changes the section(s) they are responsible for, and submits their changed version to one person who acts as the overall document editor.  This author merges the changes, selectively accepts or rejects each change, and then distributes a new base document to all authors for the next round of changes.  It is also possible to merge the changes and then distribute the document, so that all authors can review the proposed changes.  ( The latter approach may be appropriate for documents such as bylaws, in which the changes must be approved by a committee or a vote before they can be accepted. )\nDealing With Material that is Unwanted ( Right Now )\nMuch of this document includes material that is not needed for every project, and/or which may not have been written yet, and so should be removed before printing or distributing the document.  There are several ways to do this, however each has their drawbacks:\nDelete the material completely.  The drawback is that now it is completely gone, and the only way to get it back is to copy it from some other document, if that is even available.\nChange the font to \"Hidden\".  The drawback is that this does not affect the numbering of sections, either in the text or in the table of contents.  However the original style information is retained, so when the text is unhidden, individual paragraphs do not need to be restyled.\nChange the style to \"Hidden\".  This does cause the document to renumber properly, ( because the paragraphs are no longer numbered paragraphs ), but all the original style information is gone, so if it is unhidden later, then all the styles of all the unhidden paragraphs will have to be restored manually.\nMove the text, say to the end of the document, and then do not print or distribute the material at the end of the document.  If this is all that is done, then this material will continue to appear in the table of contents.  However if the font is also changed to \"hidden\", then the material will not appear in the TOC, but all the original style information will be retained.  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