Element properties reference by output format

Document-style report might generate the same way in different output formats. Review this reference information to select a IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing output type before you start to design your template.

Table 1. Selecting an output type based on the template contents.
If your template includes these elements or items, consider using the respective output types.
Template element or consideration	Microsoft Word	Microsoft Excel	HTML	PDF	XSL-FO
Master pages	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Style sheets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Footnotes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Comments	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Paragraph borders	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes*	Yes
Table with unrestricted width	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Table cells combined by span element	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Table cells that contain bookmarks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Table borders	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes*	Yes
Cell spacing in tables	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Ordered lists with character spacing	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Ordered lists with lowercase letters or Roman numerals	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ordered lists with capitalized letters	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Multiple document-style reports or sheets	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Table of Contents, Table of Tables, Table of Figures	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Large images	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes*	Yes
Generates a document-style report with more than 4000 pages	Yes	N/A	Yes	No	Yes

Note: *For these output types, you must specify values for the output to render correctly.