Use Table H.1 when determining which style to use for various elements of the deliverable.

  Other styles exist in the template, but are for use by the Support Team only.

The skeleton document supplies fields for automatic page numbering and the identification of the deliverable in the page header. Do not add anything to or delete anything from the headers.

• Use the HEADER style on all page headers (sections) except for the title page (section)

Set your Windows environment to use the English (International) conventions (via Control Panel, International).

• Use centimetres as the preferred unit of measurement.
• Do not select "Change 'Straight Quotes' to 'Smart Quotes'" in the AutoCorrect options.
• Set Default Tab Stops to 0,5 cm.
• The remaining configurable elements of Windows and of Word are at your discretion.

During the drafting of a TS or TR, you may use sequence numbering (Insert Field Seq) for tables, figures, equations, references, etc. Use the sequence identifiers shown in the following table.

  Thus the title of a table will read: where the italic part represents the sequence field code. Bookmark each entry in a sequence (select it and use Edit Bookmark Add), using a bookmark name of the form shown in table H2. You can then refer to the table, figure, reference, etc. from the text by inserting a sequence field citing the same sequence identifier and the particular bookmark required. For example, table 1 has been bookmarked "tab_Seq_Num". Thus a reference to this table from the text reads: … see table { seq tab tab_Seq_Num } … where the italic part represents the sequence field code. You can force Word to recalculate and refresh the display of sequence numbers and their references by selecting the text and pressing F9. Do not use Word's cross-referencing tool (Insert, Cross-reference), since it implies the use of automatic heading or caption numbering. When drafting is complete and the TS or TR is ready to be presented to the TSG for placing under change control, hard code all automatic number sequences (Ctrl-Shift-F9) that might have been used. Thereafter, manual numbering shall be used. This will avoid invalidating references from external documents to particular clauses / tables / etc. in the document under consideration (see clause 5.2.1A). You may use automatic clause numbering during the drafting phase of a TS or TR, but automatic clause numbering shall be disabled for a TS or TR under change control.

Software tools to be used for document development within 3GPP are detailed in Table H.3

  The file formats stipulated in Table H.3 relating to Microsoft© Office refer strictly to the file format. It is not intended to mandate that a particular version of MS Office or MS Office compatible software be used: any word processor which can save files in the above format is acceptable. Rapporteurs shall retain the source files of graphics where these exist, and they shall be retained within the zip file of the Spec for future maintenance of the document.

When working with your 3GPP TS or 3GPP TR remember… … you shall do this…

• use bold to emphasize text;
• use italic for citations, linguistic expressions or when a word/text/expression is extracted from a specific context;
• use non-breaking spaces (°) or hyphens (‑) in order to avoid unexpected wrap around between two words and/or numbers (e.g. 50°cm, 1°000, clause°6, annex°A, table°1, figure°1, TR°21°801‑1, etc.). These characters appear as normal spaces ( ) or hyphens (-) when printed out;
• use the default tab stops 0,5 cm;
• use "straight" quotation marks (". . .") not "curly" or "smart" (". . .") ones. If a second set of quotations is needed (e.g. GDMO, ASN.1, etc.), single quotes ('. . .') may be used.

… but you shall not do this…

• alter existing styles or formats pre-set in the 3GPP template;
• add new styles to the 3GPP template;
• delete 3GPP styles;
• use a font other than the one pre-set in the 3GPP styles;
• put more than one space after a full stop;
• precede comma (,), semicolon (;), colon (:), full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!) by spaces;
• use spaces in place of tabs when indentation/alignment is required; this can cause text to be misaligned;
• use footnotes or end-notes;
• unnecessarily use capital letters;
• use underlining to emphasize text (this can be confused with revision marking; see also clause H.7.1).
• use "curly" or "smart" (". . .") quotes.