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Creating All Text Drafts

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Gary Christensen
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Overview

An all text draft provides a draft of a section that includes all content, both active and inactive.  All inactive text will appear with a gray background, and all active text will have a white background. 

When printed or exported, a “DRAFT” watermark will appear on every page in gray. 

All Text Drafts include:

  • All paragraphs in a section will be included, including master, user, active and inactive.
  • Excluded paragraphs will be displayed when all text drafts are exported/printed.
  • All options for checkboxes and multiple choices will be shown when all text drafts are exported/printed.
  • Header/footer and images can also be printed as part of all text drafts.  
  • Paragraph levels will be reflected so that each paragraph appears as it does in the user's project, even if it is a master paragraph that has a different paragraph level in the actual master.
  • If a master paragraph has a user modification, only the version that is visible in the document pane in the user's project will be printed. (If toggled to “M,” the master version will be printed; if toggled to “M*,” the user version will be printed.)

Steps to Create an All Text Draft

Follow the steps below to create an All Text Draft:

  1. Access the Print Menu in one of the following ways:

    a. From the SpecLink Cloud Dashboard, using the options menu (3 dot icon) and clicking "Print Project" from the dropdown list. 

    Print_Menu_Dashboard_Dropdown.png

    b. By clicking the print icon on the Quick Access Toolbar from the Sections List within a project.

    Print_Menu_Dashboard_Icon.png

    c. By clicking the print icon from the SpecLink Cloud Toolbar from within a specification section.

    Locate_Print_Icon.png



  2. From the Print menu, choose Document Drafts as pictured below.

    print_menu_doc_drafts.png

  3. Select All Text Draft from the Type of Draft area.

    Select_All_Text_Draft.png

  4. Select an available section from the pull-down menu.

    Select_All_Text_Draft_Dropdown_List.png

  5. Review and select the appropriate desired options from the Advanced Settings area. 

  6. Click Print to create and open the PDF in another tab of your current browser, or click Export to generate and download a PDF or DOCX file to your specified downloads folder.

    print_menu_export_print.png

    Selecting Print creates and opens the PDF in another tab of your current browser.
    Selecting Export allows for the creation and download of a PDF or DOCX file to your specified downloads folder.

    doc_drafts_all_text_export_word.png

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    Andrew

    Is there a way to export an All Text Draft as a word file?

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    Gary Christensen

    Hi Andrew,

    Currently All Text Drafts are exported as PDF only.

    Thanks!

    Gary Christensen

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    Daman

    Hi Gary, Thank you for this article. By the way, the word "inactive" appears twice in the first line.

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    Gary Christensen

    Daman,

    Thanks! I've fixed that error.

    Also, All text drafts are available in both PDF and DOCX export formats.

    Thanks again,

    Gary Christensen

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