IEEE 802.22 DOCUMENT STYLE REQUIREMENTS:  

• Guidelines for Word
• Guidelines for Powerpoint
• Guidelines for Excel

All documents generated for and by the IEEE 802.22 Working Group will be published through a web-site.
Therefore, it is of prime importance that all documents adhere to the following rules.

Maintain a professional look
To give the 802.22 publications a professional look, a standardized header and footer is required.

File Format for IEEE 802.22 Documents
Microsoft Office 97 is the official document format for the IEEE 802.22 Working Group.
Acrobat .PDF files are used only for Working Group standard Draft documents.

The document format shall be:

Paper size: US letter (8.5"x11")

Margins: top margin: 0.6 ", bottom margin: 0.5 ", inner margin: 0.75", outer margin: 0.75", header and footer 0.3" from edge.

Each page shall have a header with the following attributes:

Font and size Times (New) Roman, Bold, 14 point for portrait oriented documents
Font and size Times (New) Roman, Bold, 18 point for landscape oriented documents (e.g. PowerPoint)
Line below, with 2 points separation from text
Left, aligned with margin: the month and year of the publication (the venue date)
Right aligned to the margin: the document designator, which includes the document number:

doc.: IEEE 802.22-yy/ssssrx

where:

yy are the last two digits of the year
ssss is the assigned sequence number of the document
x is the revision number

Each page shall have a footer with the following attributes:

Font and size Times (New) Roman, Normal, 12 point
Line above
Left, aligned with margin: the word "Submission"
Center: the word "page" followed by the page number
Right aligned to the margin: the first author and company (in the format: author_name, company).

Every document submission must have an author and company as a point of reference for the submission.

As a convenience, the following templates are available for Microsoft Office users:

• Word document in portrait format
• Word document in landscape format
• PowerPoint presentation
• Excel spreadsheet

For quick and easy document creation, place the template files in your template directory. The template location varies depending on the version of Microsoft Office. Typical locations are:

c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\

or

c:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\

If you are unsure of the location of the Microsoft Office template files on your system, follow these steps:

1. Launch Microsoft Word.
2. Menu select Tools, Options.
3. Click the File Locations tab and click the “User Templates” list box entry.
4. Click the Modify button to display the full text of the User Templates path.

5. Click the Cancel button.
6. Click the Close button.
7. Open the Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder path discovered in step 4.
8. Copy all the 802.22 template files to that directory.

To create a new submission, launch the preferred Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint or Excel), then menu select File, New, and select the appropriate 802.22 template file.

Follow the instructions provided within the template.

Alternatively you can place the 802.22 document templates on your desktop, then double-click the appropriate template icon to open the template. This alternate procedure is NOT recommended since then every time you create a new submission you must remember to save the resulting document under a different name and ensure that the resulting new document extension is changed from a template file to a document file.

Microsoft Office applications treat the opening of the template files differently from creating a new document based on the templates. The former is useful for editing the templates themselves, while the later creates a new document based on the template. When operating on a template file directly the Microsoft Office applications operate in a similar, but slightly different mode than when operating on a real document.

Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you find the correct location for the template files on your system and copy the 802.22 submission templates to that location. Then you can create a new submission at will, and you can just follow the instructions within the template.

To create a new 802.22 submission, menu select File, New, and select the appropriate 802.22 Word template file (portrait or landscape format).

Follow the instructions provided within the template.

Note: The header and footer are provided with "fields" that are automatically copied from the document properties section. Follow the instructions provided within the template for properly setting the document properties and then updating the header and footer from the document properties.

To create a new 802.22 submission, menu select File, New, and select the 802.22 PowerPoint template file.

Follow the instructions provided within the template.

Guidelines for using the Excel template for document submissions

Follow the instructions provided within the template.

Note: The header and footer are automatically updated by a macro whenever the spreadsheet is printed (or print-previewed).The macro copies the corresponding cells on the Title sheet to the header and footer "fields" of every sheet in the workbook.

Document numbers

CONTACT INFORMATION

Home Page of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee

Home Page of the IEEE 802.22 WRAN WG

IEEE 802 Chair: Paul Nikolich

IEEE 802 Working Group Chairs

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Last Update: 16 September, 2006

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