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This article describes the Compatibility Options that are available in Microsoft Word.
NOTE: To change the Compatibility Options, click Options on the Tools menu, and then click the Compatibility tab.
Displays fonts used in the active document that are not available on your system by using fonts that are available on your system.
Selects the word-processing program you want to set options for. Selected options affect only the display of the document while you work with it in Word. The document is not changed permanently.
Selects the options you want to appear in the active document. Selected options affect only the display of the document while you work with it in Word. The document is not changed permanently.
Available
Option in version Option Description
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Combine table borders 6.0 7.0 If a table contains two contiguous
like Word for cells whose border is formatted
the Macintosh 5.x differently, the left-most cell is
displayed with the border width of
the right-most cell.
Don't add automatic tab 6.0 7.0 Ignores the automatic tab stop
stop for hanging indent that Word 6.0 uses when creating a
hanging indent.
Don't add extra space 6.0 7.0 Prevents Word from inserting
for raised/lowered additional space between lines to
characters accommodate raised or lowered
characters.
Don't add leading 7.0 Displays text without leading
(extra space) between between the lines. This is the
rows of text same functionality that exists in
Word versions 5.x for the
Macintosh.
Don't add space for 7.0 Word doesn't add extra space for
underlines underlines.
Don't balance columns 6.0 7.0 Prevents Word from balancing
for continuous section columns at the end of a section or
starts document.
Don't balance Sbcs 7.0 Not used in U.S. English Word.
characters and Dbcs
characters
Don't blank the area 6.0 7.0 Prevents Word from obscuring any
behind metafile text or graphics surrounding an
pictures inserted metafile. Selecting this
option decreases editing speed.
Don't convert 7.0 Not used in U.S. English Word.
backslash characters
into yen signs
Don't draw underline 7.0 Not used in U.S. English Word.
on trailing spaces
Expand character 7.0 Justifies the line ending with
spaces on the line SHIFT+ENTER when the paragraph
ending SHIFT+RETURN is formatted as justified.
Expand/condense by 7.0 Rounds the measurement of the
whole number of points spacing for characters with
condensed or expanded spacing to
the nearest whole number.
Print body text before 7.0 Prints the main text layer before
header/footer the Header/Footer layer, which
allows for the process of
PostScript codes in the text layer
the same way Word 5.x for the
Macintosh does. (This
functionality is the reverse of
the default order.)
Print colors as black 6.0 7.0 Prints all colors as black,
on noncolor printers instead of using grayscale
(different shades of gray) when
you use a printer that does not
print color.
Show hard page or 6.0 7.0 If a frame contains a manual, or
column breaks in frames hard page break or column break,
Word displays it.
Substitute fonts based 7.0 Option used by the WordPerfect 6.x
on font size converter to make a font request
based on font size first, and if a
match is not found, to actually
map the font.
Suppress extra line 6.0 7.0 Prevents Word from adding extra
spacing at top of page line spacing at the top of a page.
If the line spacing for the line
at the top of a page is set for
more than single spacing, Word
ignores the extra spacing so that
the top margin will not increase.
Suppress extra line 7.0 Prevents Word from adding extra
spacing at the top of line spacing at the top of a page.
page like Word 5.x If the line spacing for the line
for the Macintosh at the top of a page is set for
more than single line spacing,
Word ignores the extra spacing so
that the top margin will not
increase.
Suppress extra line 7.0 This ensures that the layout of
spacing like WP 5.x converted WordPerfect documents
formatted with Automatic line
height closely matches that of the
original document.
Suppress space before 6.0 7.0 Word suppresses the space in a
after a hard page or paragraph formatted with the Space
column break Before option that follows a hard
page break or column break.
Swap left and right 6.0 7.0 If a paragraph has a left border
borders on odd facing (not a box) and the "Different
pages Odd/Even Headers" or "Mirror
Margins" check box is selected,
Word prints the border on the
right on odd numbered pages.
Treat \" as " " in 6.0 7.0 In a data source, converts a
mail merge data sources delimiter composed of a backslash
and quotation mark (\") to two
quotation marks (" "), so that
Word can recognize quotation
marks.
Truncate font height 7.0 Word rounds the font size up or
down as in WordPerfect 6.x for
Windows.
Use larger small caps 7.0 Applies small caps formatting in
like MacWord 5.x Word version 6.0 for the Macintosh
the same way as Word version 5.x
for the Macintosh, which produces
slightly larger smaller capital
letters.
Wrap Trailing Spaces 6.0 7.0 Automatically moves any spaces
To Next Line that trail into the margin after a
word at the end of a line to the
beginning of the next line.
Saves the compatibility options you selected as the new default in the active template. Word will display every new document based on the active template with the new compatibility options you select.
Keywords : kbdta wordnt winword ntword kblayout macword word6 word7 word95
Version : MACINTOSH:6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a; WINDOWS:6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a; winnt:6.0
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbinfoLast Reviewed: February 7, 1999