Microsoft KB Archive/166016

= WD97: Description of the Compatibility Tab in Options Dialog Box for Word 97 =

Article ID: 166016

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q166016



For a Microsoft Word 2002 version of this article, see 288792.

For a Microsoft Word 7.0 version of this article, see 192634.

For a Microsoft Word 98 version of this article, see 192635.



SUMMARY
This article describes the Compatibility options that are available in in the Options dialog box Microsoft Word 97 for Windows.

NOTE: To change the Compatibility Options, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Compatibility tab.



Font Substitution
Displays fonts used in the active document that are not available on your system by using fonts that are available on your system.

Recommended Options For
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.

Options
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.   Option                             Option Description

Combine table borders             If a table contains two contiguous like Word 5.x for                 cells whose border is formatted the Macintosh                     differently, the left-most cell is                                      displayed with the border width of                                      the right-most cell.

Do full justification             To achieve full justification, like WordPerfect 6.x              WordPerfect compresses the spaces for Windows                       between words while Word expands them. This often results in different line breaks and leads to different page breaks. To implement the WordPerfect justification method, select "Do full justification like                                     WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" in the Options list.

Don't add automatic tab           Ignores the automatic tab stop that stop for hanging indent           Word 6.0 uses when creating a hanging indent.

Don't add extra space             Prevents Word from inserting for raised/lowered                additional space between lines to   characters                         accommodate raised or lowered characters.

Don't add leading                 Displays text without leading between (extra space) between             the lines. This is the same rows of text                      functionality that exists in Word versions 5.x for the Macintosh.

Don't add space for               Word doesn't add extra space for underlines                        underlines.

Don't balance columns             Prevents Word from balancing for continuous section            columns at the end of a section or   starts                             document.

Don't balance SBCS                Not used in U.S. English Word. characters and DBCS characters

Don't blank the area              Prevents Word from obscuring any text behind metafile                   or graphics surrounding an inserted pictures                          metafile. Selecting this option decreases editing speed.

Don't center "exact               Changes the vertical position of text   line height" lines                 between the top of the line space and the bottom of the line space. With the option off, any extra space is split between the ascender and descender. With the option on, all the extra space goes to the descender.

Don't convert                     Not used in U.S. English Word. backslash characters into yen signs

Don't draw underline              Not used in U.S. English Word. on trailing spaces

Expand character                  Justifies the line ending with spaces on the line                SHIFT+ENTER when the paragraph ending SHIFT+RETURN               is formatted as justified.

Expand/condense by                Rounds the measurement of the whole number of points            spacing for characters with condensed or expanded spacing to                                     the nearest whole number.

Lines wrap like                   Not used in U.S. English Word. Word 6.0

Print body text before            Prints the main text layer before the header/footer                     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             Prints all colors as black, instead on noncolor printers              of using grayscale (different shades                                      of gray) when you use a printer that does not print color.

Set the width of a                WordPerfect calculates the width of a   space like WordPerfect 5.x         space in a proportional font differently than Word does. In the WordPerfect interface, this default word spacing is named WordPerfect Optimal. The Word 97 text converters can use the WordPerfect formula for spacing.

Show hard page or                 If a frame contains a manual, or hard column breaks in frames           page break or column break, Word displays it.

Substitute fonts based            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               WordPerfect suppresses any extra line spacing at bottom                 spacing from the last line on a page. of page                           For example, if line spacing is set to double, the final line on the page does not show White space below it. To implement the line-spacing feature, select "Suppress extra line                                     spacing at bottom of page" in the Options list.

Suppress extra line               Prevents Word from adding extra line spacing at top of page            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               Prevents Word from adding extra line spacing at the top of             spacing at the top of a page. If the page like Word 5.x                line spacing for the line at the top for the Macintosh                 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               This ensures that the layout of   spacing like WordPerfect 5.x       converted WordPerfect documents formatted with Automatic line height closely matches that of the original document.

Suppress space before             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               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                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              Word rounds the font size up or down as in WordPerfect 6.x for Windows.

Use larger small caps             Applies small caps formatting in Word like Word 5.x for the             version 6.0 for the Macintosh the Macintosh                         same way as Word version 5.x for the Macintosh, which produces slightly larger smaller capital letters.

Use printer metrics               If this option is enabled, Word will to lay out document               use the information from the printer driver that is installed as in some earlier versions of Word.

If this option is disabled (default), Word will use build-in metrics to lay out the document. This means your document will look the same no matter what printer driver is installed.

Use Word 6.x/95 Border            Word suppresses paragraph borders Rules                             when paragraph is intersected by                                      frames or wrapped drawing objects.

Wrap Trailing Spaces              Automatically moves any spaces that To Next Line                      trail into the margin after a word at                                      the end of a line to the beginning of                                      the next line.

Default
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: kbconversion kbfaq kbinterop KB166016

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