Microsoft KB Archive/192634

= WD: Description of the Compatibility Tab in Options Dialog Box for Word 7.0 =

Article ID: 192634

Article Last Modified on 9/5/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q192634



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

For a Microsoft Word 97 version of this article, see 166016.

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



SUMMARY
This article describes the Compatibility options that are available in Microsoft Word 7.0.

NOTE: To change the Compatibility options, click Options on the Tools menu, 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.                            Available Option                  in version   Option Description

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.

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: kbinfo kblayout KB192634

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