The closest I can get is to Alt+F9 (view field codes). But maybe someone in the Answers forum does.
I don’t know of any way to recreate “select entire field code with first or last character”, unfortunately. Why are they taking steps backward? (I know, it’s not your call – but maybe they’ll see comments like these and get the message that users are unhappy.) Of the latest versions, 2010 seemed to be the best. I can no longer customize Word as I used to – and I don’t consider myself a “power user”. I’m finding Word 2013 very frustrating b/c it appears to be “dumbed down”. Is there any way to recreate the “select entire field code with first or last character”? “Floaing” graphics were, if I recall correctly, introduced in Office 97 and have never been displayed in Draft view. But please note that, if you’re working in Draft view, “floating” graphics will not appear. You want to make sure the “picture placehoders” is NOT activated and “Show drawings and text boxes on-screen” is. Under File/Options/Advanced, section “Show document content” are the options for graphics.
You should be able to see manual line breaks (Shift + Enter) by activating “Show all formatting marks” in Options/Displayģ.
Sorry about the late response – WordPress hasn’t been notifying me about new comments…Ģ. Now–thank you, thank you–I see that I can still create all new docs in word 2003 and it will keep all 3 of the list above even though it is executed thru word 2013. IMHO, it is still the best Word they ever created. I kept Word 20013 until they stopped supporting it. No way to view manual line breaks (WTF?) 3. It will NOT default to this unless I change my registry (I did) 2. I am forever grateful – I not only can not stand the loss of the “compatibility for” (WHY would they ever get rid of this?) I despise Word 2013’s draft view – 1. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.ġ7 Responses to “Word 2013: Where are the layout options?” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. The only solution is to retain Compatibiliy Mode, as described above.įebruat 19:09 and is filed under Word 2013. At this point, any text that was positioned at such a tab stop is moved to a new line, as shown in the next screen shot. If you open a document from an older version of Word the tab stops are respected and you can tab to them until the document is saved in such a way as to remove “Compatibility Mode” from the title bar. But that is not the case – the list of options simply disappears when that entry is selected.)Ī related problem is how Word 2013 deals with tab stops positioned in the right margin. A Word 2013 document doesn’t allow or honour tab stops positioned in the right margin unless they’re in a table. (The dropdown list “Compatibility Options for” contains an entry “All New documents” giving the impression that you could somehow use this, starting from a document in “Compatibility Mode” in order to get to these options and set some as a default.
Now you can use full list of the Layout options. You can save a Word 2013 document to the Word 97-2003 file format (which will enable the options) and then save it to *.docx, being careful to retain compatibility mode with older versions.Start with a document or template created in an older version of Word OR.If you need to use the old layout options in Word 2013 you can either There are only the seven “Layout options” and nothing in “Compatibility options” You’d think perhaps you could somehow scroll down, but you can’t. Here’s how the same dialog looks in 2013. If you try to apply one, you get Run-time error 6313 “One of the values passed to this property or method is out of range for this file format.” They also aren’t available through the object model. In Word 2013, if you create a new document from a 2013 version of Normal.dotm, you get a greatly reduced list of compatibility layout options and no possibility to work with the old ones.
(This option adds “Space Before” and “Space After” settings, rather than applying just one of the settings.) Or, if you’re interested in only one setting, such as the bottommost “Don’t use HTML paragraph autospacing”, you just check that box. Changing the selection in “Lay out this document as if created in:” will change numerous settings to emulate the layout used in the selected version. The following screen shot shows part of the options list for Word 2010. The user can activate/de-activate these for each document individually, or as a group. For this reason, and for backwards compatibility, all the accumulated changes have been kept as growing list of “compatibility layout options”. Depending on what you do, you may like the new or prefer the old. The way Word lays out a page has changed with almost every version.