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You can also customize the default font that is used when you start a new document. The default font is changed for the current document and any newly-created documents. Toggle navigation. Free Word Training. You can use the Paste Options button to override or modify the settings you make in this section of the Word Options dialog box. Use smart cut and paste Select this option to automatically adjust formatting as you paste text.

After you select this check box, you can click Settings to set additional options for pasting. Settings Click this to open the Settings dialog box. Use this dialog box to specify default behavior when merging, cutting, and pasting text. You can override default behavior by using the Paste Options button that appears when you paste content from the Clipboard into your document. This button is available only when the Use smart cut and paste option is turned on.

Use default options for Click an item in the list to pre-select a configuration of options in the dialog box. To select your own configuration of options, click Custom in this list.

Adjust sentence and word spacing automatically Select this option to remove extra spaces when deleting text or add necessary spaces when pasting text from the clipboard. Adjust paragraph spacing on paste Select this option to prevent creating empty paragraphs and to prevent inconsistent paragraph spacing. Adjust table formatting and alignment on paste Select this option to control the formatting and alignment of tables. When this option is turned on, single cells are pasted as text, table portions are pasted as rows into an existing table rather than as a nested table , and when you add a table to an existing table, the pasted table is adjusted to match the existing table.

Smart style behavior Selecting this option has no effect. To fine-tune the behavior of styles when pasting content, use the Pasting options in the Cut, copy, and paste section of the Advanced options. Merge formatting when pasting from Microsoft PowerPoint Select this option to control the results when you paste content from a PowerPoint presentation. When this option is turned on, the formatting of the surrounding text or table is applied to the pasted text, the most recently used bullet, number, or list style is applied to the pasted list, and the look of items such as tables, hyperlinks, images, OLE objects, and shapes is preserved from the source in PowerPoint.

Adjust formatting when pasting from Microsoft Excel Select this option to control the results when pasting data from Excel. When this option is turned on, pasted data is placed in a table, and charts are pasted as pictures rather than as OLE objects. Merge pasted lists with surrounding lists Select this option to format list items to conform to the surrounding list when you are pasting the items into a list.

Image Size and Quality Select the document that these settings apply to. In the list, click the name of a document that is already open, or click All New Documents to make the setting apply to all documents that you will create. Discard editing data Select this option to save only the edited picture.

Data from the original picture, before it was edited, will be unavailable. Do not compress images in file Select this option to keep pictures at their full size. This option might make the document file size large. Set default target output to This option determines the resolution of compressed images. Select a value for pixels per inch ppi from the list. Show background colors and images in Print Layout view Select this option to display background colors and images.

Show text wrapped within the document window Select this option to wrap text to the document window, so that it is easier to read on the screen. Show picture placeholders Select this option to display an empty box in place of each picture in your documents.

This option speeds the process of scrolling through a document that contains a large number of pictures. Show drawings and text boxes on screen Select this option to display objects that are created with the Word drawing tools in Print Layout view or Web Layout view. Clear this check box to hide drawings and possibly speed the display of documents that contain many drawings.

Drawings will be printed even if you clear this check box. Show text animation Select this option to display text animations on your screen. Clear the check box to see how the text will look when printed.

Note: Use this option when viewing animated text in documents that were created in a version of Word earlier than Word The current version of Word no longer provides the ability to create animated text.

Show control characters Select this option to display right-to-left control characters. Show bookmarks Select this option to display bookmarks on the screen. If you assign a bookmark to an item, the bookmarked item appears in brackets […]. If you assign a bookmark to a location, the bookmark appears as an I-beam. The brackets and the I-beam do not appear in printed documents. Show text boundaries Select this option to display dotted lines around text margins, columns, and paragraphs.

The boundaries are for layout purposes; they do not appear in printed documents. Show crop marks Select this option to display the corners of the margins. Show field codes instead of their values Select this option to display field codes instead of field results in your documents. Clear this check box to view field results. Field shading This option displays whether and when fields are shaded.

In the list, select Always or When Selected to shade your fields. Shading fields makes them easy to identify. The shading appears on the screen but not in the printed document. Numeral This option determines how numerals will appear in documents. Select an item from the list. Arabic Select this option to display numerals in a format familiar to speakers of English and other European languages. Hindi Select this option to display numerals in a format familiar to speakers of Arabic and Hindi.

Context Select this option to display numerals according to the language of the surrounding text. System Select this option to display numerals according to the regional settings in Control Panel. Month names This option determines how Western Gregorian month names appear in Arabic text. Arabic Select this option to use Arabic native month names. English transliterated Select this option to spell out Western Gregorian month names in English pronunciation by using Arabic text.

French transliterated Select this option to spell out Western Gregorian month names in French pronunciation by using Arabic text.

Diacritics This option displays diacritics in the document. Use this color for diacritics Select this option to specify a color for display of all diacritics, regardless of the color of the diacritics in the original document. In the list, select a color. Use draft font in Draft and Outline views On computers with extremely limited resources, select this option to speed the screen display of documents.

Name Select the font to use for drafts of your documents. This option is available only when you select the Use draft font in Draft and Outline views check box. Size Select the point size of the draft font.

Document view This option specifies the text direction for new documents. Right-to-left Select this option to lay out documents right to left.

For example, paragraphs start on the right side of a document with text flowing to the left. Left-to-right Select this option to lay out documents left to right. For example, paragraphs start on the left side of a document with text flowing to the right. Font Substitution Click this to open the Font Substitution dialog box.

Use this option to determine whether the active document uses any fonts that are not available on your computer. If the document uses fonts that are not on your computer, you can use the dialog box to specify a substitute font.

Show this number of Recent Documents Enter the number of items, between 1 and 50, to display in the Recent Documents list. Note: Only the first nine files in the list are assigned an accelerator key.

Show measurements in units of Select the measurement unit that you want to use for the horizontal ruler and for measurements that you type in dialog boxes.

Style area pane width in Draft and Outline views Type a positive decimal, such as 0. To close the style area, enter 0. Show measurements in width of characters Select this option to use character width as the basis for aligning text, such as in the vertical and horizontal rulers. Show white space between pages in Print Layout view Select this option to display the top and bottom margins of the page, including the content of headers and footers.

Show highlighter marks Select this option to display highlighted text on the screen and in printed documents. Show document tooltips on hover Select this option to display information such as URLs and reviewers' comments in yellow pop-up boxes.

The ToolTips, also called ScreenTips, appear when you rest your mouse pointer on a hyperlink, comment reference mark, or similar content. Tab characters Select this option to display tab characters as arrows. Spaces Select this option to display spaces between words as dots. Paragraph marks Select this option to display the ends of paragraphs with the paragraph symbol.

Hidden text Select this option to display a dotted line under text that is formatted as hidden. Optional hyphens Select this option to display hyphens that indicate where to divide a word at the end of a line.

Optional hyphens are not printed unless a word actually breaks at the end of a line. When a word breaks at the end of the line, the optional hyphen is printed as a regular hyphen. Object anchors Select this option to display object anchors, which indicate that an object is attached to a specific paragraph. Optional breaks Select this option to control where a word or phrase breaks if it falls at the end of a line.

For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, see Description of the Microsoft Windows registry. This article describes various methods that you can use to reset user options and registry settings in Microsoft Office Word. When you troubleshoot unusual behavior in the program or a document, first determine whether the problem might be caused by formatting, options, or settings.

If the behavior occurs in multiple documents, we recommend that you try to reset Microsoft Word to the program's default settings. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved.

Modify the registry at your own risk. Always export a registry key before you delete it. This step is important because you may have to restore the functionality that's provided by the key. After you delete a registry key and restart the program, Word runs the Setup program to correctly rebuild the registry key. If you want to rebuild the registry key before you run the program, repair your installation by following the steps in Repair an Office application.

The Data and Options key are the most frequently changed areas. This key contains binary information for "most recently used" lists, including the most recently used file list and the most recently used address book list. This key also contains "Track Changes" settings and "Edit" settings. The options are in two groups: default options and optional settings. Default options are established during the setup process.

You can change them by modifying options in Word.