To customize the way Word displays your document, select options on the View tab (Tools menu, Options command). For example, you can display or hide items in your document (such as graphics, animated text, and field codes) or screen elements (such as scroll bars).

The options that are available on the View tab depend on which view you're in. For example, in page layout view and online layout view, you can speed up scrolling by hiding graphics and displaying picture placeholders instead.

For Normal and Outline Views

1. Draft Font (displays text in a 12-point sans serif font.)
2. Picture Placeholders (Displays an empty box for all pictures.)
3. Antimated Text (Displays the antimation on the screen. Turn off to see how antimated text prints on the screen.)
4. Screen Tips (Displays the name of the commenter and the comment when you place the mouse pointer over a comment reference mark.)
5. Highlight (Turns the colored highlighting feature on or off.)
6. Bookmarks (Shows square brackets around text marked with a bookmark.)
7. Field Codes (Displays field codes instead of field results.)
8. Field Shading drop-down list box (Sets shading for fields. The choices are Never, Always, and When Selected.)
9. Tab Characters (Displays tab characters as arrows à .)
10. Spaces (Displays spaces as dots.)
11. Paragraph Marks (Displays paragraph marks as the paragraph symbol & .)
12. Optional Hyphens (Displays optional hyphens as logical NOT symbols.)
13. Hidden Text (Displays hidden text, with dotted underlining.)
14. All (Displays all nonprinting characters)
15. Status Bar (Displays or hides the status bar.)
16. Style Area Width (Opens the style area and sets it width to up to half the window width.)
17. Horizontal Scroll Bar (Displays or hides the horizontal scroll bar.)
18. Vertical Scroll Bar (Displays or hides the vertical scroll bar.)
19. Wrap to Window (Wraps text lines at the right window border, regardless of paragraph width, making all text visible in the window.)

IN PAGE LAYOUT VIEW Only you will see these in addition to the above mentioned:

1. Drawings (Displays drawings when on.)
2. Object Anchors (Displays anchors for frames.)
3. Text Boundaries (Displays dotted boxes around the text areas of a page, main text, pictures, headers and footers, frames, footnote reference marks and annotation reference marks.)
4. Vertical Ruler (Displays a ruler on the left edge of the window. This option replaces Style Area Width option found on the Normal and Outline View tabs.)

IN ONLINE LAYOUT VIEW Only you will see this additional item:

1. Enlarge Fonts Less Than text box. (Enlarge fonts that area smaller than the size you set up in the text box.)

1. Background Repagination (Repaginates the document as you work.)
2. Help for WordPerfect Users (Reads WP keystrokes and displays a dialog box that tells you the Word commands and keystrokes that reproduce the WP actions.)
3. Navigation Keys for WordPerfect Users (Sets the functions of Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, and Escape keys to their WP equivalents.)
4. Blue Background White Text (Makes the window background blue and the text white, makes the window look like a MS Word for DOS window and a WP 5.1 DOS window.)
5. Provide Feedback with Sound (Turns on and off sounds for actions in Word.)
6. Provide Feedback with Antimation (Turns on and off animated mouse pointers and screen antimations for other actions, such as background saving and printing.)
7. Confirm Conversion at Open (Displays the Convert File dialog box when you open a file that is not a Word document.)
8. Update Automatic Links at Open (automatically updates OLE links when you open a document that contains them.)
9. Mail as Attachment (Inserts Word documents as attachments that appear as icons in a Mail message. Turn this option off to display Word documents as text in a message.)
10. Recently Used File List (Displays at the bottom of the file ment a list of filenames of documents most recently used in Word.)
11. Entries Sets the number of filenames listed at the bottom of the File menu. The maximum is 9.)
12. Macro Virus Protection (Turn on this check box to activate Word's built-in macro virus protection. When Word opens a template that contains macros, you see a warning message. Beware especially when someone sends you a document that has the DOT filename extrntion rather than the standard DOC filename extension.)
13. Measurement Units (Sets the unit of measure for dialog boxes and the ruler – inches, centimeters, points, or picas.)

1. Typing Replaces Selection (When on, typing deletes a selection when you type the first character. When off, typing inserts characters in front of the selection.)
2. Drag and Drop text editing (Turns on or off the ability to move or copy a selection by dragging it with the mouse.)
3. When Selecting, Automatically Select Entire Word
4. Use the INS Key for Paste
5. Overtype Mode
6. Use Smart Cut and Paste (Corrects the spacing, adds or removes spaces, when you cut or paste.)
7. Tabs and Backspace Set Left Indent
8. Allow Accented Uppercase in French (requires a French dictionary be installed)
9. Picture Editor Drop-Down List (Sets the picture editor that Word starts when you double-click on a picture in a document.)

1. Draft Output (Prints your document as quickly as possible – possibly without pictures, using monospace font.)
2. Update Fields (Updates fields in your document before printing.)
3. Update Links (Updates links to OLE objects before printing.)
4. Allow A4/Letter Paper Resizing (Turn off if you want Word to automatically adjust the paper size of a document set up for the standard paper size in another country to your country's standard paper size.)
5. Background Printing (Sends pages to the print spooler while you continue working on your document. Printing is slower, but you regain control of Word more quickly.)
6. Print PostScript Over Text (Usually for documents converted from Mac to allow PostScript to print on top of the text inside or behind it.)
7. Reverse Print Order (Prints the document from last page to first. This option makes printing extremely slow.)
8. Document Properties (Prints a page of information about the document based on information in the Properties dialog box.)
9. Field Codes (Prints field codes instead of field results.)
10. Comments (Prints annotation on separate pages after printing the document and includes the annotation reference marks in the text. Turning on this check box also turns on the Hidden Text check box.)
11. Hidden Text (Prints any hidden text in your document as regular text with a dotted underline.)
12. Drawing Objects (When off, Word hides drawing objects.)
13. Print Data Only For Forms (Prints only the data and not the structure or boilerplate text of a form.)
14. Default Tray drop-down list box (Selects the paper tray for this document only.)

1. Always Create Backup Copy
2. Allow Fast Saves (when on, Word uses the fast save feature, which saves only the changes in the document. When off, Word performs a full save every time. Full saves usually produce smaller files and make searching for files more accurate.)
3. Prompt for Document Properties
4. Prompt to Save Normal Template (when on, Word asks whether you want to save changes to the Normal template. When off, Word automatically saves all changes to the Normal template.)
5. Embed TrueType Fonts (Embeds in the document when it is saved any TrueType fonts that were used in the document. Embedded fonts can be displayed in the document on another system even if the system does not have the fonts installed.)
6. Embed Characters in Use Only (Embeds only those font styles actually used.)
7. Save Data Only for Forms (When on, saves only data filled in on a form. When off, the form is saved with the data in place.)
8. Allow Background Saves (When on, a document is saved in the background while you continue to work.)
9. Save AutoRecover Info Every (Turns on automatic saving. Allows you to recover lost work when you do not exit properly.)
10. Minutes (Sets the maximum time between saves from maximum 120 minutes to 0 minutes.)
11. Save Word Files As (lets you select the standard file format to save the documents. While Word 97 is the default, Word 6/95 is more commonly accepted when sharing files on or off campus.)
12. Password to Open (Lets you specify a password to open the file for read only. When you try to open the file, Word requests the password.)
13. Password to Modify (Lets you specify a password to permit saving an edited version of the file.)
14. Read-Only Recommended (Specifies that Word display a message box when the document is opened, recommending that the document be opened as read-only unless changes need to be saved and asking whether the document should be opened as read-only.)

1. Check Spelling As You Type (automatically checks your spelling as you type and underlines with a red sawtooth underline words not found in any active dictionaries.)
2. Hide Spellign Errors In This Document (hides the red sawtooth underlines Word uses to mark misspelled words. Turning on this check box doesn't affect automatic spelling checking, only the visibility of its markings in the document)
3. Always Suggest Corrections (When on, Word always lists suggestions for correcting words it doesn't recognize. When off, no suggestions appear in the Spelling dialog box.)
4. Suggest From Main Dictionary Only
5. Ignore Words in UPPERCASE
6. Ignore Words With Numbers
7. Ignore Internet And File Addresses
8. Custom Dictionary drop-down list box (Select the custom dictionary to which you want to add words during proofreading.)
9. Dictionaries (Displays the Custom Dictionaries dialog box with a list of your custom dictionaries.)
10. Check Grammar As You Type (Turn off if you do not want to automatically check grammar during proofreading.)
11. Hide Grammatical Errors In This Document (Turn off to hide the green sawtooth underlines for grammatical errors. Turning this off does not suspend automatic grammar checking.)
12. Check Grammar With Spelling (Tells Word to check the spelling in each sentence before checking the grammar to ensure that Word isn't trying to make grammatical and stylistic sense of a sentense that contains misspelled words.)
13. Show Readability Statistics
14. Writing Style drop-down list (Lists the names of the available sets of rules including Casual, Standard, Formal, Technical, and Custom.)
15. Settings (Displays the Grammar Settings dialog box.)
16. Check/Recheck Document (After changing options, click to check document again.)

1. Name Text Box (displays the name of the user.)
2. Initials Text Box (Displays the user's initials which Word uses as an identifier in annotation reference marks.)
3. Mailing Address Text Box (Displays the user's name and address. This information is the standard return address on envelopes.)