VBA – All Word Compatibility Options incl. Version Information

The list below is an extended list that includes the same information as the List of all 70 Word compatibility option names and the related VBA names + information about which Word version(s) the individual compatibility options apply to.

The 4 right-most columns show in which versions of Word the option in question is found. An X in a column means that the option is found in that version of Word. As you can see from the list:

Word 2003, 2007, and 2010 share most of the compatibility options but there are differences
Word 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Word for Microsoft 365 share the same, few options

In cases where the same option has been renamed between Word versions, the old name is shown in parentheses below the new name, incl. information about to which Word version(s) the old name applies.

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No.	Compatibility option US	Value	VBA – WdCompatibility Enumeration	Word 2003	Word 2007	Word 2010	Word 2013 2016 2019 2021 365
1	Add space for underlines	21	wdNoSpaceForUL NOTE: False = ON, True = OFF (except Word 2007)	X	X	X	X
2	Adjust line height to grid height in the table	36	wdDontAdjustLineHeightInTable NOTE: False = ON, True = OFF (except Word 2007)	X	X	X	X
3	Align table rows independently	39	wdAlignTablesRowByRow	X	X	X
4	Allow hyphenation between pages or columns	71	wdAllowHyphenationAtTrackBottom				X
5	Allow space between paragraphs of the same style in a table	54	wdAllowSpaceOfSameStyleInTable		X	X
6	Allow table rows to lay out apart	41	wdLayoutTableRowsApart	X	X	X
7	Allow tables to extend into margins	50	wdGrowAutofit	X	X	X
8	Auto space the way Word 95 does (Word 2003: Auto space like Word 95)	38	wdAutospaceLikeWW7	X	X	X
9	Balance SBCS characters and DBCS characters	16	wdDontBalanceSingleByteDoubleByteWidth NOTE: False = ON, True = OFF (except Word 2007)	X	X	X	X
10	Combine table borders the way Word 5.x for the Macintosh does	9	wdOrigWordTableRules	X	X	X
11	Convert backslash characters into yen signs	13	wdLeaveBackslashAlone NOTE: False = ON, True = OFF (except Word 2007)	X	X	X	X
12	Disable OpenType Font Formatting Features	66	wdDisableOTKerning			X
13	Do full justification the way WordPerfect 6.x for Windows does	31	wdWPJustification	X	X	X
14	Don’t add automatic tab stop for hanging indent	1	wdNoTabHangIndent	X	X	X
15	Don’t add extra space for raised/lowered characters	2	wdNoSpaceRaiseLower	X	X	X
16	Don’t add leading (extra space) between rows of text	20	wdNoLeading	X	X	X
17	Don’t allow hanging punctuation with character grid	47	wdDontWrapTextWithPunctuation	X	X	X
18	Don’t autofit tables next to wrapped objects	56	wdDontAutofitConstrainedTables		X	X
19	Don’t balance columns at the start of Continuous sections	5	wdNoColumnBalance	X	X	X
20	Don’t blank the area behind metafile pictures	10	wdTransparentMetafiles	X
21	Don’t break constrained tables forced onto the page	62	wdDontBreakConstrainedForcedTables		X	X
22	Don’t break wrapped tables across pages	43	wdDontBreakWrappedTables	X	X	X
23	Don't center "exact line height" lines	28	wdExactOnTop	X	X	X	X
24	Don't expand character spaces on a line that ends with SHIFT+RETURN	14	wdExpandShiftReturn NOTE: False = ON, True = OFF (except Word 2007)	X	X	X	X
25	Don’t snap text to grid inside table with inline objects	44	wdDontSnapTextToGridInTableWithObjects	X	X	X
26	Don’t use Asian rules for line breaks with character grid	48	wdDontUseAsianBreakRulesInGrid	X	X	X
27	Don’t use hanging indent as tab stop for bullets and numbering	52	wdDontUseIndentAsNumberingTabStop		X	X
28	Don't use HTML paragraph auto spacing	35	wdDontUseHTMLParagraphAutoSpacing	X	X	X	X
29	Don’t use proportional width for Korean characters	59	wdHangulWidthLikeWW11		X	X
30	Don’t vertically align inside of textboxes	63	wdDontVertAlignInTextbox		X	X
31	Don’t vertically align table cells containing shapes	61	wdDontVertAlignCellWithShape		X	X
32	Draw underline on trailing spaces	15	wdDontULTrailSpace NOTE: False = ON, True = OFF (except Word 2007)	X	X	X	X
33	Expand/condense by whole number of points	18	wdSpacingInWholePoints	X	X	X
34	Forget last tab alignment	37	wdForgetLastTabAlignment	X	X	X
35	Lay out AutoShapes the way Word 97 does	33	wdShapeLayoutLikeWW8	X	X	X
36	Lay out footnotes the way Word 6.x/95/97 does	34	wdFootnoteLayoutLikeWW8	X	X	X
37	Lay out tables with raw width	40	wdLayoutRawTableWidth	X	X	X
38	Print body text before header/footer	19	wdPrintBodyTextBeforeHeader	X	X	X
39	Print colors as black on noncolor printers	3	wdPrintColBlack	X	X	X
40	Select entire field with first or last character	45	wdSelectFieldWithFirstOrLastCharacter	X	X	X
41	Set the width of a space like WordPerfect 5.x	30	wdWPSpaceWidth	X
42	Show hard page or column breaks in frames	11	wdShowBreaksInFrames	X	X	X
43	Split apart page break and paragraph mark	60	wdSplitPgBreakAndParaMark		X	X
44	Substitute fonts based on font size	25	wdSubFontBySize	X	X	X
45	Suppress extra line spacing at bottom of page	29	wdSuppressBottomSpacing	X	X	X	X
46	Suppress extra line spacing at top of page	8	wdSuppressTopSpacing	X	X	X	X
47	Suppress extra line spacing at top of page the way Word 5.x for the Macintosh does (Word 2003: Suppress extra line spacing at top of page like Word 5.x for the Mac)	17	wdSuppressTopSpacingMac5	X	X	X
48	Suppress extra line spacing the way WordPerfect 5.x does (Word 2003: Suppress extra line spacing like WordPerfect 5.x)	23	wdNoExtraLineSpacing	X	X	X
49	Suppress Space Before after a hard page or column break	7	wdSuppressSpBfAfterPgBrk	X	X	X
50	Swap inside and outside mirror indents and relative positioning	67	wdFlipMirrorIndents			X
51	Swap left and right borders on odd facing pages	12	wdSwapBordersFacingPages	X	X	X
52	Treat \* as ** in mail merge data sources	6	wdConvMailMergeEsc	X	X	X
53	Truncate font height	24	wdTruncateFontHeight	X	X	X
54	Underline tab character in numbered lists	58	wdUnderlineTabInNumList		X	X
55	Use cached paragraph information for column balancing	65	wdCachedColBalance		X	X
56	Use larger small caps the way Word 5.x for the Macintosh does	22	wdMWSmallCaps	X	X	X
57	Use line-breaking rules	46	wdApplyBreakingRules	X	X	X	X
58	Use Normal style for bulleted and numbered lists	51	wdUseNormalStyleForList		X	X
59	Use printer metrics to lay out document	26	wdUsePrinterMetrics	X	X	X
60	Use Word 2002 table style rules	49	wdUseWord2002TableStyleRules	X	X	X
61	Use Word 2002-2007 style evaluation rules for font size and paragraph justification in tables	68	wdDontOverrideTableStyleFontSzAndJustification			X
62	Use Word 2003 hanging-punctuation rules	53	wdFELineBreak11		X	X
63	Use Word 2003 indent rules for text next to wrapped objects	55	wdWW11IndentRules		X	X
64	Use Word 2003 kerning pair rules	64	wdWord11KerningPairs		X	X
65	Use Word 2013 rules for hyphenation between pages and columns	72	wdUseWord2013TrackBottomHyphenation				X
66	Use Word 2003 table autofit rules	57	wdAutofitLikeWW11		X	X
67	Use Word 6.x/95 border rules	27	wdWW6BorderRules	X	X	X
68	Use Word 97 line-breaking rules for Asian text	42	wdUseWord97LineBreakingRules	X	X	X
69	Wrap lines the way Word 6.0 does (Word 2003: Lines wrap like Word 6.0)	32	wdLineWrapLikeWord6	X	X	X
70	Wrap trailing spaces to next line	4	wdWrapTrailSpaces	X	X	X

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