<settings> (Document Settings)

This element specifies the settings that are applied to a WordprocessingML document. This element is the root element of the Document Settings part in a WordprocessingML document.

example:
<w:settings>
  <w:defaultTabStop w:val="720" />
  <w:characterSpacingControl w:val="dontCompress" />
</w:settings>

The <settings> element contains all of the settings for this document. In this case, the two settings applied are automatic tab stop increments of 0.5" using the <defaultTabStop> element, and no character level whitespace compression using the <characterSpacingControl> element. ]

Parent Elements

Root element of WordprocessingML Document Settings part

Child Elements

Subclause

<activeWritingStyle> (Grammar Checking Settings)

§2.15.1.1

<alignBordersAndEdges> (Align Paragraph and Table Borders with Page Border)

§2.15.1.2

<alwaysMergeEmptyNamespace> (Do Not Mark Custom XML Elements With No Namespace As Invalid)

§2.15.1.3

<alwaysShowPlaceholderText> (Use Custom XML Element Names as Default Placeholder Text)

§2.15.1.4

<attachedSchema> (Attached Custom XML Schema)

§2.15.1.5

<attachedTemplate> (Attached Document Template)

§2.15.1.6

<autoFormatOverride> (Allow Automatic Formatting to Override Formatting Protection Settings)

§2.15.1.9

<autoHyphenation> (Automatically Hyphenate Document Contents When Displayed)

§2.15.1.10

<bookFoldPrinting> (Book Fold Printing)

§2.15.1.11

<bookFoldPrintingSheets> (Number of Pages Per Booklet)

§2.15.1.12

<bookFoldRevPrinting> (Reverse Book Fold Printing)

§2.15.1.13

<bordersDoNotSurroundFooter> (Page Border Excludes Footer)

§2.15.1.14

<bordersDoNotSurroundHeader> (Page Border Excludes Header)

§2.15.1.15

<captions> (Caption Settings)

§2.15.1.17

<characterSpacingControl> (Character-Level Whitespace Compression)

§2.15.1.18

<clickAndTypeStyle> (Paragraph Style Applied to Automatically Generated Paragraphs)

§2.15.1.19

<clrSchemeMapping> (Theme Color Mappings)

§2.15.1.20

<compat> (Compatibility Settings)

§2.15.3.9

<consecutiveHyphenLimit> (Maximum Number of Consecutively Hyphenated Lines)

§2.15.1.21

<decimalSymbol> (Radix Point for Field Code Evaluation)

§2.15.1.22

<defaultTableStyle> (Default Table Style for Newly Inserted Tables)

§2.15.1.23

<defaultTabStop> (Distance Between Automatic Tab Stops)

§2.15.1.24

<displayBackgroundShape> (Display Background Objects When Displaying Document)

§2.15.1.25

<displayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> (Distance between Horizontal Gridlines)

§2.15.1.26

<displayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> (Distance between Vertical Gridlines)

§2.15.1.27

<documentProtection> (Document Editing Restrictions)

§2.15.1.28

<documentType> (Document Classification)

§2.15.1.29

<docVars> (Document Variables)

§2.15.1.31

<doNotAutoCompressPictures> (Do Not Automatically Compress Images)

§2.15.1.32

<doNotDemarcateInvalidXml> (Do Not Show Visual Indicator For Invalid Custom XML Markup)

§2.15.1.33

<doNotDisplayPageBoundaries> (Do Not Display Visual Boundary For Header/Footer or Between Pages)

§2.15.1.34

<doNotEmbedSmartTags> (Remove Smart Tags When Saving)

§2.15.1.35

<doNotHyphenateCaps> (Do Not Hyphenate Words in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS)

§2.15.1.36

<doNotIncludeSubdocsInStats> (Do Not Include Content in Text Boxes, Footnotes, and Endnotes in Document Statistics)

§2.15.1.37

<doNotShadeFormData> (Do Not Show Visual Indicator For Form Fields)

§2.15.1.38

<doNotTrackFormatting> (Do Not Track Formatting Revisions When Tracking Revisions)

§2.15.1.39

<doNotTrackMoves> (Do Not Use Move Syntax When Tracking Revisions)

§2.15.1.40

<doNotUseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin> (Do Not Use Margins for Drawing Grid Origin)

§2.15.1.41

<doNotValidateAgainstSchema> (Do Not Validate Custom XML Markup Against Schemas)

§2.15.1.42

<drawingGridHorizontalOrigin> (Drawing Grid Horizontal Origin Point)

§2.15.1.43

<drawingGridHorizontalSpacing> (Drawing Grid Horizontal Grid Unit Size)

§2.15.1.44

<drawingGridVerticalOrigin> (Drawing Grid Vertical Origin Point)

§2.15.1.45

<drawingGridVerticalSpacing> (Drawing Grid Vertical Grid Unit Size)

§2.15.1.46

<embedSystemFonts> (Embed Common System Fonts)

§2.8.2.7

<embedTrueTypeFonts> (Embed TrueType Fonts)

§2.8.2.8

<endnotePr> (Document-Wide Endnote Properties)

§2.11.4

<evenAndOddHeaders> (Different Even/Odd Page Headers and Footers)

§2.10.1

<footnotePr> (Document-Wide Footnote Properties)

§2.11.11

<forceUpgrade> (Upgrade Document on Open)

§2.15.1.47

<formsDesign> (Structured Document Tag Placeholder Text Should be Resaved)

§2.15.1.48

<gutterAtTop> (Position Gutter At Top of Page)

§2.15.1.49

<hdrShapeDefaults> (Default Properties for VML Objects in Header and Footer)

§2.15.1.50

<hideGrammaticalErrors> (Do Not Display Visual Indication of Grammatical Errors)

§2.15.1.51

<hideSpellingErrors> (Do Not Display Visual Indication of Spelling Errors)

§2.15.1.52

<hyphenationZone> (Hyphenation Zone)

§2.15.1.53

<ignoreMixedContent> (Ignore Mixed Content When Validating Custom XML Markup)

§2.15.1.54

<linkStyles> (Automatically Update Styles From Document Template)

§2.15.1.55

<listSeparator> (List Separator for Field Code Evaluation)

§2.15.1.56

<mailMerge> (Mail Merge Settings)

§2.14.20

<mathPr> (Math Properties)

§7.1.2.62

<mirrorMargins> (Mirror Page Margins)

§2.15.1.57

<noLineBreaksAfter> (Custom Set of Characters Which Cannot End a Line)

§2.15.1.58

<noLineBreaksBefore> (Custom Set Of Characters Which Cannot Begin A Line)

§2.15.1.59

<noPunctuationKerning> (Never Kern Punctuation Characters)

§2.15.1.60

<printFormsData> (Only Print Form Field Content)

§2.15.1.61

<printFractionalCharacterWidth> (Print Fractional Character Widths)

§2.15.1.62

<printPostScriptOverText> (Print PostScript Codes With Document Text)

§2.15.1.63

<printTwoOnOne> (Print Two Pages Per Sheet)

§2.15.1.64

<proofState> (Spelling and Grammatical Checking State)

§2.15.1.65

<readModeInkLockDown> (Freeze Document Layout)

§2.15.1.66

<removeDateAndTime> (Remove Date and Time from Annotations)

§2.15.1.67

<removePersonalInformation> (Remove Personal Information from Document Properties)

§2.15.1.68

<revisionView> (Visibility of Annotation Types)

§2.15.1.69

<rsids> (Listing of All Revision Save ID Values)

§2.15.1.72

<saveFormsData> (Only Save Form Field Content)

§2.15.1.73

<saveInvalidXml> (Allow Saving Document As XML File When Custom XML Markup Is Invalid)

§2.15.1.74

<savePreviewPicture> (Generate Thumbnail For Document On Save)

§2.15.1.75

<saveSubsetFonts> (Subset Fonts When Embedding)

§2.8.2.15

<saveThroughXslt> (Custom XSL Transform To Use When Saving As XML File)

§2.15.1.76

<saveXmlDataOnly> (Only Save Custom XML Markup)

§2.15.1.77

<schemaLibrary> (Embedded Custom XML Schema Supplementary Data)

§8.2.2

<shapeDefaults> (Default Properties for VML Objects in Main Document)

§2.15.1.79

<showEnvelope> (Show E-Mail Message Header)

§2.15.1.80

<showXMLTags> (Show Visual Indicators for Custom XML Markup Start/End Locations)

§2.15.1.81

<smartTagType> (Supplementary Smart Tag Information)

§2.15.1.82

<strictFirstAndLastChars> (Use Strict Kinsoku Rules for Japanese Text)

§2.15.1.83

<styleLockQFSet> (Prevent Replacement of Styles Part)

§2.15.1.84

<styleLockTheme> (Prevent Modification of Themes Part)

§2.15.1.85

<stylePaneFormatFilter> (Suggested Filtering for List of Document Styles)

§2.15.1.86

<stylePaneSortMethod> (Suggested Sorting for List of Document Styles)

§2.15.1.87

<summaryLength> (Percentage of Document to Use When Generating Summary)

§2.15.1.88

<themeFontLang> (Theme Font Languages)

§2.15.1.89

<trackRevisions> (Track Revisions to Document)

§2.15.1.90

<uiCompat97To2003> (Disable Features Incompatible With Earlier Word Processing Formats)

§2.15.3.54

<updateFields> (Automatically Recalculate Fields on Open)

§2.15.1.91

<useXSLTWhenSaving> (Save Document as XML File through Custom XSL Transform)

§2.15.1.92

<view> (Document View Setting)

§2.15.1.93

<writeProtection> (Write Protection)

§2.15.1.94

<zoom> (Magnification Setting)

§2.15.1.95

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_Settings">
	<sequence>
	<element name="writeProtection" type="CT_WriteProtection" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="view" type="CT_View" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="zoom" type="CT_Zoom" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="removePersonalInformation" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="removeDateAndTime" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotDisplayPageBoundaries" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="displayBackgroundShape" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="printPostScriptOverText" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="printFractionalCharacterWidth" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="printFormsData" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="embedTrueTypeFonts" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="embedSystemFonts" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="saveSubsetFonts" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="saveFormsData" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="mirrorMargins" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="alignBordersAndEdges" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="bordersDoNotSurroundHeader" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="bordersDoNotSurroundFooter" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="gutterAtTop" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="hideSpellingErrors" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="hideGrammaticalErrors" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="activeWritingStyle" type="CT_WritingStyle" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
	<element name="proofState" type="CT_Proof" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="formsDesign" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="attachedTemplate" type="CT_Rel" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="linkStyles" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="stylePaneFormatFilter" type="CT_ShortHexNumber" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="stylePaneSortMethod" type="CT_ShortHexNumber" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="documentType" type="CT_DocType" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="mailMerge" type="CT_MailMerge" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="revisionView" type="CT_TrackChangesView" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="trackRevisions" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotTrackMoves" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotTrackFormatting" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="documentProtection" type="CT_DocProtect" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="autoFormatOverride" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="styleLockTheme" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="styleLockQFSet" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="defaultTabStop" type="CT_TwipsMeasure" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="autoHyphenation" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="consecutiveHyphenLimit" type="CT_DecimalNumber" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="hyphenationZone" type="CT_TwipsMeasure" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotHyphenateCaps" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="showEnvelope" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="summaryLength" type="CT_DecimalNumber" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="clickAndTypeStyle" type="CT_String" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="defaultTableStyle" type="CT_String" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="evenAndOddHeaders" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="bookFoldRevPrinting" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="bookFoldPrinting" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="bookFoldPrintingSheets" type="CT_DecimalNumber" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="drawingGridHorizontalSpacing" type="CT_TwipsMeasure" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="drawingGridVerticalSpacing" type="CT_TwipsMeasure" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="displayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery" type="CT_DecimalNumber" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="displayVerticalDrawingGridEvery" type="CT_DecimalNumber" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotUseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="drawingGridHorizontalOrigin" type="CT_TwipsMeasure" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="drawingGridVerticalOrigin" type="CT_TwipsMeasure" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotShadeFormData" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="noPunctuationKerning" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="characterSpacingControl" type="CT_CharacterSpacing" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="printTwoOnOne" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="strictFirstAndLastChars" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="noLineBreaksAfter" type="CT_Kinsoku" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="noLineBreaksBefore" type="CT_Kinsoku" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="savePreviewPicture" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotValidateAgainstSchema" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="saveInvalidXml" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="ignoreMixedContent" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="alwaysShowPlaceholderText" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotDemarcateInvalidXml" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="saveXmlDataOnly" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="useXSLTWhenSaving" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="saveThroughXslt" type="CT_SaveThroughXslt" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="showXMLTags" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="alwaysMergeEmptyNamespace" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="updateFields" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="hdrShapeDefaults" type="CT_ShapeDefaults" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="footnotePr" type="CT_FtnDocProps" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="endnotePr" type="CT_EdnDocProps" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="compat" type="CT_Compat" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="docVars" type="CT_DocVars" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="rsids" type="CT_DocRsids" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element ref="m:mathPr" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
	<element name="uiCompat97To2003" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="attachedSchema" type="CT_String" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
	<element name="themeFontLang" type="CT_Language" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
	<element name="clrSchemeMapping" type="CT_ColorSchemeMapping" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotIncludeSubdocsInStats" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotAutoCompressPictures" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="forceUpgrade" type="CT_Empty" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
	<element name="captions" type="CT_Captions" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
	<element name="readModeInkLockDown" type="CT_ReadingModeInkLockDown" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="smartTagType" type="CT_SmartTagType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
	<element ref="sl:schemaLibrary" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
	<element name="shapeDefaults" type="CT_ShapeDefaults" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="doNotEmbedSmartTags" type="CT_OnOff" minOccurs="0"/>
	<element name="decimalSymbol" type="CT_String" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
	<element name="listSeparator" type="CT_String" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
	</sequence>
</complexType>