Document Settings Part

Content Type:

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.settings+xml

Root Namespace:

http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main

Source Relationship:

http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/settings

An instance of this part type contains all the document's properties.

A package shall contain no more than two Document Settings parts. If it exists, one instance of that part shall be the target of an implicit relationship from the Main Document (§11.3.10) part, and the other shall be the target of an implicit relationship from the Glossary Document (§11.3.8) part.

example: 
<Relationships xmlns="…">
  <Relationship Id="rId4"
    Type="http://…/settings" Target="settings.xml"/>
</Relationships>

The root element for a part of this content type shall be <settings>.

example: 
<w:settings … >
  …
  <w:defaultTabStop w:val="360"/>
  <w:footnotePr>
    …
  </w:footnotePr>
  <w:endnotePr>
  …
  </w:endnotePr>
  <w:rsids>
  …
  </w:rsids>
  …
</w:settings>

A Document Settings part shall be located within the package containing the source relationship (expressed syntactically, the @TargetMode attribute of the <Relationship> element shall be Internal).

A Document Settings part is permitted to contain explicit relationships to the following parts defined by this Standard:

  • Document Template (§11.4)

  • Mail Merge Data Source (§11.7)

  • Mail Merge Header Data Source (§11.8)

  • XSL Transformation (§11.9)

A Document Settings part shall not have any implicit or explicit relationships to any other part defined by this Standard.