Microsoft Word Plug-In

Microsoft Word Transformation Options

With the Microsoft Word transformation options feature, you can do the following:
  • Suppress headers and footers
  • Update field codes
  • Preserve Word Web links
  • Set the link color for Web links and any rendered links in a source document
  • Preserve internal cross-references
  • Preserve table of contents, table of figures, and table of tables links
  • Preserve cross-document links
  • Preserve the Word font formatting
  • Add line numbers to every printed page of a rendition
  • Set conditions for the line numbering format 
  • Obtain access to protected documents that you want to render
  • Provide the password for opening or modifying a document or template
  • Disallow A4/letter paper resizing
  • Preserve endnote and footnote links

Special conditions apply to some of these settings. External document links must be absolute paths. Links are broken if the target document is moved. External document links are supported only for file system documents. Graphics or drawing objects, such as lines, are not suppressed during rendering. If text is highlighted in a header or footer, the highlight is not suppressed during rendering.

Internal Microsoft Word links are preserved using the Page Layout view. This view ensures that all links are targeted to the proper page. Whenever the view is changed, Microsoft Word might automatically process any field codes in the document. At times, the link targets are not properly defined and the links in the rendition do not jump to the proper destination. If you want to preserve any links or cross-references in a Microsoft Word document, select the Update Field Codes option. Selecting this option ensures that the field codes are updated before the rendition is created.

Font formatting in the source document is retained when the Preserve Word Font Formatting check box is selected. This overrides the link color set on the Microsoft Word Transformation Options dialog box. If this option is not selected, the source document link color is replaced with the setting from the Microsoft Word Transformation Options dialog box.

Font formatting of the preserved cross-references in the source document is retained when the Preserve Word Font Formatting is selected. This overrides the link color set on the Microsoft Word Transformation Options dialog box. If this option is not selected, the source document link color is replaced with the setting from the Microsoft Word Transformation Options dialog box. Some cross-reference font formatting, such as underlines and strikethroughs, are removed during link color replacement. Use the Preserve Word Font Formatting option if you want to preserve the cross-reference links from the document and want the text to appear exactly as it appears in the source document.

For more information about Word hyperlinks and line numbering, see your Microsoft Word documentation.