Home Tab Feature Support for Microsoft Word

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Each table is broken down into sub-sections within the tabs in Word. Each icon will represent if a feature is supported:

✅ Fully Supported

⚠️ Partially Supported (will contain tooltip or link with further details)

❌ Not Supported

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Certain buttons or features not mentioned are due to them not having an effect on output and are only relevant when using Word (i.e. Find and Replace).

Home Tab

Font Ribbon Section

Property	Word	PDF	HTML
Bold	✅	✅	✅
Italic	✅	✅	✅
Bold-Italic	✅	✅	✅
Font Color	✅	✅	✅
Underline (See here for full suppport)	✅	✅	✅
Underline Color	✅	✅	❌
Strikethrough	✅	✅	✅
Double Strikethrough	✅	✅	❌
Superscript	✅	✅	✅
Subscript	✅	✅	✅
Small Caps	✅	✅	✅
All Caps	✅	✅	✅
Hidden	✅	✅	✅

Font (Dialog Box)

Property	Word	PDF	HTML
Scaling	✅	✅	❌
Spacing	✅	✅	✅
Positioning	✅	✅	✅
Kerning	✅	❌	❌
Ligatures	❌	❌	❌
Number Spacing	❌	❌	❌
Numger Forms	❌	❌	❌
Stylistic Sets	❌	❌	❌
Contextual Alternatives	❌	❌	❌

Paragraph Section

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This includes items in ribbon and the paragraph pop out dialog box.

Property	Word	PDF	HTML
Alignment	✅	✅	✅
Outline Level	✅	✅	✅
Left Indent	✅	✅	❌
Right Indent	✅	✅	✅
Mirror Indent	✅	✅	❌
Special Indent (First Line)	✅	✅	✅
Special Indent (Hanging)	✅	✅	✅
Before Spacing	✅	✅	✅
After Spacing	✅	✅	✅
Don't Add Space Between Same Style Paragraphs	✅	✅	❌
Window/Orphan Control	✅	✅	⚠️
Keep With Next	✅	✅	⚠️
Keep Lines Together	✅	✅	⚠️
Page Break Before	✅	✅	⚠️
Background Shading	✅	✅	✅
Borders (See here for full support)	✅	✅	✅
Asian Typography (all properties)	❌	❌	❌

Tabs Dialog Box

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The tabs button is located in the paragraph pop out dialog box.

Property	Word	PDF	HTML
Default Tab Stop	✅	✅	✅
Alignment (Left)	✅	✅	✅
Alignment (Center)	✅	✅	❌
Alignment (Right)	✅	✅	❌
Alignment (Decimal)	✅	✅	✅
Alignment (Bar)	✅	❌	❌
Leader (1/None)	✅	✅	✅
Leader (2)	✅	✅	✅
Leader (3)	✅	✅	✅
Leader (4)	✅	✅	✅
Leader (5)	✅	✅	✅

Styles Section

Property	Word	PDF	HTML
Default Styles	✅	✅	✅
Custom Styles	✅	✅	✅

Underline Support

Word	PDF	HTML

Border Support

Word	PDF	HTML