All images are exported as the same format that they were originally loaded as.
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
PNG
Yes
JPG
Yes
WMF
Yes
EMF
Yes
EMF+
Yes
BMP
Yes
GIF
Yes
TIFF
Yes
Borders
Yes
Cropping
Yes
Alternative text
Yes
Image Recoloring
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
Brightness
Yes
Contrast
Yes
Recolor
Yes
Textboxes
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
Text Direction
Yes
Linked Textboxes
Yes
Internal Margins
Yes
Vertical Alignment
Yes
Resize To Fit Text
Yes
Text in Other Shapes
Yes
OLE Objects
OLE Objects represent embedded content in a Microsoft Word document, such as an embedded Excel or Powerpoint document. The OLE object is dynamic and can be edited or updated through Microsoft Word.
OLE objects are fully preserved when converting within different Word document formats.
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
Linked
Yes
Embedded
Yes
Draw Aspect
Yes
Auto Update
Yes
Lock
Yes
Ole Object Data
Yes
Ole Object Picture
Yes
Source Range
Yes
ActiveX Controls
ActiveX is supported in OOXML, DOC, RTF and WordML documents. ActiveX Controls are preserved during round-trip to the same format.
When exporting to a different format from the original document the following rules apply:
The “in-built” common ActiveX Word controls e.g checkbox, textbox, listbox etc are fully preserved even when exporting to a different format.
ActiveX imported from document formats DOC, RTF, WordML should be properly retained during conversion to other formats.
When loading ActiveX from OOXML documents e.g DOCX, there are two main types of ActiveX.
The first type is the legacy format which is found in the other formats such as DOC, RTF etc. This is freely converted to the other formats correctly.
The second type is a new format of ActiveX found in OOXML documents such as the DOCX format. This format is not diectly supported in the other formats so during conversion to those formats these types of ActiveX are converted to a plain image. When round-tripping back to an OOXML format these ActiveX are properly retained.
Implementing the conversion of this new ActiveX format to the legacy format is very hard and is not yet supported. It involves interaction with the ActiveX object and perhaps even the program that embeds it. This makes it very hard, if not impossible to peform the conversion. We will consider looking into this sometime in the future.
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
Persistent Properties Storage
Yes
Shapes
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
Lines
Yes
Basic Shapes
Yes
Block Arrows
Yes
Flowcharts
Yes
Callouts
Yes
Stars and Banners
Yes
Group Shape
Yes
Drawing Canvas
Yes
Signature Line
Planned
Signature line functionality is lost on upon export and is exported as a regular image instead.
This will be improved on in a future version.
Ink Annotation
Yes
Ink Annotations are exported to all formats as regular images.
Clip Art
Yes
Diagrams (VML)
Yes
VML graphic format is normally used in pre-OOXML formats such as DOC or RTF.
SmartArt (VML)
Yes
Charts (VML)
Yes
Shape Customizations
Yes
Hyperlink on Shape
Yes
Watermark
Yes
A watermark in a Microsoft Word document is actually a text shape or image centered in the middle of the page but in the header or footer. This allows the watermark to appear behind all content and as faded.
WordArt
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
Styles
Yes
Outline
Yes
Fill
Yes
3D Properties
Yes
Text Spacing
Yes
Vertical Text
Yes
Even Height
Yes
Align and Justify Text
Yes
WordArt Shape
Yes
Horizontal Line Object
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
Width
Yes
Height
Yes
Color
Yes
Alignment
Yes
Hyperlink
Yes
Image
Yes
Position
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
Inline
Yes
Floating
Yes
Wrap Type
Yes
Text wrapping around images and shapes is supported in all formats.
Wrap Sides
Yes
Distance from Text
Yes
Z-Order
Yes
Polygon Wrap Points
Planned
Custom wrap points are lost on export. This will be implemented in a future version.
Rotation
Yes
Flip
Yes
Horizontal Alignment
Yes
Horizontal Position Relative To
Yes
Vertical Alignment
Yes
Vertical Position Relative To
Yes
Anchor Lock
Yes
Allow Overlap
Yes
Layout in Table Cell
Yes
Size
Feature
Supported
Comment
See Also
Width and Height
Yes
Scale
Yes
A scaled object is normally exported with scaling applied to the Shape size and the Scale property reset to 100%.
