MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD 97-2007

BINARY FILE FORMAT SPECIFICATION

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Microsoft Office Word 97-2007

Binary File Format (.doc) Specification
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ....................................................................................................... 4
Note ......................................................................................................................... 8
Additions to Word 2007............................................................................................... 8
Word and .Doc Files.................................................................................................... 8
Definitions ............................................................................................................... 10
Naming Conventions ................................................................................................. 20
Format of the Summary Info Stream in a Word File ...................................................... 21
Format of the Main Stream in a Word Non-Complex File ................................................ 21
Format of the Main Stream in a Complex File ............................................................... 22
Format of the Table Stream ....................................................................................... 22
Format of the Data Stream ........................................................................................ 27
Format of the Custom XML Storage (Added in Word 2007) ............................................ 28
FIB ......................................................................................................................... 28
Text ....................................................................................................................... 29
Character and Paragraph Formatting Properties ........................................................... 32
Bin Tables ............................................................................................................... 34
Style Sheet ............................................................................................................. 34
STSHI ....................................................................................................... 36
Introduced in Word 2003: ........................................................................... 37
STD .......................................................................................................... 38
List Tables ............................................................................................................... 47
LST Records and the rglst .............................................................................. 47
List Names and the sttbListNames ................................................................... 48
LFO Records and the pllfo .............................................................................. 48
Paragraph List Formatting .............................................................................. 48
SPRM Definitions ...................................................................................................... 49
Paragraph SPRMs .......................................................................................... 50
Character SPRMs .......................................................................................... 56
Picture SPRMs .............................................................................................. 62
Section SPRMs .............................................................................................. 63
Table sprms ................................................................................................. 66
Complex SPRMs ............................................................................................ 72
Complex Paragraph SPRMs .......................................................................... 72
Complex Character SPRMs ........................................................................... 75
Complex Picture SPRMs ............................................................................... 78
Complex Section SPRMs .............................................................................. 78
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Complex Table SPRMs ................................................................................. 79

Complex File Format ................................................................................................. 83
Algorithm to determine the BOUNDS OF A PARAGRAPH containing a certain character
in a complex file ........................................................................................... 84
Algorithm to determine PARAGRAPH PROPERTIES for a paragraph in a complex file
.................................................................................................................. 84
Algorithm to determine TABLE PROPERTIES for a table row in a complex file ........ 85
Algorithm to determine the CHARACTER PROPERTIES of a character in a complex file
.................................................................................................................. 85
Algorithm to determine the SECTION PROPERTIES of a section in a complex file ... 86
Algorithm to determine the PIC of a picture in a complex file. ............................. 86
Footnotes & Endnotes ............................................................................................... 86
Headers and Footers ................................................................................................. 87
Page Table .............................................................................................................. 88
Glossary Files .......................................................................................................... 88
Routing Slip ............................................................................................................. 89
Auto Summary......................................................................................................... 89
STTBFASSOC (Table of Associated Strings).................................................................. 89
Structure Definitions ................................................................................................. 90
AnnoTation Reference Descriptor for Word 2000 (ATRDPre10) ............................ 90
AnnoTation Reference Descriptor Additions for Word 2002 (ATRDPost10) ............. 90
AnnoTation Reference Descriptor (ATRD) ......................................................... 92
Auto Numbered List Data Descriptor (ANLD) ..................................................... 92
Auto Numbered List Data Descriptor for Word 97 (ANLD80) ............................... 92
Auto Number Level Descriptor (ANLV) ............................................................. 92
Number Format Table ................................................................................. 94
Auto Number Level Descriptor for Word 97 (ANLV80) ........................................ 95
AutoSummary Analysis (ASUMY) ..................................................................... 95
AutoSummary Info (ASUMYI) ......................................................................... 96
Bin Table Entry (BTE) .................................................................................... 96
BreaK Descriptor (BKD) ................................................................................. 96
BooKmark First descriptor (BKF) ..................................................................... 97
BooKmark Lim descriptor (BKL) ...................................................................... 97
Border Code (BRC) ........................................................................................ 97
Border Code for Word 97 (BRC80)................................................................... 99
Border Code for Windows Word 95 (BRC70) ................................................... 100
Border Code for WinWord 1.0 (BRC10) .......................................................... 101
Character Properties (CHP) .......................................................................... 101
Table of LIDs ........................................................................................... 110
Character Property Exceptions (CHPX) ........................................................... 116
Date and Time (internal date format) (DTTM) ................................................. 116
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Drop Cap Specifier(DCS) .............................................................................. 116

Document Properties (DOP).......................................................................... 117
Number Format Table ............................................................................... 133
Drawing Object Grid (DOGRID) ..................................................................... 135
Document Typography Info (DOPTYPOGRAPHY) .............................................. 135
Field Descriptor (FLD) .................................................................................. 136
File Shape Address (FSPA) ........................................................................... 139
Font Family Name (FFN) .............................................................................. 140
File Information Block (FIB).......................................................................... 141
Footnote Reference Descriptor (FRD) ............................................................. 167
Formatted Disk Page for CHPXs (CHPX FKP) ................................................... 167
Formatted Disk Page for PAPXs (PAPX FKP) .................................................... 168
Hyphenation (HRESI) .................................................................................. 169
List LeVeL (on File) (LVLF) ........................................................................... 169
Line Spacing Descriptor (LSPD) ..................................................................... 170
LiST Data (on File) (LSTF) ............................................................................ 170
List Format Override (LFO) ........................................................................... 171
List Format Override for a single LeVeL (LFOLVL) ............................................ 172
Outline LiST Data (OLST) ............................................................................. 172
Outline LiST Data for Word 97 (OLST80) ........................................................ 172
Number Revision Mark Data (NUMRM) ........................................................... 172
Page Descriptor (PGD) ................................................................................. 173
Paragraph Height (PHE) ............................................................................... 174
Paragraph Properties (PAP) .......................................................................... 175
Paragraph Property Exceptions (PAPX) ........................................................... 180
Picture Bullet Information (PBI) .................................................................... 180
Picture Descriptor (on File) (PICF) ................................................................. 181
Piece Descriptor (PCD) ................................................................................. 183
Plex of CPs stored in File (PLCF) .................................................................... 183
Property Modifier(variant 1) (PRM) ................................................................ 183
Property Modifier(variant 2) (PRM) ................................................................ 184
Routing Slip (RS) ........................................................................................ 184
Routing Recipient (RR) ................................................................................ 185
Section Descriptor (SED) ............................................................................. 185
Section Properties (SEP) .............................................................................. 185
Section Property Exceptions (SEPX) .............................................................. 189
Shading Descriptor (SHD) ............................................................................ 189
Shading Descriptor for Word 97 (SHD80) ....................................................... 190
Spelling State Mark (SPLS)........................................................................... 191
Tab Descriptor (TBD) ................................................................................... 191
Table Cell Descriptors (TC) ........................................................................... 192
Table Cell Diagonal Borders (TCD) ................................................................ 194
Table Autoformat Look sPecifier (TLP) ............................................................ 194
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Table Properties (TAP) ................................................................................. 197

TeXtBoX Story (FTXBXS).............................................................................. 203
WorK Book (WKB) ....................................................................................... 203
Information Rights Management (IRM) ..................................................................... 204
DataSpaces ................................................................................................ 204
DRMContent ............................................................................................... 204
DRMViewerContent ..................................................................................... 204
Appendix A - Reading a Macintosh PICT Graphic......................................................... 205
Appendix B – Calculation of font (FTC) and language (LID) .......................................... 206
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Note
Many of the structures written into Microsoft® Office Word 2007 .doc files differ slightly from
the corresponding structures Word uses internally. The file-specific version of a structure is
typically named by adding a preceding or (more often) trailing ―F‖. For example, Word uses a
PLC (PLex of Cps (Character positions)) internally, but writes to files a PLCF (PLex of Cps in
File). Many discussions in this document use the name of the internal structure when the
file-specific structure is what is really being referred to. The reader should remember that the
name of a seemingly undefined structure type may simply be missing a leading or trailing ―F‖.

Additions to Word 2007

There were several additions to the binary file format with the release of Microsoft Office Word
2007. Word 2007 introduces a new XML-based file format. While this new format is the default
format for documents saved by Word 2007, Word 2007 also provides the capability to save
files to the binary Word file format used in previous versions.
Additions to the Word binary file format include the following:
 Addition of a new custom XML storage
 Addition of several new records to the Office Drawing Layer (Escher)
Word 2007 adds a new custom XML storage to the binary file format to store custom XML
information for documents created in Word 2007. This release of the Word binary file format
documentation includes information about the custom XML storage. The additions to this
binary file format documentation are preceded with the note: ―Added in Word 2007‖.
Word 2007 adds several new records to the binary file format to store information about
documents created in Word 2007. Each of these records stores information about features
specific to Word 2007. This data is preserved in the binary format so that when reopened in
Word 2007, documents retain data and features that are only available in the newer version.
Information on these new records to the Office Drawing Layer is documented in the Office
Drawing Binary File Format documentation.

Word and .Doc Files

The binary format for Microsoft Word 97 and later versions is based on a structure referred to
as a .doc file or ―compound file‖. Compound File Binary format is documented at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/B/E/0BE8BDD7-E5E8-422A-ABFD-4342ED7AD8
86/WindowsCompoundBinaryFileFormatSpecification.pdf.
A Word .doc file consists of a:
 Main stream
 Summary information stream
 Table stream
 Data stream
 Custom XML storage (Added in Word 2007)
 0 or more object streams which contain private data for OLE 2.0 objects embedded within
the Word document
The summary information stream is described in the Format of the Summary Info Stream
in a Word File section.
The object stream contains binary data for embedded objects. Word has no knowledge of the
contents ofthis stream.
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The majority of this document describes the contents of the main stream and the table stream.
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Definitions
API (Application Programming Interface):
A set of libraries, functions, definitions, etc. providing an interface to a programming
environment or model.
bin table
Each FKP can be viewed as a bucket or bin that contains the properties of a certain range
of FCs in the Word file. In Word files, a PLC, the plcfbte (PLex of FCs containing Bin
Table Entries) is maintained. It records the association between a particular range of FCs
and the PN (Page Number) of the FKP that contains the properties for that FC range in the
file. In a complex (fast-saved) Word document, FKP pages are intermingled with pages of
text in a random pattern which reflects the history of past fast saves. In a complex
document, a plcfbteChpx which records the location of every CHPX FKP must be stored
and a plcfbtePapx which records the location of every PAPX FKP must be stored. In a
non-complex, full-saved document, all of the CHPX FKPS are recorded in consecutive
512-byte pages with the FKPs recorded in ascending FC order, as are all of the PAPX FKPS.
A plcfbteLvcx serves the same purpose for LVCX FKPS.
In a full save document, the plcfbte‘s may not have been able to expand during the save
process due to a lack of RAM. In this situation, the plcfbte‘s are interspersed with the
property pages in a linked list of FBD pages.
bookmark
A bookmark associates a user defined name to a range of text within a document. A
bookmark is frequently used as an operand in field code instructions within a field. A
bookmark is represented by three parallel data structures, the sttbBkmk, the plcbkf and
the plcbkl. The sttbBkmk is a string table which contains the name of each defined
bookmark. The plcbkf records the beginning CP position of each bookmark. The plcbkl
records the limit CP position that delimits the end of a bookmark. Since bookmarks may be
nested within one another to any level, the BKF structure stored in the plcbkf consists of
a single index that identifies which plcbkl marks the end of the bookmark. The BKL
structure is not written to the file and the plcbkl contains only CPs.
character style
A named character property exception that can be associated with any number of runs of
text in a Word document‘s text stream. When a run of text is tagged with a particular
character style, a chpx defined for the character style is applied to the character
properties defined for the paragraph style of the paragraph that contains the text. This
means that the character style can change one or more of the character property field
settings specified by the paragraph style of a paragraph to a particular setting without
changing the value of any other field.
CHP (CHaracter Properties)
The data structure describing the character properties of a run of text.
CHPX (Character Property EXception)
A data structure describing how a particular CHP differs from a reference CHP. In Word 6.0,
the CHPX simply consists of a grpprl applied to the reference CHP to produce the
originally encoded CHP. By applying a CHPX to the character properties (CHP) inherited by
a particular paragraph from its style, it is possible to reconstitute the CHP for the portion
of the character run that intersects that paragraph.
COLORREF
Used to specify an explicit RGB color, the COLORREF value has the following hexadecimal
form:
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0x00bbggrr
The low-order byte contains a value for the relative intensity of red, the second byte
contains a value for green, and the third byte contains a value for blue. The high-order byte
must be zero. The maximum value for a single byte is 0xFF.
The intensity for each argument is in the range 0 through 255. If all three intensities are
zero, the result is black. If all three intensities are 255, the result is white.
CP (Character Position):
A four-byte integer specifying the position coordinate of a character of text within the
logical text stream of a document.
Custom XML Datastore (Added in Word 2007):
The custom XML data store specifies custom defined XML files contained in the binary
Microsoft Word 97 format or the Office Open XML Formats.
data stream:
The stream within a Word .doc file containing various data that anchors to characters in the
main stream. For example, binary data describing in-line pictures and/or form fields.
docfile:
An OLE 2.0 compatible multi-stream file. Word files are .doc files.
document:
A named, multi-linked list of data structures, representing an ordered stream of text with
properties produced by a user of Microsoft Word.
DOP (DOcument Properties)
The data structure describing properties that apply to the document as a whole.
Dxas

embedded object
The native data for embedded objects (OBJs) is stored similarly to pictures ( PICs). To
locate the native data for Embedded objects, scan the plc of field codes for the mother,
header, footnote and annotation, textbox and header textbox documents
(fib.PlcffldMom/Hdr/Ftn/Atn/Txbx/HdrTxbx). For each separator field, get the
chp.
If chp.fSpec=1 and chp.fObj=1, then this separator field has an associated embedded
object. The file location of the object data is stored in chp.fcObj. At the specified location
an object header is stored followed by the native data for the object. See the _OBJHEADER
structure.
If chp.fOle2=1, then this separator field has an associated OLE2 object. The fcPic will
be a unique integer that specifies the name of the object‘s sub-storage instead of an offset
into the data stream.
fast-saved (or complex) file:
A Word file in which the physical order of characters stored in the file does not match the
logical order of characters in the document that the file represents. A piece table must be
stored in the file to describe the text stream of the document. Due to Unicode compression
to code page 1252, all files (simple and complex) now contain a piece table.
FC( File Character position):
A four-byte integer which is the byte offset of a character (or other object) from the
beginning of a stream of the .doc file. Before a file has been edited (i.e. in a full saved Word
document), CPs can be transformed into FCs by adding the FC coordinate of the beginning
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of a document's text stream to the CP. After a file has been edited (i.e. in a fast-saved
Word document), the mapping from CP to FC is recorded in the piece table (see below).
FIB (File Information Block):
The header of a Word file. Begins at offset 0 in the file. This gives the beginning offset and
lengths of the document's text stream and subsidiary data structures within the file. Also
stores other file status information.
field
A field is a two-part structure that may be recorded in the CP stream of a document. The
first part of the structure contains field codes which instruct Word to insert text into the
second part of the structure, the field result. Fields in Word are used to insert text from an
external file or to quote another part of a document, to mark index and table of contents
entries and produce indexes and tables of contents, maintain DDE links to other programs,
to produce dates, times, page numbers, sequence numbers, etc. There are 91 different
field types.
A field begin mark delimits the beginning of a field and precedes any of the field codes
stored in the field. The end of the field codes and the beginning of the field result is marked
with the field separator and the field result and the field itself are terminated by a field
end mark.
The CP locations of the field begin mark, field separator, and field end mark are recorded
in plcfld data structures that are maintained for the main document and all of the
subdocuments of the main document whenever a field is inserted or edited. A field can be
dead, in which case it has no field separator, no field result, and no entry in the plcfld.
(See the definition of the FLD structure for a list of possible dead field code strings.) An
array of two-byte FLD structures is stored in the plcfld in a 1-to-1 correspondence with
the recorded CP entries. An FLD associated with a field begin mark records the type of
the field. An FLD associated with the field end mark records the current status of the field
(i.e. whether the result is dirty or has been edited, whether the result has been locked,
etc.)
Fields may be nested. Twenty (20) levels of nesting are permitted.
FKP (Formatted disK Page):
A data structure that fits in one 512-byte page that encodes either the character properties
or the paragraph properties of a certain portion of a Word .doc file. An FKP consists of four
components:
1) a count of the number of runs or paragraphs described by the page.
2) an array of FCs recorded in ascending order demarcating the boundaries between runs
or paragraphs that are recorded adjacent to one another in the Word file.
3) In character FKPs an array of offsets within the FKP in one to one correspondence with
the array of FCs that locate the properties of the run that begins at a particular FC.
In LVC FKPs an array of offsets within the FKP in 1-to-1 correspondence with the array of
FCs that locate the LVCXs that describe the run that begins at a particular FC.
In paragraph FKPs an array of BX structures follows the array of FCs in 1 to 1
correspondence with the array of FCs. Each BX begins with an offset that locates the
properties of the paragraph that begins at a particular FC. The remainder of the BX
contains a PHE structure that encodes information about the height of the paragraph that
begins at that FC.
4) a group of CHPXs if the FKP stores character properties, a group of PAPXs if the FKP
stores paragraph and table properties, or a group of LVCXs if the FKP stores paragraph
level and numbering cache information.
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To find the CHPX/PAPX corresponding to a particular character in a document, calculate the

FC coordinate for that character. Then search through the bin table for the type of
property you want to produce, to find the FKP in the document stream whose array of FCs
encompasses the FC of the document character.
Then search within the FKP to find the index of the largest FC entry that is less than or
equal to the FC of the document character. Use this index to look up an offset in the array
of offsets (for character FKPs) or look up an offset in the array of BXs (for paragraph
FKPs) within the FKP. Add this offset to the beginning address of the FKP in memory. This
will be the first byte of the desired CHPX/PAPX.
full-saved (or non-complex) file:
A Word file in which the physical order of characters stored in the file is identical to the
logical order of characters in the document that the file represents. The text stream of a
non-complex file can be described by an fc (an offset from the beginning of the file) to
mark where the text begins and a ccp (count of CPs) to record how many characters are
stored in the text stream. Due to Unicode compression to code page 1252, all files (simple
and complex) now contain a piece table. However, a full-saved piece table will not have
property modifiers (prms) and all text in the file is referenced by the piece table.
grpprl (group of prls):
A grpprl is a data structure that records a set of sprms. The 0th sprm is recorded at offset
0 of the structure. Any succeeding sprms are recorded immediately after the end of the
preceding sprm. To traverse a grpprl and locate the sprms recorded within it, it‘s
necessary to fetch the opcode of the first sprm, lookup the length of the sprm with that
opcode, use that length to skip past the first sprm, fetch the opcode of the second sprm,
lookup the length of that sprm, use the length to skip the second sprm, and so on. See the
table in the ―SPRM Definition‖ topic to determine the length of a sprm.
The phrase ―apply the sprms of a grpprl (or papx or sepx)‖ used later in this document
means to fetch the 0th sprm recorded in the grpprl and perform the action for that sprm,
fetch the first sprm and perform its action, and continue this procedure until all sprms in
the grpprl (or papx or sepx) have been processed.
LFO
LFO stands for List Format Override.
LFOLVLF
LFOLVLF stands for List Format Override for a Single Level.
LID
LID stands for Language ID.
LSD
LSD Stands for Latent Style Data.
LST
The LST structure is where most of the list appearance data is stored
LSTF
LST structure on File
LVC
List Level Cache information
LVCX
List Level Cache information
LVL
List Level
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LVLF
List Level on File
main stream:
The stream within a Word .doc file containing the bulk of Word‘s binary data.
object storage:
A storage containing binary data for an embedded OLE 2.0 object. Multiple instances are
referred to as ―storages‖.
OLE 2.0:
Object Linking and Embedding 2.0.
Office Drawing object
An Office Drawing object is represented in the document stream as a special character, an
ASCII 8, which has chp.fSpec=1 for the run of text containing the character. Only main
documents and header documents contain Office Drawing objects. The native data for an
Office Drawing object may be obtained by taking the CP for the special character and using
this to find the corresponding entry in the plcspa. An entry in this plc consists of a FSPA
structure, which is described elsewhere in this document.
Office Drawing objects can have text attached to them. Text for the textboxes is stored
separately in the textbox subdocument of the main or header document. The textbox
subdocument contains a plctxbxs where the text from CP n to CP n+1 in the
subdocument is the text which is contained in a textbox as specified in the TXBXS structure
for this nth entry in the plctxbxs. Textboxes can be linked in chains of up to 32 textboxes.
Ordering of textboxes in the subdocument is completely unrelated to the document
structure due to the nature of textbox linking. To find the text for a given Office Drawing
object, the TXID property (a long: high word is itxbxs+1, low word is the sequence
number) must be fetched from the Office art data for the shape. This contains an index
(itxbxs) into plctxbxs and a sequence number in the chain of linked textboxes. The text
for the entire chain of linked textboxes is stored from the CP itxbxs to CP itxbxs+1 of
plctxbxs. The plctxbxBkd describes the ―page table‖ within textbox stories (where the
textboxes in each linked textbox chain are thought of as ―pages‖). So, for each entry in the
plctxbxs there is a corresponding entry in the plctxbxBkd at the same CP, and there
may be additional entries in the plctxbxBkd to describe the breaks from one textbox to
the next in linked textbox chains.
page (or sector):
A 512 byte segment of the main stream within a Word .doc file that begins on a 512-byte
boundary. (bytes 0-511 are in page 0, bytes 512-1023 are in page 1, etc.). In Word data
structures, an unsigned two-byte integer page number is given the acronym PN (for Page
Number).
PAP (PAragraph Properties)
The data structure which describes the properties of a particular paragraph.
PAPX (PAragraph Property EXception)
A data structure describing how a particular paragraph‘s properties differ from the
paragraph properties of the style assigned to the paragraph. By applying a PAPX to the
paragraph properties (PAP) inherited by a particular paragraph from its style, it is possible
to reconstitute the PAP for that paragraph. The PAPX contains an ISTD (a style code to
identify the style in control of the paragraph and a grpprl which specifies how the style's
paragraph properties must be changed to produce the paragraph properties of the
paragraph.
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paragraph
A contiguous sequence of characters within the text stream of a document that is delimited
by a paragraph mark, cell mark, row mark, or a section mark (these are special characters
described later in this document).
paragraph style
A named set of character and paragraph properties that can be associated with any
number of paragraphs in a Word document's text stream. A paragraph style provides a
set of character and paragraph property defaults for the text of any paragraph tagged with
that style. When a new paragraph is created and given a particular style, newly typed text
is set to the character and paragraph properties of that style unless the user makes an
exception to the paragraph style definition by performing other editing operations.
picture
A picture is represented in the document text stream as a special character, an ASCII 1
whose CHP has the fSpec bit set to 1. The file location of the picture in the Word binary file
is stored in the character‘s CHP in chp.fcPic. The fcPic is a byte offset into the data
stream. Beginning at the position recorded in chp.fcPic, a header data structure, the
PIC, will be stored. If the picture is a reference to a TIFF file, a Picture file or an Office
shape file, the name of the file is recorded immediately following the PIC in a Pascal style
string. If the picture is an Office shape, a Window's metafile or a bitmap, the shape,
metafile or bitmap will immediately follow the PIC. Pictures that are a reference to an
Office shape file will include both the filename and the shape in that order. Pictures inserted
with Word 97 and later versions are in the new Office shape format (documented
elsewhere). However, pictures can be copied from older files into newer ones and their old
format will persist until the picture is edited or displayed.
Some files (including all files created by Word for the Macintosh) may store Macintosh PICT
pictures as well. In this case, the PIC structure is immediately followed by a standard
Windows metafile depicting a large ―x‖, so that older readers expecting only a metafile
after the PIC will just display this ―x‖. If a reader detects this standard ―x‖ metafile, it can
extract the sizes of the standard ―x‖ metafile and the Macintosh PICT picture that follows it
from an early portion of this ―x‖ metafile. See Appendix B for a discussion of this technique.
piece table:
The piece table is a data structure that describes the logical sequence of characters in a
Word document and records recent changes to the formatting of a Word document. It is
stored in a Word file as a PLCF named the plcfpcd (PLex of Cps containing Piece
Descriptors). The piece table relates a logical character number, called a CP (Character
Position), to a physical location within a Word file (an FC). The array of CPs in the plcfpcd
defines a partitioning of the Word document into disjoint pieces. The second array is an
array of PCDs (Piece Descriptors) which is in 1-to-1 correspondence to the array of CPs
that records the physical location in the Word file where the corresponding piece begins. To
find the physical location of a particular logical character in a Word document, take the CP
coordinate of that character within the document and find the piece that contains that
character. This is done by finding the index of the largest CP in the array of CPs that is less
than the character CP. Then reference the PCD with that index in the array of PCDs. The FC
stored in the PCD gives the position of the beginning of the piece in the file. Finally, add the
offset of the desired character from the beginning of its piece to the FC of the beginning of
the piece. This gives a ―virtual‖ file offset of the character. If the second most significant bit
is clear, then this indicates the actual file offset of the Unicode character (two bytes). If the
second most significant bit is set, then the actual address of the codepage-1252
compressed version of the Unicode character (one byte), is actually at the offset indicated
by clearing this bit and dividing by two.
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PL

PLCF(PLex of Cps(or FCs) stored in File):

A data structure consisting of two parallel arrays that allows a relation to be established
between a certain CP position in the document text stream (or FC position in a file) and an
arbitrary data structure. It consists of an array of n+1 CPs or FCs followed by an array of
n instances of a particular arbitrary data structure. In typical usage, the nth CP or FC of
the PLCF is in 1-to-1 correspondence with the nth instance of the arbitrary data structure,
with the n+1st CP or FC marking the limit of the nth instance's influence. When a PLCF
is used to record a partitioning of the document's text stream or a partitioning of the bytes
stored in a file, the 0th CP/FC stored in the PLCF will be 0. When a PLCF is used to record
the location of certain marks or links within the document text stream, the 0th CP/FC
stored in the PLCF will record the position of the 0th mark or link. To properly interpret a
PLCF stored in a Word file, the length of the stored PLCF and the length of the arbitrary
data structure stored in the PLCF must be known. The length of the stored PLCF is
recorded in the FIB. The lengths of the data structures stored in PLCFs within Word files
are listed later in this document.
PLF(PLex stored in File):
A data structure consisting of an array of structures preceded by a long count of structures.
prm (PRoperty Modifier):
A field in piece table entries that records how the properties of text within a piece were
changed to reflect user formatting operations. The prm usually contains an index to a
grpprl which records the user‘s formatting changes as a group of sprms. If the user has
made only a small change to formatting that can be expressed as a single 1 or 2-byte
sprm, that sprm is stored within the prm.
run of text
A contiguous sequence of characters within the text stream of a document that have the
same character formatting properties. A single run may cross paragraph boundaries and
may encompass the entire document.
section
A contiguous sequence of paragraphs within the text stream of a document that is
delimited by a section mark or by the final paragraph mark at the end of a document. Users
frequently treat sections as the equivalent of a chapter in a book. The boundaries of
sections mark locations where the layout rules for a document (number of columns, text of
headers and footers to use, whether page numbers should be displayed, etc.) are changed.
SEP(SEction Properties)
The data structure describing the properties of a particular section.
SEPX(SEction Property EXceptions)
A data structure describing how the properties of a particular section differ from a
Word-defined standard SEP. As in the PAPX, the differences between the SEP for a section
and the standard SEP are encoded as a list of sprms that describe how the standard SEP
can be transformed into the section's SEP. By applying a SEPX's sprms to the standard
SEP, it is possible to reconstitute the SEP for that section.
The PLCFSED, a data structure stored in a .doc file, records the locations of all SEPXs. The
array of CPs in the plcfsed records the boundaries of sections in the Word document. The
second array in the plcf, an array of SEDs (SEction Descriptors), is in 1-to-1
correspondence to the array of CPs. Each SED stores the beginning FC of the SEPX that
records the properties for a section. If the FC stored in a SED is -1, the section properties
of the section are exactly equal to the standard section properties.
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The SEP for a particular section may be constructed if a CP of a character in that section is
known. First search the array of CPs in the PLCSED for the index of the largest CP that is
less than or equal to the CP of the character. Use this index to locate the SED in the
plcfsed which describes the section. The FC stored in the SED is the offset from the
beginning of the Word file at which the SEPX is stored. If the stored FC is equal to
0xFFFFFFFF, then the SEP for the section is exactly equal to the standard SEP (see SEP
structure definition). Otherwise, read the SEPX into memory and create a copy of the
standard SEP. Finally, apply the sprms stored in the SEPX to the standard SEP to produce
the SEP for a section.
SPLS

sprm (Single PRoperty Modifier):

An instruction to modify one or more properties within one of the property defining data
structures (CHP, PAP, TAP, SEP, or PIC). It consists of an operation code which identifies
the field(s) to be changed, and an operand which gives the value that a particular field is
changed to or a parameter passed to a procedure to change the field or fields. A prl
(property modifiers stored in a list) is a sprm plus its operand.
stream:
The physical encoding of a Word document's text and sub data structures in a random
access stream within a .doc file.
STSH (STyle SHeet)
A data structure which represents every style defined within the Word document. The STSH
records a unique name string for every style and associates each name with a particular
CHP and/or a PAP. The indexes used to refer to individual styles are called ISTDs (Indexes
to STyle Descriptors). Every PAPX for every paragraph recorded in a document contains an
ISTD which identifies the style from which a paragraph inherited its default character and
paragraph properties. CHPXs recorded for the text within the paragraph and PAPXs
recorded for the paragraph itself encode changes that the user has made with respect to
the style‘s default properties.
STTBF (STring TaBle stored in File)
Word has many tables of strings that are stored as Pascal-type strings. STTBFs consist of
an optional short containing 0xFFFF, indicating that the strings are extended character
strings, a short indicating how many strings are included in the string table, another short
indicating the size in bytes of the extra data stored with each string and each string
followed by the extra data. Non-extended character Pascal strings begin with a single byte
length count which describes how many characters follow the length byte in the string. If
pst is a pointer to an array of characters storing a Pascal style string then the length of the
string is *pst+1. In an STTBF Pascal-type strings are concatenated one after another until
the length of the STTBF recorded in the FIB is exhausted. Extra data associated with a
string may also be stored in an sttbf. When extra data is stored for an STTBF, it is written
at the end of each string. For example: the extra data for an STTBF consists of a short. If
the string ―Cat‖ were stored, the actual entry in the string table would have a length byte
of 3 (3 for ―Cat‖) followed by the bytes ‗C‘ ‗a‘ ‗t‘, followed by the 2 bytes containing the
short. Extended character strings are stored just the same, except they have a double byte
length count and each extended character occupies two bytes.
subdocument
A separate logical stream of text with properties for which correlations with the main
document text are maintained. Word's headers/footers, footnotes, endnotes, macro
procedure text, annotation text, and text within textboxes are kept in separate
subdocuments. Each subdocument has its own CP coordinate space. In other words, data
structures are stored in Word files that are components of these subdocuments. These data
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structures contain CP coordinates whose 0 point is the beginning of the subdocument text
stream instead of the beginning of the main document text stream.
In full-saved documents, a simple calculation with values stored in the FIB produces the
file offset of the beginning of the subdocument text streams (if they exist). The length of
these streams is also stored.
In fast-saved documents, the piece tables of subdocuments are concatenated to the
end of the main document piece table. In this case, to identify the beginning of
subdocument text, you must sum the length of the main document text stream with the
lengths of any subdocument text streams stored ahead of the subdocument (information
stored in the FIB) and treat this sum as a CP coordinate. To retrieve the text of the
subdocument, you must do lookups in the piece table, starting with the piece that contains
the beginning CP coordinate, to find the physical location of each piece of the subdocument
text stream.
summary information stream:
The stream within a Word .doc file containing the document summary information.
table row:
A contiguous sequence of paragraphs within the text stream of a document that is
partitioned into subsequences of paragraphs called cells. The last paragraph of each cell is
terminated by a special paragraph mark called a cell mark. Following the cell mark that
ends the last cell of a table row, the table row is terminated by a special paragraph mark
called a row mark. When Word displays a table row, it assigns a rectangular shaped
display area to each cell in the row. All of the cell display area‘s tops are aligned at the
same vertical position on a page. The leftmost display area in a table row is assigned to the
0th cell of the row; the next display area to the right is assigned to the 1st cell of the row,
etc. The text of the cell is wrapped to fit its display area. As more text is added to the cell,
the cell display area extends downward. A set of table properties that determine how many
cells are in a row, where the horizontal boundaries of cell display areas are, and what
borders are drawn around each cell in the table is stored for the row mark that marks the
end of the table row.
table stream:
The stream within a Word .doc file containing the various plcf‘s and tables that describe
a document‘s structures.
TAP (TAble Properties):
The data structure which describes the properties of a single table row. The information in
the TAP for a table row is stored in a Word file as a list of sprms that modify a TAP which
has been cleared to zeros. This list of table sprms is appended to the grpprl of paragraph
sprms that is recorded in the PAPX for the row mark that delimits the end of a table row.
UPE (Universal Property Expansion)
Describes the ―end-result‖ of property formatting, i.e. what the style looks like. The UPE
structure is a non-zero prefix of a UPD structure.
UPX (Universal Property eXception)
Describes the difference in formatting of a style as compared to its based-on style.
XCHAR( eXtended CHARacter set):
A data type which defines a ―character‖. Each XCHAR corresponds to a character in the
document, where ―character‖ is defined as a glyph, regardless of whether it is a single-byte
or double-byte character. With Word6 (East Asian), Word95 (East Asian), Word97/all and
future versions of Word, this is defined as a 16-bit integer corresponding to the Unicode
character code of the glyph.
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XST

Note In this document, bit 0 is the low-order bit. Structures are described as they would be
declared in C for the Intel architecture. When numbering bytes in a word from low offset
towards high offset, two-byte integers have their least significant eight bits stored in byte 0
and most significant eight bits in byte 1. If bit 31 is the most significant bit in a four-byte
integer, bits 31 through 24 are stored in byte 3 of a four-byte integer, bits 23 through 16 are
stored in byte 2, bits 15 through 8 will be stored in byte 1, and bits 7 through 0 are stored in
byte 0.
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Naming Conventions
The field names in Word data structures usually consist of a prefix of lower case characters
followed by an optional upper case modifier. The following tags are used in the lower case
prefix of field names to document the data type of the field:
b Used to name a 1 byte integer value
c Prefix used to signify that an integer value is a count of some number of objects.
(e.g. a cb is a count of bytes, a cl is a count of lines, ccol is a count of columns,
a cpe is a count of picture elements.)
cp Used to name a variable that contains a character position within the document.
Always a 4 byte quantity.
dxa Used to name a variable that contains the horizontal distance of an object
measured from some reference point expressed in twips. (e.g. pap.dxaLeft is
the distance of the left boundary of a paragraph measured from the left margin
of the page). See ―xa‖ for definition of twip.
dxp Used to name a variable that contains the horizontal distance of an object
measured from some reference point expressed in Macintosh pixel units (1/72‖).
(e.g. dxpSpace)
dya Used to name a variable that contains the vertical distance of an object
measured from some reference point expressed in twips. (e.g. pap.dyaAbs is
the vertical distance of the top of a paragraph from a reference frame declared
in the pap). See ―xa‖ for definition of twip.
dyp Used to name a variable that contains the vertical distance of an object
measured from some reference point expressed in Macintosh pixel units (1/72‖).
f Used to name a flag (a variable containing a Boolean value). Usually the object
referred to will contain either 1 (fTrue, TRUE) or 0 (fFalse, FALSE). (e.g.
fWidowControl, fShadow)
fc Used to name a variable that contains an offset from the beginning of a file.
Always a 4 byte quantity.
grp Prefix used to name an array of bytes that contains one or more copies of a
variable length data structure with the instances of the data structure stored one
after the other in the array. (e.g. a grpprl is an array of bytes that stores a
group of prls.)
grpf Prefix used to name an integer or byte value whose bits are used as flags. (e.g.
grpfIhdt is a group of flags that records the types of headers that are stored
for a particular section of a document).
i Prefix used to signify that an integer value is used as an index into an array.
(e.g. itbd is an index into rgtbd, itc is an index into rgtc.)
l Used to name a 4 byte integer value ( a long). (e.g. lcb)
rg Prefix used to signify that the data structure being defined is an array. (e.g. rgb
(an array of bytes), rgcp (an array of CPs), rgfc (an array of FCs), rgfoo (an
array of foos).
w Used to name a 2 byte integer value (a short ).
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xa Used to name a variable that contains a width of an object imaged on screen or

on hard copy that is measured in units of 1/1440 of an inch. This unit which is
one-twentieth of a point size (1/20 * 1/72‖) is called a twip in this
documentation. (e.g. xaPage is the width of a page).
ya Used to name a variable that contains the height of an object imaged on screen
or on hard copy that is measured in twips. See ―xa‖ for definition of twip.

The two following modifiers are used occasionally in this documentation:

First Means that the variable marks the first of a range of objects. For example,
cpFirst would mark the first character position of a range of characters in a
document. fcFirst would mark the file offset of the first byte of a range of
bytes stored in a file.
Lim Means the variable marks the limit of a range of objects (i.e. is the index of the
last object in a range plus 1). For example, cpLim would be the limit CP of a
range of characters in a document. fcLim would be the limit file offset of a range
of bytes stored in a file.

Format of the Summary Info Stream in a Word

File
The summary information for a Word document is stored in two structured storage streams,
SummaryInformation and DocumentSummaryInformation.
SummaryInformation and DocumentSummaryInformation are widely understood. You can
find additional information at:
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 http://poi.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/poi/hpsf/SummaryInformation.html
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Format of the Main Stream in a Word

Non-Complex File
The main stream of a Word .doc file (non-complex format) consists of the Word file header
(FIB), the text, and the formatting information.
FIB
Stored at the beginning of page 0 of the file. fib.fComplex is set to zero.
Text of body, footnotes, headers
Text begins at the position recorded in fib.fcMin.
FKPs for CHPs, PAPs and LVCs
The first Formatted Disk Page (FKP) begins at a 512-byte boundary after the last byte of
text is written. The remaining FKPs are sequentially recorded in the 512-byte pages
following the first FKP. The FKPs for Character Properties (CHPs), Paragraph Properties
(PAPs), and LVCs are interleaved. Previous versions of Word wrote them in contiguous
blocks. The hplcfbte‘s of the three flavors (CHP, PAP and LVC) are used to find the
relevant FKP of the appropriate type.
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Group of SEPXs
Section Property Exceptions (SEPXs) immediately follow the FKPs and are concatenated
one after the other. SEPXs are no longer guaranteed to start on a page boundary if it would
span a boundary when placed immediately after the preceding SEPX.

Format of the Main Stream in a Complex File

The main stream of a Word binary file (complex format) consists of the Word file header (FIB),
the text, and the formatting information.
FIB
Stored at beginning of page 0 of the file. fib.fComplex is set to one.
Text of body, footnotes, headers stored during last full save
Text begins at the position recorded in fib.fcMin.
FKPs for CHPs, PAPs and LVCs
The first Formatted Disk Page (FKP) begins at a 512-byte boundary after the last byte of
text is written. The remaining FKPs are sequentially recorded in the 512-byte pages
following the first FKP. The FKPs for Character Properties (CHPs), Paragraph Properties
(PAPs), and LVCs are interleaved. Previous versions of Word wrote them in contiguous
blocks. The hplcfbte’s of the three flavors (CHP, PAP and LVC) are used to find the
relevant FKP of the appropriate type.
Group of SEPXs stored during last full save
SEPXs immediately follow the FKPs and are concatenated one after the other.
Any text, stored during first fast save
Any FKPs stored during first fast save
Any SEPXs stored during first fast save
Any text, stored during second fast save
Any FKPs stored during second fast save
Any SEPXs stored during second fast save
...
Any text, stored during nth fast save
Any FKPs stored during nth fast save
Any SEPXs stored during nth fast save

Format of the Table Stream

Word stores various plcfs and tables with the stream named either ―0Table‖ or ―1Table‖.
Ordinarily a file will contain only one table stream. However, in some unusual circumstances
(e.g. crash during file save) a file might have two table streams. In that case the bit field
fWhichTblStm in the FIB should be used to determine which table stream to read. If
fWhichTblStm==0, then the FIB refers to the stream named ―0Table‖, and if
fWhichTblStm==1, then the FIB refers to the stream name ―1Table‖.
autosaveSource (name of original)
Written immediately after the sttbfAssoc table. This field only appears in auto saved
files. These files are normal Word documents in every other way. Also, auto saved files are
typically in the complex file format except that the tables ( plcf*, etc.) are not
overwritten. For example, an auto saved file is typically longer than the equivalent Word
document.
bkdEdn (endnote text break descriptor table)
Written immediately after the pgdEdn if the document contains endnotes
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bkdFtn (footnote text break descriptor table)

Written immediately after the pgdFtn if the document contains footnotes.
bkdMother (break descriptor table)
Written immediately after the pgdMother in all Word documents
clx (encoding of the sprm lists for a complex file and piece table for a any file)
Written immediately after the end of the previously recorded structure. This is recorded in
all Word documents.
cmds (recording of command data structures)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if special commands are linked to
this document.
dggInfo (Office drawing information)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table. Format is described in the Office
drawing group format document.
dop (document properties record)
Written immediately after the end of the previously recorded structure. This is recorded in
all Word documents
formFldSttbs (form field dropdown string tables)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document contains form
field dropdown controls.
grpXstAtnOwners (annotation owner table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table if the document contains
annotations.
hplgosl (grammar option settings)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table. This undocumented structure
maps LID and grammar checker type to grammar checking options.
pgdEdn (endnote text page description table)
Written immediately after the plcfendTxt if the document contains endnotes
pgdFtn (footnote text page description table)
Written immediately after the plcffndTxt if the document contains footnotes
pgdMother (page description table)
Written immediately after the plcfsed in all Word documents
plcasumy (AutoSummary analysis)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document stored is in
AutoSummary view mode.
plcfandRef (annotation reference position table)
Written immediately after the grpXstAtnOwners if the document contains annotations
plcfandTxt (annotation text position table)
Written immediately after the plcfandRef if the document contains annotations.
plcfAtnbkf (table recording the beginning CPs for bookmarks in the annotation
subdocument)
Written immediately after the sttbfAtnBkmk previously recorded table, if the document
contains annotations with bookmarks.
plcfAtnbkl (table recording the limit CPs of bookmarks in the annotation
subdocument)
Written immediately after the plcfAtnbkf previously recorded table, if the document
contains annotations with bookmarks.
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plcfBkmkf (table recording beginning CPs of bookmarks)

Written immediately after the sttbfBkmk, if the document contains bookmarks.
plcfBkmkl (table recording limit CPs of bookmarks)
Written immediately after the plcfBkmkf, if the document contains bookmarks.
plcfbteChpx (bin table for CHP FKPs)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table. This is recorded in all Word
documents.
plcfbtePapx (bin table for PAP FKPs)
Written immediately after the plcfbteChpx. This is recorded in all Word documents.
plcfbteLvc (bin table for LVC FKPs)
Written immediately after the plcfbtePapx. This is recorded in all Word documents.
plcfendRef (endnote reference position table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table if the document contains endnotes
plcfendTxt (endnote text position table)
Written immediately after the plcfendRef if the document contains endnotes
plcffldAtn (table of field positions and statuses for annotation subdocument)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the annotation subdocument
contains fields.
plcffldEdn (table of field positions and statuses for endnote subdocument)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the endnote subdocument
contains fields.
plcffldFtn (table of field positions and statuses for footnote subdocument)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the footnote subdocument
contains fields.
plcffldHdr (table of field positions and statuses for header subdocument)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the header subdocument
contains fields.
plcffldHdrTxbx (table of field positions and statuses for textbox subdocument of
header subdocument)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the textbox subdocument of the
header subdocument contains fields.
plcffldMom (table of field positions and statuses for main document)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table if the main document contains
fields.
plcffldTxbx (table of field positions and statuses for textbox subdocument)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the textbox subdocument
contains fields.
plcffndRef (footnote reference position table)
Written immediately after the stsh if the document contains footnotes
plcffndTxt (footnote text position table)
Written immediately after the plcffndRef if the document contains footnotes
plcfglsy (glossary entry text position table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document stored is a
glossary.
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plcfhdd (header text position table)

Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document contains headers
or footers.
plcfhdrtxbxBkd (header text box break descriptor table)
Written immediately after the plcfhdrtxbxTxt if the header subdocument contains
textboxes.
plcfhdrtxbxTxt (header text box link table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table if the header subdocument
contains textboxes
plcfgram (grammar state table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table. Records state of grammar
checking in a PLCF of SPLS structures.
plcflst (list formats)
Written immediately after the end of the previously recorded, if there are any lists defined
in the document. This begins with a short count of LSTF structures followed by those LSTF
structures.
This is immediately followed by the allocated data hanging off the LSTFs. This data consists
of the array of LVLs for each LSTF. (Each LVL consists of an LVLF followed by two
grpprls and an XST.)
plcflvc (list and outline level table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table during fast save only.
plcfphe (paragraph height table)
Written after the previously recorded table, if paragraph heights were recorded. Only
written during a fast save.
plcfsea (private)
PLCF reserved for private use by Word.
plcfsed (section table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table. Recorded in all Word documents
plcfspl (spelling state table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table. Records state of spell checking in
a PLCF of SPLS structures.
plcftxbxBkd (text box break descriptor table)
Written immediately after the plcftxbxTxt if the document contains textboxes
plcftxbxTxt (text box link table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table if the document contains
textboxes
plcOcx (ocx position table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document contains OLE
controls. Undocumented.
plcspaHdr (header Office drawing table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the header subdocument
contains Office drawings.
plcspaMom (Office drawing table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document contains Office
drawings.
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plcupcRgbuse
Undocumented undo / versioning data
plcupcUsp
Undocumented undo / versioning data
plcfwkb (work book document partition table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document is a master
document.
plflfo (more list formats)
Written immediately after the end of the plcflst and its accompanying data, if there are
any lists defined in the document. This consists first of a PL of LFO records, followed by the
allocated data (if any) hanging off the LFOs. The allocated data consists of the array of
LFOLVLFs for each LFO (and each LFOLVLF is immediately followed by some LVLs).
pms (print merge state)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if information about the print /
mail merge state is recorded for the document
prDrvr (printer driver information)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if a print environment is recorded
for the document.
prEnvLand (print environment in landscape mode)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if a landscape mode print
environment is recorded for this document.
prEnvPort (print environment in portrait mode)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if a portrait mode print
environment is recorded for this document.
routeSlip (mailer routing slip)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if this document has a mailer
routing slip.
sttbAutoCaption (auto caption string table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document contains auto
captions.
sttbCaption (caption title string table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document contains
captions.
sttbfAssoc (table of associated strings)
Table of associated strings.
sttbfAtnBkmk (table of annotation bookmark string names)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document contains
annotations with bookmarks.
sttbfBkmk (table of bookmark name strings)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document contains
bookmarks.
sttbFnm (filename reference string table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document references other
documents.
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sttbfListNames (more list formats)

Written immediately after the end of the plflfo and its accompanying data, if there are
any lists defined in the document. This is a string table containing the list names for each
list. It is parallel with the plcflst, and may contain null strings if the corresponding LST
does not have a list name.
sttbfffn (table of font name strings)
Written immediately after the clx. This is recorded in all Word documents. The sttbfffn
is an sttbf where each string is instead an FFN structure (note that just as for a
Pascal-style string, the first byte in the FFN records the total number of bytes not counting
the count byte itself). The names of the fonts correspond to the ftc codes in the CHP
structure. For example, the first font name listed corresponds is the name for ftc=0.
sttbfRMark (revision mark author string table)
Written immediately after plcfbteLvc, if the document contains revision marks.
sttbfUssr
Undocumented undo / versioning data
sttbGlsy (glossary name string table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table, if the document stored is a
glossary.
sttbGlsyStyle (glossary style name string table)
Written immediately after sttbGlsy, if the document stored is a glossary.
sttbSavedBy (last saved by string table)
Written immediately after the previously recorded table.
sttbttmbd (true type font embedding string table)
Written immediately after the end of the previously recorded structure if the document
contains embedded true type fonts.
stsh (style sheet)
Written immediately after the previous table. This is recorded in all Word documents.
stwUser (macro user storage)
Macro user storage.
uskf
Undocumented undo / versioning data
wss (window state structure)
Written immediately after the end of previously recorded structure, if the document was
saved while a window was open.

Format of the Data Stream

embedded objects-native data
Word embedded object structures are sequentially concatenated if the document contains
embedded objects.
huge PAPXs
The grpprls from PAPXs which are too large to fit in an FKP are sequentially concatenated
as necessary.
pictures
Word picture structures are sequentially concatenated if the document contains pictures.
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Format of the Custom XML Storage (Added in

Word 2007)
This storage specifies the custom XML parts inside of a binary format for Microsoft Word 97.
For additional information on custom XML parts, see the Office Open XML specification section
on the element ―datastoreItem‖.
In the binary format for Microsoft Word 97, the custom XML parts are stored inside a storage
called ―MSODatastore‖. Within this fstorage, zero or more custom XML parts can exist each in
their own storage. Each of these storages is stamped with a unique identifier as its storage
name. An instance of one of these storages contains two streams within it:
1. A stream named item
2. A stream named properties
For information on these two streams, see the Office Open XML specification section on
―Custom XML Data Storage Part‖ and ―Custom XML Data Storage Properties Part‖.

FIB
The FIB contains a "magic word" and pointers to the various other parts of the file, as well as
information about the length of the file. The FIB starts at the beginning of the file. The FIB is
defined in the structure definition section of this document.
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Text
The text of the file starts at fib.fcMin and is usually set to the next 128 byte boundary after
the end of the FIB. The text in a Word document is ASCII text with the following restrictions
(ASCII codes given in decimal):
 Paragraph ends are stored as ASCII 13 (a single <Carriage Return> character). No other
occurrences of this character sequence are allowed.
 Hard line breaks which are not paragraph ends are stored as ASCII 11. Other line break
or word wrap information is not stored.
Hyphens
 Breaking hyphens are stored as ASCII 45 (normal hyphen code).
 Non-required hyphens are ASCII 31.
 Non-breaking hyphens are stored as ASCII 30.
 Non-breaking spaces are stored as 160.
 Normal spaces are ASCII 32.
 Page breaks and Section marks are ASCII 12 (normal form feed); if there's an entry in
the section table, it's a section mark, otherwise it's a page break.
 Column breaks are stored as ASCII 14.
 Tab characters are ASCII 9 (normal).
Fields
 Field begin mark which delimits the beginning of a field is ASCII 19.
 Field end mark which delimits the end of a field is ASCII 21.
 Field separator ,which marks the boundary between the preceding field code text and
following field expansion text within a field, is ASCII 20.
 Field escape character is the '\' character which also serves as the formula mark.
 The cell mark which delimits the end of a cell in a table row is stored as ASCII 7 and has
the fInTable paragraph property set to fTrue (pap.fInTable==1).
 The row mark which delimits the end of a table row is stored as ASCII 7 and has the
fInTable paragraph property and fTtp paragraph property set to fTrue
(pap.fInTable==1 && pap.fTtp==1).
The following ASCII codes are treated as "special" characters when they have the character
property special on (chp.fSpec==1):
ASCII code Special character
0 Current page number
1 Picture
2 Auto numbered footnote reference.
3 Footnote separator character
4 Footnote continuation character
5 Annotation reference
6 Line number
7 Hand Annotation picture (Generated in Pen Windows)
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ASCII code Special character

8 Drawn object
10 Abbreviated date (e.g. ―Wed, Dec 1, 1993‖)
11 Time in hours:minutes:seconds
12 Current section number
14 Abbreviated day of week (e.g. ―Thu‖ for ―Thursday‖)
15 Day of week (e.g. ―Thursday‖)
16 Day short (e.g. ―9‖ for the ninth day of the month)
22 Hour of current time with no leading zero
23 Hour of current time (two digit with leading zero when necessary)
24 Minute of current time with no leading zero
25 Minute of current time(two digit with leading zero when necessary)
26 Seconds of current time
27 AM/PM for current time
28 Current time in hours:minutes:seconds in old format
29 Date M (e.g. ―December 2, 1993‖)
30 Short Date (e.g. ―12/2/93‖)
33 Short Month (e.g. ―12‖ to represent ―December‖)
34 Long Year (e.g. ―1993‖)
35 Short Year (e.g. ―93‖)
36 Abbreviated month (e.g. ―Dec‖ to represent ―December‖)
37 Long month (e.g. ―December‖)
38 Current time in hours:minutes (e.g. ―2:01‖)
39 Long date (e.g. ―Thursday, December 2, 1993‖)
41 Print Merge Helper field

Note The end of a section is also the end of a paragraph. The last character of a section is a
section mark which stands in place of the paragraph mark normally required to end a
paragraph. An exception is made for the last character of a document which is always a
paragraph mark although the end of a document is always an implicit end of section.
If !fib.fComplex, the document text stream is represented by the text beginning at
fib.fcMin up to (but not including) fib.fcMac. Otherwise, the document is represented by
the piece table stored in the file in the data beginning at fib.fcClx.
The document text stream includes text that is part of the main document, plus any text that
exists for the footnote, header, macro, or annotation subdocuments. The sizes of the main
document and the header, footnote, macro and annotation subdocuments are stored in the
fib, in variables:
fib.ccpText, fib.ccpFtn fib.ccpHdr
fib.ccpMcr fib.ccpEdn fib.ccpTxbx
fib.ccpHdrTxbox fib.ccpAtn
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In a non-complex file, this means text of the:

 main document begins at fib.fcMin in the file and continues through
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText.
 footnote subdocument begins at fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText and extends to
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn.
 header subdocument begins at fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn and extends to
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr.
 annotation subdocument begins at
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr and extends to
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+ccpAtn.
 endnote subdocument begins at
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn and extends to
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpEdn.
 textbox subdocument begins at
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn+fib.ccpEdn
and extends to
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpEdn+fib.ccpTxbx.
 header textbox subdocument begins at
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn+fib.ccpEdn+
fib.ccpTxbx and extends to
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpEdn+fib.ccpTxbx+
fib.ccpHdrTxbx.
In a complex, fast-saved file text of the:
 main document must be found by examining the piece table entries from the 0th piece
table entry from the piece table entry that describes cp=fib.ccpText.
 footnote subdocument must be found by examining the piece table entries, beginning with
the one that describes cp=fib.ccpText through the entry that describes
cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn.
 header subdocument must be found by examining the piece table entries, beginning with
the one that describes cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn through the entry that describes
cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr.
 annotation subdocument must be found by examining the piece table entries, beginning
with the one that describes cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr through the
entry that describes cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn.
 endnote subdocument must be found by examining the piece table entries beginning with
the one that describes cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn
through the entry that describes
cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn+fib.ccpEdn.
 textbox subdocument must be found by examining the piece table entries beginning with
the one that describes
cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn+fib.ccpEdn through the
entry that describes cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn+
fib.ccpEdn+fib.ccpTxbx.
 header textbox subdocument must be found by examining the piece table entries
beginning with the one that describes
cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn+fib.ccpEdn+
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fib.ccpTxbx through the entry that describes

cp=fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpAtn+fib.ccpEdn+
fib.ccpTxbx+fib.ccpHdrTxbx.

Character and Paragraph Formatting

Properties
Character and paragraph properties in Word documents are stored in a compressed format.
The information stored on disk is not the properties of a particular sequence of text but the
difference of the properties from a specific reference property.
The PAP is a data structure that holds uncompressed paragraph property information; the CHP
(pronounced "chip") is a structure that holds uncompressed character property information.
Each paragraph in a Word document inherits a default set of paragraph and character
properties from one of the paragraph styles recorded in the style sheet data structure
(STSH).
A particular PAP is converted into its compressed form, the PAPX, by first comparing the pap
for a paragraph with the pap stored in the style sheet for the paragraph's style. Any properties
in the paragraph's PAP that are different from those stored in the style sheet PAP are encoded
as a list of sprms (grpprl). sprms express how the content of the style sheet PAP should be
transformed to create the properties for the paragraph. A PAPX is a variable-length data
structure that begins with a count of words that encodes the PAPX length. It contains an istd
(index to style descriptor) which specifies which style entry in the style sheet contains the
default paragraph and character properties for the paragraph, paragraph height information,
and the list of difference sprms. If the only difference between the paragraph's PAP and the
style's PAP were in the justification code field, which is one byte long, one two-byte sprm,
sprmPJc, would be generated to express that difference; thus the total PAPX size would be 5
bytes. This is better than 54-1 compression since the total size of a PAP is 274 bytes.
To convert a CHP for a sequence of characters contained within a single paragraph into its
compressed form, the CHPX, it's first necessary to know the paragraph style assigned to the
paragraph containing those characters and any character style that may be tagging the
character run. The character properties inherited from the paragraph style are moved into a
buffer. If the chp.istd of the chp to be compressed is not istdNormalChar, the changes
recorded for that character style are applied to the buffer. Then the character properties of the
character sequence are compared with the character properties generated using the
paragraph's style and the run‘s character style. Any properties in the paragraph's CHP that are
different from those stored in the generated CHP are encoded as a list of sprms (grpprl). The
sprms express how the content of the CHP generated from the paragraph and character styles
should be transformed to create the character properties for the text run. A CHPX is a
variable-length data structure that begins with a count of words that encodes the CHPX length
followed by the list of difference sprms.
If one of the bit fields in the CHP to be compressed such as fBold is different from the
reference CHP, you would build a difference sprm using sprmCFBold in the first byte and the
bytes pattern 0x81 in the second byte which signifies that the value of the bit in the CHP to be
compressed is of opposite value from the value stored in the reference CHP. If there was no
difference, sprmCFBold would not be recorded in the grrprl to be generated. If there were
a difference in a field larger than a single bit such as the chp.hps, a sprmCHps would be
generated to record the value of chp.hps in the chp to be compressed. If the chp.hps were
equal in both the chp to be compressed and the reference CHP, sprmCHps would not be
recorded in the grrprl that is generated. If a sequence of characters has the same character
properties and the sequence spans more than one paragraph, it's necessary to examine each
paragraph's properties and to generate a different CHPX every time there is a change of style.
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In Word documents, the fundamental unit of text for which character exception information is
kept is the run of exception text, a contiguous sequence of characters stored on disk that all
have the same exception properties with respect to their underlying style character properties.
Each run would have an entry recorded in a CHPX FKP. If a user never changed the character
properties inherited from the styles used in the document and did a complete save of the
document, although each of those styles may have different properties, the entire document
stream would be one large run of exception text and one CHPX would suffice to describe the
character properties of the entire document.
The fundamental unit of text for which paragraph properties are recorded is the paragraph.
Every paragraph has an entry recorded in a PAPX FKP.
The CHPX FKP and the PAPX FKP have similar physical structures. An FKP is a 512-byte data
structure that is stored in one page of a Word file. At offset 511 is a 1-byte count named crun,
which is a count of runs of exception text for CHPX FKPs and which is a count of paragraphs in
PAPX FKPs. Beginning at offset 0 of the FKP is an array of crun+1 FCs, named rgfc, which
records the beginning and limit FCs of crun runs of exception text or paragraphs.
For CHPX FKPs, immediately following fkp.rgfc is a byte array of crun word offsets to CHPXs
from the beginning of the FKP. This byte array, named rgb, is in 1-to-1 correspondence with
the rgfc.
For PAPX FKPSs, immediately following the fkp.rgfc is an array of 13 byte entries called
BXs. This array called the rgbx is in 1-to-1 correspondence with the rgfc. The first byte of the
ith BX entry contains a single byte field which gives the word offset of the PAPX that belongs
to the paragraph whose beginning in FC space is rgfc[i] and whose limit is rgfc[i+1] in FC
space. The last 12 bytes of the ith BX entry contain a PHE structure that stores the current
paragraph height of the paragraph whose beginning in FC space is rgfc[i] and whose limit is
rgfc[i+1] in FC space.
The fact that the offset to properties stored in the rgb or rgbx is a word offset implies that
CHPXs and PAPXs are stored in FKPs beginning on word boundaries. Since the values stored in
the rgb/rgbx allow random access throughout the FKP, space within an FKP can be conserved
by storing the offset of the same physical CHPX/PAPX in rgb/rgbx entries when several runs
or paragraphs in the FKP have the same properties. Word uses this optimization.
An rgb or rgbx[].b value of 0 is used in another optimization. When an rgb or rgbx[].b
value of 0 is stored in an FKP, it means that instead of referring to a particular CHPX/PAPX in
the FKP the 0 value signals the reader to construct a commonly encountered predefined set of
properties.
For CHPX FKPs a 0 rgb value means the properties of the run of text were exactly equal to the
character properties inherited from the style of the paragraph it was in. For PAPX FKPs, a 0
rgbx[].b value means the paragraph‘s properties were exactly equal to the paragraph
properties of the Normal style (stc==0) and the paragraph contained 1 line of 240 pixels, with
a column width of 7980 dxas.
When new entries are added to an FKP, there must be unallocated space in the middle of the
FKP equal to 5 bytes for CHPXs (size of an FC plus size of one-byte word offset) or 11 bytes for
PAPXs (size of an FC plus the size of a seven byte BX entry), plus the size of the new CHPX or
PAPX if the property being added is not already recorded in the FKP and is not the property
coded with a 0 rgb/rgbx[].b value. To add a new property in a CHPX FKP, existing rgb
entries are moved four bytes to the right in the FKP. To add a new property in a PAPX FKP,
existing rgbx entries are moved four bytes to the right in the FKP. The new FC is added at the
end of the rgfc. The new CHPX or PAPX is recorded on a 2-byte boundary before the
previously recorded properties are stored at the end of the block. The word offset of the
beginning of the CHPX or PAPX is stored as the last entry of the relocated rgb/rgbx[].b, and
finally, the crun stored at offset 511 is incremented. In Word ‘97, PAPXs can be generated
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which are too large to fit in an FKP. In such a case, the grpprl of the PAPX is written to the
data stream and a PAPX is stored in an FKP with that grpprl replaced by a sprmPHugePapx.

Bin Tables
A bin table (plcfbte) partitions the total extent of the Word file that contains text characters
into a set of contiguous intervals marked by an fcFirst and an fcLim. The fcFirst for the
nth interval would be plcfbte.rgfc[n] and the fcLim for the nth interval would be
plcfbte.rgfc[n+1]. Associated with each interval is a BTE. A BTE holds a four-byte PN
(page number) which identifies the FKP page in the file which contains the formatting
information for that interval. A CHPX FKP further partitions an interval into runs of exception
text. A PAPX FKP in a non-complex, full-saved file, partitions the text within intervals into
paragraphs. If a file is in complex format (was fast-saved), the PAPX FKP only records the FCs
within the text preceded by a paragraph mark. Even though a sequence of text may be
between two paragraph end marks, it may reside in a paragraph different from the one defined
by the next paragraph end mark, because the text may have been moved by the user into a
different paragraph. In the logical text stream represented by the document's piece table, the
paragraph mark that follows the moved text is stored in a non-adjacent physical location in the
file.

Style Sheet
A style sheet is a collection of styles. In Word, each document has its own style sheet.
A style is a collection of formatting information with a name. Word 6.0 and later versions
support paragraph and character styles. Versions of Word prior to 6.0 support only paragraph
styles. Character styles have just character formatting. Paragraph styles have both character
and paragraph formatting. The style sheet establishes a correspondence between a style code
and a style definition.
Note: the storage and behavior of styles has changed considerably since WinWord 2.x,
beginning with nFib 63. Some of the differences are:
 Character styles are supported.
 The style code is called an istd, rather than an stc.
 The istd is a short integer, where the stc was a byte.
 The range of the istd is 0-4095, where 4095 is the null style. The range of the stc was
0-256, with 222 as the null style.
 PAPX's have a short istd at the beginning, rather than a byte stc.
 CHPX's are a grpprl, not a CHP.
 Many other changes...
The styles for a document (both paragraph and character styles) are stored in an array in each
document. [The DOD.hplhqstd is a handle to a plex (array) of hq's (handles) to std's (style
descriptions] When new styles are created, they are added to the end of the array. The array
can have unused slots. Some slots at the beginning of the array are reserved for specific
styles, whether they were created yet or not. [Istd (slot) 0 is Normal. Istd 1-9 are Heading 1-9.
Istd 10 is Default Paragraph Font. Istd 11-14 are reserved. So the first non-fixed index is 15
(see stshi.istdMaxFixedWhenSaved.] Paragraph and character styles are stored in the same
array. Each document has a separate array, so the same style will usually [Those styles in
fixed locations in the style sheet will have the same istd's in all documents] have a different
istd in two different documents. Thus style matching between documents must be done by
name (or by sti if the styles are built-in).
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Styles are usually referred to using an istd. The istd is an index into an array of STDs (STyle
Descriptions). A (doc, istd) pair uniquely identifies a style because it tells which style is in
which array.
Parts of a style (for more information, see the STD structure below):
 sti: A style identifier. Built-in styles have a unique sti to indicate which built-in style they
reference. User-defined styles use stiUser.
 stk: The type of style, either paragraph or character.
 istdBase: The style that this style is based on.
 istdNext: The style that should be applied after this one.
 stzName: The name of a style, unique within its style sheet.
 UPX: The difference between this style and the one it is based on.
 UPE: The properties of this style (a PAP, CHP, and/or grpprl).
Every paragraph has a paragraph style. Every character has a character style. The default
paragraph style is Normal (stiNormal, istdNormal). The default character style is Default
Paragraph Font (stiNormalChar, istdNormalChar).
The formatting of a paragraph (the PAP) and a character (the CHP) depend on the paragraph
and character styles applied to them, as well as any additional formatting stored in the FKPs.
The PAP and CHP are constructed in a layered fashion:
For a PAP:
1. An initial PAP is determined by getting the PAP from the paragraph's style.
2. Any paragraph formatting stored in the file (the FKP PAPX's) is then applied to that PAP.
For a CHP:
1. An initial CHP is determined by getting the CHP from the paragraph's style.
2. Properties from the character's style (the UPX.chpx.grpprl) are then applied to that
CHP.
3. Any character formatting stored in the file (the FKP CHPX's) is then applied to that CHP.
Note: the resulting PAP and CHP have fields that indicate what style was applied: PAP.istd,
CHP.istd.
Stylesheet File Format
The style sheet (STSH) is stored in the file in two parts, a STSHI and then an array of STDs. The
STSHI contains general information about the following style sheet, including how many styles
are in it. After the STSHI, each style is written as an STD. Both the STSHI and each STD are
preceded by a ushort that indicates their length.
Field Size Comment
1
cbStshi 2 bytes Size of the following STSHI structure
STSHI (cbStshi) Stylesheet Information
1
For early versions of Word 6.0 files (versions prior to nFib 67), this field was not written. The cbStshi to use for
those file versions is 4 bytes.

Then for each style in the style sheet (stshi.cstd), the following is stored:
cbStd 2 bytes Size of the following STD structure
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STD (cbStd) The style description

STSHI
The STSHI structure, which stores style sheet information has the following format:
typedef struct _STSHI
{
ushort cstd; // Count of styles in stylesheet
ushort cbSTDBaseInFile; // Length of STD Base as stored in a file
BF fStdStylenamesWritten : 1; // Are built-in stylenames stored?
BF : 15; // Spare flags
ushort stiMaxWhenSaved; // Max sti known when this file was written
ushort istdMaxFixedWhenSaved; // How many fixed-index istds are there?
ushort nVerBuiltInNamesWhenSaved; // Current version of built-in stylenames
FTC rgftcStandardChpStsh[iftcCompositeMax]; /* rgftc used by
StandardChpStsh for this document */
ushort cbLSD; /* size of each lsd in mpstilsd. The count of lsd's
is stiMaxWhenSaved */
LSD mpstilsd[stiMax]; /* latent style data
(stiMax == stiMaxWhenSaved upon save!) */
} STSHI;

The cb preceding the STSHI in the file is the length of the STSHI as stored in the file. The
current definition of the STSHI structure might be longer or shorter than that stored in the file,
the style sheet reader routine needs to take this into account.
stshi.cstd: The number of styles in this style sheet. There will be stshi.cstd (cbSTD, STD)
pairs in the file following the STSHI. Note: styles can be empty, i.e. cbSTD==0.
stshi.cbSTDBaseInFile: The STD structure (see below) is divided into a fixed-length "base",
and a variable length part. The stshi.cbSTDBaseInFile indicates the size in bytes of the
fixed-length base of the STD as it was written in this file. If the STD base is grown in a future
version, the file format doesn't change, because the style sheet reader can discard parts it
doesn't know about, or use defaults if the file's STD is not as large as it was expecting.
(Currently, stshi.cbSTDBaseInFile is 8.)
stshi.fStdStylenamesWritten: Previous versions of Word did not store the style name if the
style was a built-in style; Word 6.0 stores the style name for compatibility with future versions.
Note: the built-in style names may need to be "regenerated" if the file is opened in a different
language or if stshi.nVerBuiltInNamesWhenSaved doesn't match the expected value.
stshi.stiMaxWhenSaved: This indicates the last built-in style known to the version of Word
that saved this file.
stshi.istdMaxFixedWhenSaved: Each array of styles has some fixed-index styles at the
beginning. This indicates the number of fixed-index positions reserved in the style sheet when
it was saved.
stshi.nVerBuiltInNamesWhenSaved: Since built-in style names are saved with the
document, this provides a way to see if the saved names are the same "version" as the names
in the version of Word that is loading the file. If not, the built-in style names need to be
"regenerated", i.e. the old names need to be replaced with the new.
stshi.rgftcStandardChpStsh: This is a list of the default fonts for this style sheet. The first is
for ASCII characters (0-127), the second is for East Asian characters, and the third is the
default font for non-East Asian, non-ASCII text. See notes on sprmCRgftcX for details.
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Introduced in Word 2003:

stshi.cbLSD: This is the size of each LSD in mpstilsd. The count of LSD's is
stiMaxWhenSaved.
stshi.mpstilsd[stiMax]. Latent style data (stiMax==stiMaxWhenSaved upon save!)
An array of LSD structures:
typedef struct _LSD
{
union
{
unsigned long grflsd;
struct
{
BFL fLocked : 1;
BFL : 31;
};
};
} LSD;

fLocked indicates the style is currently locked, meaning it cannot be used in the document as
a result of the Document Protection feature. The index into mpstilsd corresponds to the
index of the style that the LSD structure affects (see std.sti below).
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STD
Each individual style description is stored in an STD structure as follows:
typedef struct _STD
{ // Base part of STD:
ushort sti : 12; /* invariant style identifier */
ushort fScratch : 1; /* spare field for any temporary use, always
reset back to zero! */
ushort fInvalHeight : 1; /* PHEs of all text with this style are wrong */
ushort fHasUpe : 1; /* UPEs have been generated */
ushort fMassCopy : 1; /* std has been mass-copied; if unused at save time,
style should be deleted */
ushort stk : 4; /* style kind */
ushort istdBase : 12; /* base style */
ushort cupx : 4; /* number of UPXs (and UPEs) */
ushort istdNext : 12; /* next style */
ushort bchUpe; /* offset to end of upx's, start of upe's */
ushort fAutoRedef : 1; /* auto redefine style when appropriate */
ushort fHidden: 1; /* hidden from UI? */

// These 2 flags are caches for the

// information calc'd in Apply97LidsToIstd()
ushort f97LidsSet: 1; /* style already has valid sprmCRgLidX_80 in it */
ushort fCopyLang: 1; /* if f97LidsSet, says whether we copied the lid from
sprmCRgLidX into sprmCRgLidX_80 or whether we got
rid of sprmCRgLidX_80*/
ushort fPersonalCompose: 1; /* HTML Threading compose style */
ushort fPersonalReply: 1; /* HTML Threading reply style */
ushort fPersonal: 1; /* HTML Threading - another user's personal style */
ushort fNoHtmlExport:1; /* Do not export this style to HTML/CSS */
ushort fSemiHidden: 1; /* Do not show this style in long style lists */
ushort fLocked:1; /* locked style? */
ushort fInternalUse:1; /* Style is used by a word feature, e.g. footnote*/
ushort : 5; /* unused bits */
ushort istdLink : 12; /* is this style linked to another? */
#ifdef STYLERM
ushort fHasOriginalStyle: 1; /* style has RevMarking history */
ushort fSpare : 3;
#else
ushort fSpare : 4;
#endif //STYLERM
RSID rsid; /* marks during merge which doc's style changed */

ushort iftcHtml : 3; /* used temporarily during html export */

ushort unused : 13;

// Variable length part of STD:

XCHAR xstzName[2]; /* sub-names are separated by chDelimStyle */
/* char grupx[]; */
/* UPEs are not stored on the file; they are a cache of the based-on chain */
/* char grupe[]; */
} STD;
The cb preceding each STD is the length of the data, which includes all of the STD except the
grupe array (which is derived after the file is read in, by building each UPE from the base style
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UPE plus the exceptions in the UPX.) A cb of zero indicates an empty slot in the style array, i.e.
no style has that istd. Note: the STD structure may be longer or shorter than the one stored
in the file; stshi.cbSTDBaseInFile indicates the length of the base of the STD (up to
stzName) as stored in the file. The style sheet reader routine must take this into account.
The variable-length part of the STD has three variable-length subparts, the xstzName, the
grupx, and the grupe. Since this doesn‘t fit well into a C structure declaration, some
processing is needed to figure out where one part stops and the next part begins. An important
note is that all variable-length parts and subparts of the STD begin on EVEN-BYTE OFFSETS
within the STD, even if the length of the preceding variable-length part was odd.
std.sti: The sti is an identifier of which built-in style this is, or stiUser for a user-defined
style. An sti is intended to be permanent throughout versions of Word, although new sti's
may be added in new versions. The sti definitions are:
#define stiNormalPara 0 // 0x0000
#define stiHeading1 1 // 0x0001
#define stiHeading2 2 // 0x0002
#define stiHeading3 3 // 0x0003
#define stiHeading4 4 // 0x0004
#define stiHeading5 5 // 0x0005
#define stiHeading6 6 // 0x0006
#define stiHeading7 7 // 0x0007
#define stiHeading8 8 // 0x0008
#define stiHeading9 9 // 0x0009
#define stiHeadingFirst stiHeading1
#define stiHeadingLast stiHeading9

#define stiIndex1 10 // 0x000A

#define stiIndex2 11 // 0x000B
#define stiIndex3 12 // 0x000C
#define stiIndex4 13 // 0x000D
#define stiIndex5 14 // 0x000E
#define stiIndex6 15 // 0x000F
#define stiIndex7 16 // 0x0010
#define stiIndex8 17 // 0x0011
#define stiIndex9 18 // 0x0012
#define stiIndexFirst stiIndex1
#define stiIndexLast stiIndex9

#define stiToc1 19 // 0x0013

#define stiToc2 20 // 0x0014
#define stiToc3 21 // 0x0015
#define stiToc4 22 // 0x0016
#define stiToc5 23 // 0x0017
#define stiToc6 24 // 0x0018
#define stiToc7 25 // 0x0019
#define stiToc8 26 // 0x001A
#define stiToc9 27 // 0x001B
#define stiTocFirst stiToc1
#define stiTocLast stiToc9
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#define stiNormIndent 28 // 0x001C

#define stiFtnText 29 // 0x001D
#define stiAtnText 30 // 0x001E
#define stiHeader 31 // 0x001F
#define stiFooter 32 // 0x0020
#define stiIndexHeading 33 // 0x0021
#define stiCaption 34 // 0x0022
#define stiToCaption 35 // 0x0023
#define stiEnvAddr 36 // 0x0024
#define stiEnvRet 37 // 0x0025
#define stiFtnRef 38 // 0x0026 char style
#define stiAtnRef 39 // 0x0027 char style
#define stiLnn 40 // 0x0028 char style
#define stiPgn 41 // 0x0029 char style
#define stiEdnRef 42 // 0x002A char style
#define stiEdnText 43 // 0x002B
#define stiToa 44 // 0x002C
#define stiMacro 45 // 0x002D
#define stiToaHeading 46 // 0x002E
#define stiList 47 // 0x002F
#define stiListBullet 48 // 0x0030
#define stiListNumber 49 // 0x0031
#define stiList2 50 // 0x0032
#define stiList3 51 // 0x0033
#define stiList4 52 // 0x0034
#define stiList5 53 // 0x0035
#define stiListBullet2 54 // 0x0036
#define stiListBullet3 55 // 0x0037
#define stiListBullet4 56 // 0x0038
#define stiListBullet5 57 // 0x0039
#define stiListNumber2 58 // 0x003A
#define stiListNumber3 59 // 0x003B
#define stiListNumber4 60 // 0x003C
#define stiListNumber5 61 // 0x003D
#define stiTitle 62 // 0x003E
#define stiClosing 63 // 0x003F
#define stiSignature 64 // 0x0040
#define stiNormalChar 65 // 0x0041 char style
#define stiBodyText 66 // 0x0042
#define stiBodyTextInd 67 // 0x0043
#define stiListCont 68 // 0x0044
#define stiListCont2 69 // 0x0045
#define stiListCont3 70 // 0x0046
#define stiListCont4 71 // 0x0047
#define stiListCont5 72 // 0x0048
#define stiMsgHeader 73 // 0x0049
#define stiSubtitle 74 // 0x004A
#define stiSalutation 75 // 0x004B
#define stiDate 76 // 0x004C
#define stiBodyText1I 77 // 0x004D
#define stiBodyText1I2 78 // 0x004E
#define stiNoteHeading 79 // 0x004F
#define stiBodyText2 80 // 0x0050
#define stiBodyText3 81 // 0x0051
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#define stiBodyTextInd2 82 // 0x0052

#define stiBodyTextInd3 83 // 0x0053
#define stiBlockQuote 84 // 0x0054
#define stiHyperlink 85 // 0x0055 char style
#define stiHyperlinkFollowed 86 // 0x0056 char style
#define stiStrong 87 // 0x0057 char style
#define stiEmphasis 88 // 0x0058 char style
#define stiNavPane 89 // 0x0059 char style
#define stiPlainText 90 // 0x005A
#define stiAutoSig 91 // 0x005B
#define stiFormTop 92 // 0x005C
#define stiFormBottom 93 // 0x005D
#define stiHtmlNormal 94 // 0x005E
#define stiHtmlAcronym 95 // 0x005F char style
#define stiHtmlAddress 96 // 0x0060
#define stiHtmlCite 97 // 0x0061 char style
#define stiHtmlCode 98 // 0x0062 char style
#define stiHtmlDfn 99 // 0x0063 char style
#define stiHtmlKbd 100 // 0x0064 char style
#define stiHtmlPre 101 // 0x0065
#define stiHtmlSamp 102 // 0x0066 char style
#define stiHtmlTt 103 // 0x0067 char style
#define stiHtmlVar 104 // 0x0068 char style
#define stiNormalTable 105 // 0x0069 table style
#define stiAtnSubject 106 // 0x0070

The following Table and List styles were added in Word 2002:
#define stiNormalList 107 // 0x0071 list style
#define stiOutlineList1 108 // 0x0072 list style (1 / a / i)
#define stiOutlineList2 109 // 0x0073 list style (1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1)
#define stiOutlineList3 110 // 0x0074 list style (Article / Section)
#define stiListStyleFirst stiNormalList // First default list style
#define stiListStyleLast stiOutlineList3 // Last default list style

#define stiTableSimple1 111

#define stiTableSimple2 112
#define stiTableSimple3 113
#define stiTableClassic1 114
#define stiTableClassic2 115
#define stiTableClassic3 116
#define stiTableClassic4 117
#define stiTableColorful1 118
#define stiTableColorful2 119
#define stiTableColorful3 120
#define stiTableColumns1 121
#define stiTableColumns2 122
#define stiTableColumns3 123
#define stiTableColumns4 124
#define stiTableColumns5 125
#define stiTableGrid1 126
#define stiTableGrid2 127
#define stiTableGrid3 128
#define stiTableGrid4 129
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#define stiTableGrid5 130

#define stiTableGrid6 131
#define stiTableGrid7 132
#define stiTableGrid8 133
#define stiTableList1 134
#define stiTableList2 135
#define stiTableList3 136
#define stiTableList4 137
#define stiTableList5 138
#define stiTableList6 139
#define stiTableList7 140
#define stiTableList8 141
#define stiTable3DFx1 142
#define stiTable3DFx2 143
#define stiTable3DFx3 144
#define stiTableContemporary 145
#define stiTableElegant 146
#define stiTableProfessional 147
#define stiTableSubtle1 148
#define stiTableSubtle2 149
#define stiTableWeb1 150
#define stiTableWeb2 151
#define stiTableWeb3 152
#define stiTableFirst stiTableSimple1
#define stiTableLast stiTableWeb3
#define stiAcetate 153
#define stiTableGrid 154
#define stiTableTheme 155

#define stiMax 156 // number of defined sti's

#define stiChpMax 19 // number of defined char style sti's
#define stiPapMax 87 // number of defined para style sti's
#define stiTableMax 1 // number of defined table style sti's

#define stiUser 0x0ffe // user styles are distinguished by name#define

stiNil 0x0fff // max for 12 bits
See below for the names of these styles.
std.stk: The type of each style is indicated by std.stk. The types currently in use are:
stkPara 1 A paragraph style
stkChar 2 A character style
stkTable 3 A table style
stkList 4 A list style
More style types may exist in the future, so styles of an unknown type should be discarded.
std.istdBase: The style that this style is based on. A style is always based on another style or
the null style (istdNil). Following a "chain" of based-on styles will always end at the null
style, because a based-on chain cannot have a loop in it. A style can have up to 11 "ancestors"
in its based-on chain, including the null style. A style's definition is built up from the style that
it is based on. See std.cupx, std.grupx, std.grupe.
std.istdNext: The style to apply after the current one. For a paragraph style, this is the style
to apply when Enter is pressed at the end of a paragraph. For a character style, the next style
is essentially ignored, but should be the same as the current style.
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std.xstzName: The name of the style, including aliases. The name is stored as an xstz
(preceded by a length byte, followed by a null-terminator.) A style name can contain multiple
"aliases", separated by commas. Aliases are alternate names for the same style (e.g. a style
named "a,b,c" has three aliases, and can be referred to by "a", "b", or "c", or any
combination.) WinWord 2.x did not have aliases, but Word 5.x for the Macintosh did. If a style
is a built-in style, the built-in style name is always stored first.
All names (and aliases) must be unique within a style sheet (e.g. styles "a,b" and "b,c" should
not exist in the same style sheet, as "b" matches multiple style names.)
A style name (including all its aliases and comma separators) can be up to 253 characters long.
So the xstz format of that name can be up to 255 characters. Style names are case sensitive.
The built-in style names (corresponding to each sti listed previously) are defined for each
language version of Word. For English USA documents, the names are:
1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1 1 / a / i Article / Section
Balloon Text Block Text Body Text
Body Text 2 Body Text 3 Body Text First Indent
Body Text First Indent 2 Body Text Indent Body Text Indent 2
Body Text Indent 3 Caption Closing
Comment Reference Comment Subject Comment Text
Date Default Paragraph Font Document Map
E-mail Signature Emphasis Endnote Reference
Endnote Text Envelope Address Envelope Return
FollowedHyperlink Footer Footnote Reference
Footnote Text Header Heading 1
Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4
Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 7
Heading 8 Heading 9 HTML Acronym
HTML Address HTML Cite HTML Code
HTML Definition HTML Keyboard HTML Preformatted
HTML Sample HTML Typewriter HTML Variable
Hyperlink Index 1 Index 2
Index 3 Index 4 Index 5
Index 6 Index 7 Index 8
Index 9 Index Heading Line Number
List List 2 List 3
List 4 List 5 List Bullet
List Bullet 2 List Bullet 3 List Bullet 4
List Bullet 5 List Continue List Continue 2
List Continue 3 List Continue 4 List Continue 5
List Number List Number 2 List Number 3
List Number 4 List Number 5 Macro Text
Message Header No List Normal
Normal (Web) Normal Indent Note Heading
Page Number Plain Text Salutation
Signature Strong Subtitle
Table 3D effects 1 Table 3D effects 2 Table 3D effects 3
Table Classic 1 Table Classic 2 Table Classic 3
Table Classic 4 Table Colorful 1 Table Colorful 2
Table Colorful 3 Table Columns 1 Table Columns 2
Table Columns 3 Table Columns 4 Table Columns 5
Table Contemporary Table Elegant Table Grid
Table Grid 1 Table Grid 2 Table Grid 3
Table Grid 4 Table Grid 5 Table Grid 6
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Table Grid 7 Table Grid 8 Table List 1

Table List 2 Table List 3 Table List 4
Table List 5 Table List 6 Table List 7
Table List 8 Table Normal Table of Authorities
Table of Figures Table Professional Table Simple 1
Table Simple 2 Table Simple 3 Table Subtle 1
Table Subtle 2 Table Theme Table Web 1
Table Web 2 Table Web 3 Title
TOA Heading TOC 1 TOC 2
TOC 3 TOC 4 TOC 5
TOC 6 TOC 7 TOC 8
TOC 9

std.cupx: This is the number of UPXs in the std.grupx array. See below.
std.grupx: This is an array [More accurately a ―group‖, because each of the elements (UPXs)
in the array is variable-length] of variable-length UPXs, with std.cupx UPXs in the array. This
array begins after the variable-length xstzName field, at the next even-byte offset within the
STD. A UPX (Universal Property eXception) describes the difference in formatting of this style
as compared to its based-on style. The UPX structure looks like this:
typedef union _UPX
{
struct
{
uchar grpprl[cbMaxGrpprlStyleChpx];
} chpx;
struct
{
ushort istd;
uchar grpprl[cbMaxGrpprlStylePapx];
} papx;
struct
{
uchar grpprl[cbMaxGrpprlForTaps * 8]; // enough for 8 full cnf's
} tapx;
#ifdef STYLERM
UPDRM rm;
#endif //STYLERM
uchar rgb[1];
} UPX;

Each UPX stored in a file is not a complete UPX, rather it is a UPX with all trailing zero bytes
lopped off, and preceded by a ushort length field. So it is stored like:
Field Size Comment
cbUPX 2 bytes Size of the following UPX structure
UPX (cbUPX) Nonzero prefix of a UPX structure

Each UPX begins on an even-byte offset within the STD, even if the length of the previous UPX
(cbUPX) was odd.
The meaning of each UPX depends on the style type (std.stk). For a paragraph style,
std.cupx=2. The first UPX is a paragraph UPX (UPX.papx) and the second UPX is a character
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UPX (UPX.chpx). For a character style, std.cupx=1, and that UPX is a character UPX
(UPX.chpx). Note that new UPXs may be added in the future, so std.cupx might be larger
than expected. Any UPXs past those expected should be discarded. For a list style,
std.cupx=1. The UPX is a paragraph UPX (UPX.papx). For a table style, std.cupx=3. The
first UPX is a table UPX (UPX.tapx), the second UPX is a paragraph UPX (UPX.papx), and the
third UPX is a character UPX (UPX.chpx). In addition, each style type can contain an additional
UPX containing revision mark information, which is not documented.
The grpprl within each UPX contains the differences of this property type for this style from
the UPE of that property type for the based on style. For example, if two paragraph styles, A
and B, were identical except that B was bold where A was not, and B was based on A, B would
have two UPXs, where the paragraph UPX would have an empty grpprl [Note that the
UPX.papx contains both a grpprl and an istd. Even if the grpprl is empty, the istd is still
needed.], and the character UPX would have a bold sprm in the grpprl. Thus B looks just like
A (since B is based on A), with the exception that B is bold.
std.grupe: This is an array (group) of variable-length UPEs. These are not stored in the
file! Rather, they are constructed using the std.istdBase and std.grupx fields. A UPE
(Universal Property Expansion) describes the ―end-result‖ of the property formatting, i.e. what
the style looks like. The UPE structure is the non-zero prefix of a UPD structure. The UPD
structure looks like this:
typedef union _UPD
{
PAP pap;
CHP chp;
TAPS taps;
struct
{
ushort istd;
uchar cbGrpprl;
uchar grpprl[cbMaxGrpprlStyleChpx];
} chpx;
struct
{
ushort istd;
uchar cbGrpprl;
uchar grpprl[cbMaxGrpprlStylePapx];
} papx;
#ifdef STYLERM
UPDRM rm;
#endif //STYLERM
} UPD;

The std.grupe and std.grupx arrays are similar: there is one UPE for each UPX, and
internally they are stored similarly (a length ushort followed by a non-zero prefix). Note: UPEs
are not stored in the file. The meaning of each UPE depends on the style type (std.sgc). For
a paragraph style, the first UPE is a PAP (UPE.pap) and the second UPE is a CHP (UPE.chp).
For a character style, the first UPE is a CHPX (UPE.chpx). List styles have one UPE, which is
a PAPX (UPE.papx). For a table style the first UPE is a table UPE (UPE.taps), the second UPE
is a paragraph UPE (UPE.pap), and the third UPE is a character UPE (UPE.chp). In addition,
each style type can contain an additional UPE containing revision mark information, which is
not documented.
The UPEs for a style are constructed by taking the UPEs from the based-on style, and applying
the UPXs to them. If the UPEs for the based-on style haven‘t yet been constructed, that style‘s
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UPE needs to be constructed first. Eventually by following the based-on chain, a style will be
based on the null style (istdNil). The UPEs for the null style are predefined:
 The UPE.pap for the null style is all zeros, except fWidowControl which is 1, dyaLine
which is 240, and fMultLinespace which is 1.
 The UPE.chp for the null style is all zeros, except istd which is 10 (istdNormalChar),
hps which is 20, lid which is 0x0400, and ftc which is set to the
STSHI.ftcStandardChpStsh.
 The UPE.chpx for the null style has an istd of zero, a cbGrpprl of zero (and an empty
grpprl).
So, for a paragraph style, the first UPE is a UPE.pap. It can be constructed by starting with the
first UPE from the based-on style (std.istdBase), and then applying the first UPX
(UPX.papx) in std.grupx to that UPE. To apply a UPX.papx to a UPE.pap, set
UPE.pap.istd equal to UPX.papx.istd, and then apply the UPX.papx.grpprl to
UPE.pap. Similarly, the second UPE is a UPE.chp. It can be constructed by starting with the
second UPE from the based-on style, and then applying the second UPX (UPX.chpx) in
std.grupx to that UPE. To apply a UPX.chpx to a UPE.chp, apply the UPX.chpx.grpprl to
UPE.chp. Note: a UPE.chp for a paragraph style should always have
UPE.chp.istd==istdNormalChar.
For a character style, the first (and only) UPE (a UPE.chpx) can be constructed by starting
with the first UPE from the based-on style (std.istdBase), and then applying the first UPX
(UPX.chpx) in std.grupx to that UPE. To apply a UPX.chpx to a UPE.chpx, take the
grpprl in UPE.chpx.grpprl (which has a length of UPE.chpx.cbGrpprl) and merge the
grpprl in UPX.chpx.grpprl into it. Merging grpprls can be difficult, but for character
styles it is easy because no prls in character style grpprls should interact with each other.
Each prl from the source (the UPX.chpx.grpprl) should be inserted into the destination
(the UPE.chpx.grpprl) so the sprm of each prl is in increasing order, and any prls with
the same sprm are replaced by the prl in the source. UPE.chpx.cbGrpprl is then set to the
length of resulting grpprl, and UPE.chpx.istd is set to the style‘s istd.
For a list style, the first (and only) UPE (a UPE.papx) can be constructed by starting with the
first UPE from the based-on style (std.istdBase), and then applying the first UPX
(UPX.papx) in std.grupx to that UPE. To apply a UPX.papx to a UPE.papx, take the
grpprl in UPE.papx.grpprl (which has a length of UPE.papx.cbGrpprl) and merge the
grpprl in UPX.papx.grpprl into it. Merging grpprls can be difficult. Each prl from the
source (the UPX.papx.grpprl) should be inserted into the destination (the
UPE.papx.grpprl) so the sprm of each prl is in increasing order, and any prls with the
same sprm are replaced by the prl in the source. UPE.papx.cbGrpprl is then set to the
length of resulting grpprl, and UPE.papx.istd is set to the style‘s istd.
So, for a table style, the first UPE is a UPE.taps. It can be constructed by starting with the first
UPE from the based-on style (std.istdBase), and then applying the first UPX (UPX.tapx) in
std.grupx to that UPE. To apply a UPX.tapx to a UPE.taps, set UPE.taps.istd equal to
UPX.tapx.istd, and then apply the UPX.tapx.grpprl to UPE.taps. The second UPE is a
UPE.pap. It can be constructed by starting with the first UPE from the based-on style
(std.istdBase), and then applying the first UPX (UPX.papx) in std.grupx to that UPE. To
apply a UPX.papx to a UPE.pap, set UPE.pap.istd equal to UPX.papx.istd, and then
apply the UPX.papx.grpprl to UPE.pap. Similarly, the third UPE is a UPE.chp. It can be
constructed by starting with the second UPE from the based-on style, and then applying the
second UPX (UPX.chpx) in std.grupx to that UPE. To apply a UPX.chpx to a UPE.chp,
apply the UPX.chpx.grpprl to UPE.chp. Note: a UPE.chp for a table style should always
have UPE.chp.istd==istdNormalChar.
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List Tables
Word 97 and later versions store paragraph numbering information very differently from Word
6.0. In Word 6.0, all information for a paragraph was stored in that paragraph‘s pap.anld. In
Word 97 and later versions, the pap only contains two values: a short ilfo and a byte ilvl,
which indicate which list the paragraph belongs to and which level of that list it is part of,
respectively. The ilfo is actually an index into one of the document‘s list tables: the pllfo,
and the paragraph gets most of its information about appearance from the list tables.
There are three list tables in a word document: the rglst, the hpllfo, and the
hsttbListNames. They are described below in greater detail, and the precise formats of
several of these structures (the LSTF, LVLF, LFO, and LFOLVL) are listed in the appendix.

LST Records and the rglst

The LST structure is where most of the list appearance data is stored. An LST consists of two
main parts:
1. An LSTF, which is stored on disk and contains formatting properties which apply to the
entire list, such as whether the list is simple or multilevel, the list‘s unique list index and
template code, the istd‘s (see Stylesheet above) of the styles (if any) that each level in
the list is linked to, and a number of Word 6.0 compatibility options.
2. An array of LVL structures, which describe the appearance of each individual level in the
LST.
A LVL structure contains two parts:
1. An LVLF, which stores all static data such as the start-at value for the list level, the
numbering type (arabic or roman), the alignment (left, right or centered) of the number,
and several Word 6.0 compatibility options.
2. A set of pointers to variable length data:
(a) a grpprlChpx, which sets character formatting to the paragraph number text,
(b) a grpprlPapx, which sets paragraph formatting to the paragraph containing the
number, such as indenting and tab information
(c) the number text itself.
Word writes out the rglst as the plcflst by writing out a short integer containing the
number of LST structures to be written; followed by an enumeration of the rglst, writing out
each LSTF structure. It then enumerates through the rglst again, deciding, for each LST,
whether it has one level (LSTF.fSimpleList) or nine levels (!LSTF.fSimpleList). It then
writes the appropriate number of LVL structures as described below.
When Word writes out an LVL structure, it first writes out the LVLF, followed by the
grpprlPapx (of LVLF.cbGrpprlPapx bytes in length), followed by the grpprlChpx (of
length LVLF.cbGrpprlChpx), and an XCHAR string with the number text, preceded by an
XCHAR containing the string‘s length.
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List Names and the sttbListNames

The string table containing the List Names is by far the least significant of the three list tables.
Most lists do not have names, and the names are only useful to users of Visual Basic for
Applications (VBA). If this list has a name, however, it is in this table: the table is a parallel
array with the rglst above, and will contain an empty string for any list which does not have
a list name.

LFO Records and the pllfo

The LFO structure serves primarily as a level of indirection between the paragraph and the
LST, but also can be used to override certain features of the list formats ( LFO stands for List
Format Override). An LFO consists of two main parts:
(1) the List ID of the list (LST record) to which this LFO belongs.
(2) an array of overrides to the formatting in that LST.
For the vast majority of LFOs, there are no overrides, but if there are any, they reside in an
array of LFOLVL structures—one LFOLVL per level of the LST to be overridden. An LFOLVL
contains a set of flags to indicate whether just the start-at value of the LST is overridden, or
whether just the formatting is overridden, or both, as well as either a start-at value or a
pointer to a LVL record, depending upon the values of the flags. Note: if the LFOLVL says the
start-at value should be overridden, what that means is that the FIRST paragraph in the
document with this LFO should have a number equal exactly to that start-at value, but any
subsequent paragraphs should just follow the previous paragraph in the sequence. Also, if
LFOLVL.fFormatting and LFOLVL.fStartAt are both true (rare) then LFOLVL.iStartAt
should be ignored in favor of the iStartAt value from the corresponding LVL.
Word writes out the pllfo first by writing out a PL of LFO structures. It then enumerates
through each LFO to figure out how many LFOLVLs each one has (LFO.clfolvl), and writes
out, in order, each LFOLVL structure followed by its corresponding LVL structure (if
LFOLVL.fFormatting is set).
Paragraph List Formatting
Given a paragraph and its corresponding PAP, the following process must be followed to find
out the paragraph‘s list information:
1. Using the pap.ilfo, look up the LFO record in the pllfo with that (1-based) index.
2. Using the LFO, and the pap.ilvl, check to see if there are any overrides for this particular
level. If so, and if the override pertains to both formatting and start-at value, use the LVL
record from the correct LFOLVL in the LFO, and skip to step 5.
3. If the override does not pertain to either formatting or start-at value, look up the LST for
this list. Using the LFO‘s List ID, search the rglst for the LST with that List ID.
4. Now, take from this LST any information (formatting or start-at value) still needed after
consulting the LFO.
5. Once the correct LVL record is obtained, apply the lvl.grpprlPapx to the PAP. It may
adjust the indents and tab settings for the paragraph.
6. Use the other information in the LVL, such as the start at, number text, and grpprlChpx,
to determine the appearance of the actual paragraph number text.
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SPRM Definitions
A sprm is an instruction to modify one or more properties within one of the property defining
data structures (CHP, PAP, TAP, SEP, or PIC). A sprm is a two-byte opcode at offset 0 which
identifies the operation to be performed. If necessary information for the operation can always
be expressed with a fixed length parameter, the fixed length parameter is recorded
immediately after the opcode beginning at offset 2. The length of a fixed length sprm is always
2 plus the size of the sprm‘s parameter. If the parameter for the sprm is variable length, the
count of bytes of the following parameter is stored in the byte at offset 2, followed by the
parameter at offset 3.
Three sprms -- sprmPChgTabs, sprmTDefTable, and sprmTDefTable10 -- can be longer
than 256 bytes. The method for calculating the length of sprmPChgTabs is recorded below
with the description of the sprm. For sprmTDefTable and sprmTDefTable10, the length of
the parameter plus 1 is recorded in the two bytes beginning at offset 2.
For all other variable length sprms, the total length of the sprm is the count recorded at offset
2 plus three (2 for the sprm + 1 for the count byte). The parameter immediately follows the
count.
The sprm value encodes information on the size of the operand, the type of sprm (PAP, CHP,
etc), and whether the sprm requires special handling (in cases where a property value isn‘t
simply replaced).
Sprm bits
(0 = low) Value Details
0-8 ispmd Unique identifier within sgc group
9 fSpec sprm requires special handling
10-12 sgc sprm group; type of sprm (PAP, CHP, etc)
13-15 spra Size of sprm argument (see following table for values)

sgc value Type of sprm

1 PAP
2 CHP
3 PIC
4 SEP
5 TAP

spra value Operand size

0 1 byte (operand affects 1 bit)
1 1 byte
2 2 bytes
3 4 bytes
4 2 bytes
5 2 bytes
6 Variable length -- following byte is size of operand
7 3 bytes

When parsing a grpprl, you can use the sprm‘s spra value to determine how many bytes are
used by that sprm; it also enables you to skip over sprms you don‘t handle.
Unless otherwise noted, when a sprm is applied to a property the sprm's parameter changes
the old value of the property in question to the value stored in the sprm parameter.
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Paragraph SPRMs
Parameter
Name sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmPIstd 0x4600 pap.istd istd short

(style code)

sprmPIstdPermute 0xC601 pap.istd permutation vector variable

(see below) length

sprmPIncLvl 0x2602 pap.istd, difference between byte

pap.lvl istd of base PAP and
istd of PAP to be
produced (see
below)

sprmPJc 0x2461 change pap.jc jc (justification) spraByte

In Word 2000,
justification is relative to
text direction (left is left
for left-to-right text and
right for right-to-left
text).

sprmPJc80 0x2403 change pap.jc jc (justification) spraByte

(bi-directional Word 97
style)

sprmPFSideBySide 0x2404 pap.fSideBySide 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFKeep 0x2405 pap.fKeep 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFKeepFollow 0x2406 pap.fKeepFollow 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFPageBreakBefore 0x2407 pap.fPageBreakBefore 0 or 1 byte

sprmPBrcl 0x2408 pap.brcl brcl byte

sprmPBrcp 0x2409 pap.brcp brcp byte

sprmPIlvl 0x260A pap.ilvl ilvl byte

sprmPIlfo 0x460B pap.ilfo ilfo short

(list index)

sprmPFNoLineNumb 0x240C pap.fNoLnn 0 or 1 byte

sprmPChgTabsPapx 0xC60D pap.itbdMac, complex variable

pap.rgdxaTab, (see below) length
pap.rgtbd
sprmPDxaLeft 0x845e change pap.dxaLeft dxa Word (2
bytes)
In Word 2000, dxaLeft is
relative to text direction
(see pap.dxaLeft
definition).

sprmPDxaLeft80 0x840f change pap.dxaLeft dxa word (2 bytes)

sprmPDxaLeft1 0x8460 change pap.dxaLeft1 dxa word (2 bytes)

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Parameter
Name sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmPDxaLeft180 0x8411 change pap.dxaLeft1 for dxa word (2 bytes)

Word 97

sprmPDxaRight 0x845d change pap.dxaRight dxa word (2 bytes)

In Word 2000, dxaRight

is relative to text
direction (see
pap.dxaLeft definition).

sprmPDxaRight80 0x840e change pap.dxaRight dxa word (2 bytes)

(bi-directional Word 97
style)

sprmPDxcLeft 0x4456 change pap.dxcLeft dxa word (2 bytes)

sprmPDxcLeft1 0x4457 change pap.dxcLeft1 dxa word (2 bytes)

sprmPDxcRight 0x4455 change pap.dxcRight dxa word (2 bytes)

sprmPNest 0x465f pap.dxaLeft dxa (see below) word (2 bytes)

sprmPNest80 0x4610 pap.dxaLeft dxa (see below) word (2 bytes)

sprmPDyaLine 0x6412 pap.lspd an LSPD, a long word long

structure consisting
of a short of dyaLine
followed by a short of
fMultLinespace
(see below)

sprmPDyaBefore 0xA413 pap.dyaBefore dya word

sprmPDyaAfter 0xA414 pap.dyaAfter dya word

sprmPFDyaAfterAuto 0x245c change 1 or 0 byte

pap.fDyaAfterAuto

sprmPFDyaBeforeAuto 0x245b change 1 or 0 byte

pap.fDyaBeforeAuto

sprmPDylAfter 0x4459 change pap.dylAfter short word (2 bytes)

sprmPDylBefore 0x4458 change pap.dylBefore short word (2 bytes)

sprmPChgTabs 0xC615 pap.itbdMac, complex (see below) variable

pap.rgdxaTab, length
pap.rgtbd
sprmPFInTable 0x2416 pap.fInTable 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFTtp 0x2417 pap.fTtp 0 or 1 byte

sprmPDxaAbs 0x8418 pap.dxaAbs dxa word

sprmPDyaAbs 0x8419 pap.dyaAbs dya word

sprmPDxaWidth 0x841A pap.dxaWidth dxa word

sprmPPc 0x261B pap.pcHorz, complex (see below) byte

pap.pcVert
sprmPBrcTop10 0x461C pap.brcTop BRC10 word
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Parameter
Name sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmPBrcLeft10 0x461D pap.brcLeft BRC10 word

sprmPBrcBottom10 0x461E pap.brcBottom BRC10 word

sprmPBrcRight10 0x461F pap.brcRight BRC10 word

sprmPBrcBetween10 0x4620 pap.brcBetween BRC10 word

sprmPBrcBar10 0x4621 pap.brcBar BRC10 word

sprmPDxaFromText10 0x4622 pap.dxaFromText dxa word

sprmPWr 0x2423 pap.wr wr (see description of byte

PAP for definition)

sprmPBrcBar 0xc653 change pap bar border BRC variable

length

sprmPBrcBar70 0x4629 change pap bar border BRC70 word (2 bytes)

for Word 95 and earlier
versions

sprmPBrcBar80 0x6629 change pap bar border BRC80 long (4 bytes)

for Word 97 and later
versions

sprmPBrcBetween 0xc652 change pap between BRC variable

border length

sprmPBrcBetween70 0x4428 change pap between BRC70 word (2 bytes)

border for Word 95 and
earlier versions

sprmPBrcBetween80 0x6428 change pap between BRC80 long (4 bytes)

border for Word 97 and
later versions

sprmPBrcBottom 0xc650 change pap bottom BRC variable

border length

sprmPBrcBottom70 0x4426 change pap bottom BRC70 word (2 bytes)

border for Word 95 and
earlier versions

sprmPBrcBottom80 0x6426 change pap bottom BRC80 long (4 bytes)

border for Word 97 and
later versions

sprmPBrcLeft 0xc64f change pap left border BRC variable

length

sprmPBrcLeft70 0x4425 change pap left border for BRC70 word (2 bytes)
Word 95 and earlier
versions

sprmPBrcLeft80 0x6425 change pap left border for BRC80 long (4 bytes)
Word 97 and later
versions
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Parameter
Name sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmPBrcRight 0xc651 change pap right border BRC80 variable

length

sprmPBrcRight70 0x4427 change pap right border BRC word (2 bytes)

for Word 95 or earlier
versions

sprmPBrcRight80 0x6427 change pap right border BRC70 long (4 bytes)

for Word 97 and later
versions

sprmPBrcTop 0xc64e change pap top border BRC80 variable

length

sprmPBrcTop70 0x4424 change pap top border for BRC70 word (2 bytes)
Word 95 or earlier
versions

sprmPBrcTop80 0x6424 change pap top border for BRC80 long (4 bytes)
Word 97 and later
versions

sprmPFNoAutoHyph 0x242A pap.fNoAutoHyph 0 or 1 byte

sprmPWHeightAbs 0x442B pap.wHeightAbs w word

sprmPDcs 0x442C pap.dcs DCS short

sprmPShd80 0x442D pap.shd for Word 97 and SHD word

later versions

sprmPShd 0xc64d change pap.shd SHD Variable

length

sprmPDyaFromText 0x842E pap.dyaFromText dya word

sprmPDxaFromText 0x842F pap.dxaFromText dxa word

sprmPFLocked 0x2430 pap.fLocked 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFWidowControl 0x2431 pap.fWidowControl 0 or 1 byte

sprmPRuler 0xC632 variable

length

sprmPFKinsoku 0x2433 pap.fKinsoku 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFWordWrap 0x2434 pap.fWordWrap 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFOverflowPunct 0x2435 pap.fOverflowPunct 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFTopLinePunct 0x2436 pap.fTopLinePunct 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFAutoSpaceDE 0x2437 pap.fAutoSpaceDE 0 or 1 byte

sprmPFAutoSpaceDN 0x2438 pap.fAutoSpaceDN 0 or 1 byte

sprmPWAlignFont 0x4439 pap.wAlignFont iFa (see description word

of PAP for definition)
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Parameter
Name sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmPFrameTextFlow 0x443A pap.fVertical complex (see word

pap.fBackward description of PAP for
pap.fRotateFont
definition)

sprmPISnapBaseLine 0x243B Obsolete; not applicable byte

in Word 97 and later
versions.

sprmPAnld80 0xC63E pap.anld (Word 97) ANLD80 variable

length

sprmPAnldCv 0x6654 change COLORREF long (4 bytes)

pap.anld.anlv.cv
sprmPAnld80
composed with
sprmPAnldCv yields
the ANLD

sprmPPropRMark 0xC63F pap.fPropRMark complex (see below) variable

length

sprmPOutLvl 0x2640 pap.lvl has no effect if byte

pap.istd is < 1 or is
>9

sprmPFBiDi 0x2441 Pap.fBiDi 1 or 0 byte

sprmPFNumRMIns 0x2443 pap.fNumRMIns 1 or 0 bit

sprmPNumRM 0xC645 pap.numrm NUMRM variable

length

sprmPHugePapx 0x6645 see below fc in the data stream long

to locate the huge
grpprl (see below)

sprmPFUsePgsuSettings 0x2447 pap.fUsePgsuSettings 1 or 0 byte

sprmPFAdjustRight 0x2448 pap.fAdjustRight 1 or 0 byte

sprmPDtap 0x664a Add the parameter to long (4 bytes)

pap.itap and change
pap.fInTableW97 (set it
to 0 if pap.itap is 0 and
to 1 otherwise).

sprmPFInnerTableCell 0x244b change 1 or 0 byte

Pap.fInnerTableCell

sprmPFInnerTtp 0x244c Word 97 compatibility 1 or 0 byte

indicates this end of
paragraph mark is really
an end of row marker for
a nested table.

sprmPFNoAllowOverlap 0x2462 change 1 or 0 byte

pap.fNoAllowOverlap
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Parameter
Name sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmPItap 0x6649 change pap.itap and long (4 bytes)

pap.fInTableW97 (set it
to 0 if pap.itap is 0 and
to 1 otherwise)

sprmPWall 0x2664 pap.fHasOldProps 0 or 1 byte

Used for paragraph
property revision
marking. The pap at the
time fHasOldProps is set
to 1, the is the old pap.

sprmPIpgp 0x6465 pap.ipgp (HTML div ID div id long

for this paragraph)

sprmPCnf 0xc666 pap.hplcnf (conditional cnfc (conditional variable

paragraph properties) format condition + length
grpprl of properties)

sprmPRsid 0x6467 Changes pap.rsid, a rsid long

random number
associated with
paragraph formatting
which improves the
accuracy of Word‘s
document merge feature.

sprmPIstdList 0x4468 pap.istdList (list style style word

for this paragraph)

sprmPIstdListPermute 0xc669 pap.istdList (list style see variable

permute; see sprmPIstdPermute length
sprmPIstdPermute for
permute definition)

sprmPDyaBeforeNotCp0 0xa46a pap.dyaBefore (sets twips uza

dyaBefore ONLY for
para‘s not at the
beginning of the
document)

sprmPTableProps 0x646b pap.tap (holds the FC (offset into data long

native 2002 table stream for
properties; backward properties)
compatible props are
stored after this FC value
(and thus parsed by
Word 2000)

sprmPTIstdInfo 0xc66c pap.tap.yfti YFTI variable

(information about the length
last table autofit
conditional results)
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Parameter
Name sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmPFContextualSpacing 0x246d pap.fContextualSpacin 0 or 1 byte

g (collapses space
between paragraphs of
the same style)

sprmPRpf 0x246e pap.rpf (revision pane RPF byte

flags)

sprmPPropRMark90 0xc66f Changes Same as variable

pap.fPropRMark, sprmPPropRMark. length
pap.ibstPropRMark,
pap.dttmPropRMark.

Word 2000 sometimes

crashes reading in
Word2002 paragraph
property revisions, so a
new sprmPPropRMark
was created for Word
2002 to use, and the old
one was renamed
sprmPPropRMark90 and
is no longer generated.

Character SPRMs
Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmCFRMarkDel 0x0800 chp.fRMarkDel 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFRMark 0x0801 chp.fRMark 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFFldVanish 0x0802 chp.fFldVanish 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFSdtVanish 0x2A90 chp.fSdtVanish. 1 or 0 bit

Applies to xchSdtBegin
(―<‖) and xchSdtEnd
(―>‖) characters to
signify that they are
―vanished‖ (hidden).

sprmCPicLocation 0x6A03 chp.fcPic (see below) variable length,

chp.fSpec length recorded
is always 4

sprmCIbstRMark 0x4804 chp.ibstRMark index into sttbRMark short

sprmCDttmRMark 0x6805 chp.dttmRMark DTTM long

sprmCFData 0x0806 chp.fData 1 or 0 bit

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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmCIdslRMark 0x4807 chp.idslRMReason an index to a table of short

strings defined in
Word 6.0 executables

sprmCChs 0xEA08 chp.fChsDiff (see below) 3 bytes

chp.chse
sprmCSymbol 0x6A09 chp.fSpec, (see below) variable length,
chp.xchSym, length recorded
chp.ftcSym
is always 4

sprmCFOle2 0x080A chp.fOle2 1 or 0 bit

sprmCIdCharType 0x480B obsolete; not applicable

in Word 97 and later
versions

sprmCHighlight 0x2A0C chp.fHighlight, ico (fHighlight is set byte

chp.icoHighlight to 1 if ico is not 0)

sprmCObjLocation 0x680E chp.fcObj in old FC long

documents

sprmCObjpLocation 0x680e change chp.fcObjp in FC long

Word 2000

sprmCFFtcAsciSymb 0x2A10

sprmCIstd 0x4A30 chp.istd istd, see style sheet short

definition

sprmCIstdPermute 0xCA31 chp.istd permutation vector variable length

(see below)

sprmCDefault 0x2A32 whole CHP none variable length

(see below)

sprmCPlain 0x2A33 whole CHP none 0

(see below)

sprmCKcd 0x2A34

sprmCFBold 0x0835 chp.fBold 0,1, 128, or 129 (see byte

below)

sprmCFItalic 0x0836 chp.fItalic 0,1, 128, or 129 (see byte

below)

sprmCFStrike 0x0837 chp.fStrike 0,1, 128, or 129 (see byte

below)

sprmCFOutline 0x0838 chp.fOutline 0,1, 128, or 129 (see byte

below)

sprmCFShadow 0x0839 chp.fShadow 0,1, 128, or 129 (see byte

below)

sprmCFSmallCaps 0x083A chp.fSmallCaps 0,1, 128, or 129 (see byte

below)
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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmCFCaps 0x083B chp.fCaps 0,1, 128, or 129 (see byte

below)

sprmCFVanish 0x083C chp.fVanish 0,1, 128, or 129 (see byte

below)

sprmCFtcDefault 0x4A3D ftc, only used word

internally, never
stored in file

sprmCKul 0x2A3E chp.kul kul byte

sprmCSizePos 0xEA3F chp.hps, (see below) 3 bytes

chp.hpsPos
sprmCDxaSpace 0x8840 chp.dxaSpace dxa word

sprmCLid 0x4A41 only used internally word

never stored

sprmCIco 0x2A42 chp.ico for Word 97 and ico byte

later versions

sprmCHps 0x4A43 chp.hps hps byte

sprmCHpsInc 0x2A44 chp.hps (see below) byte

sprmCHpsPos 0x4845 chp.hpsPos hps byte

sprmCHpsPosAdj 0x2A46 chp.hpsPos hps (see below) byte

sprmCMajority 0xCA47 chp.fBold, complex (see below) variable length,

chp.fItalic, length byte plus
chp.fSmallCaps,
size of following
chp.fVanish,
chp.fStrike, grpprl
chp.fCaps,
chp.rgftc,
chp.hps,
chp.hpsPos,
chp.kul,
chp.dxaSpace,
chp.ico,
chp.rglid
chp.fOutline
chp.fShadow
chp.ftc
chp.cv
sprmCIss 0x2A48 chp.iss iss byte

sprmCHpsNew50 0xCA49 chp.hps hps variable width,

length always
recorded as 2

sprmCHpsInc1 0xCA4A chp.hps complex (see below) variable width,

length always
recorded as 2

sprmCHpsKern 0x484B chp.hpsKern hps short

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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmCMajority50 0xCA4C chp.fBold, complex (see below) variable length

chp.fItalic,
chp.fSmallCaps,
chp.fVanish,
chp.fStrike,
chp.fCaps,
chp.ftc,
chp.hps,
chp.hpsPos,
chp.kul,
chp.dxaSpace,
chp.ico
sprmCHpsMul 0x4A4D chp.hps percentage to grow short
hps

sprmCHresi 0x484e change chp.hresi HRESI word (2 bytes)

(chp.hres,
chp.chHres)

sprmCRgFtc0 0x4A4F chp.rgftc[0] ftc for ASCII text (see short

below)

sprmCRgFtc1 0x4A50 chp.rgftc[1] ftc for East Asian text short

(see below)

sprmCRgFtc2 0x4A51 chp.rgftc[2] ftc for non-East Asian short

text (see below)

sprmCCharScale 0x4852 chp.pctCharWidth word (2 bytes)

sprmCFDStrike 0x2A53 chp.fDStrike byte

sprmCFImprint 0x0854 chp.fImprint 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFSpec 0x0855 chp.fSpec 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFObj 0x0856 chp.fObj 1 or 0 bit

sprmCPropRMark 0xCA57 chp.fPropRMark, Complex (see below) variable length

chp.ibstPropRMark, always
chp.dttmPropRMark recorded as 7
bytes
sprmCFEmboss 0x0858 chp.fEmboss 1 or 0 bit

sprmCSfxText 0x2859 chp.sfxtText text animation byte

sprmCFBiDi 0x085A Change chp.fBidi 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFDiacColor 0x085B 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFBoldBi 0x085C Change chp.fBoldBi 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFItalicBi 0x085D Change chp.fItalicBi 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFtcBi 0x4A5E Change chp.ftcBi ftc word

sprmCLidBi 0x485F Change chp.rglid[2] LID word

(chp.lidBi)

sprmCIcoBi 0x4A60 Change chp.IcoBi word

sprmCHpsBi 0x4A61 Change chp.HpsBi Font size word

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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmCDispFldRMark 0xCA62 chp.fDispFldRMark, Complex (see below) variable length

chp.ibstDispFldRMark always
, recorded as 39
chp.dttmDispFldRMark bytes
sprmCIbstRMarkDel 0x4863 chp.ibstRMarkDel index into sttbRMark short

sprmCDttmRMarkDel 0x6864 chp.dttmRMarkDel DTTM long

SprmCBrc80 0x6865 chp.brc for Word 97 BRC80 long

sprmCBrc 0xca72 change chp.brc BRC variable length

sprmCShd80 0x4866 chp.shd SHD80 short

sprmCShd 0xca71 change chp.shd SHD variable length

sprmCIdslRMarkDel 0x4867 chp.idslRMReasonDel an index to a table of short

strings defined in
Word 6.0 executables

sprmCFUsePgsuSettings 0x0868 chp.fUsePgsuSettings 1 or 0 bit

sprmCCpg 0x486B word

sprmCRgLid0_80 0x486D chp.rglid[0] for Word LID word

97

sprmCRgLid0 0x4873 change chp.rglid[0] LID word

sprmCRgLid1_80 0x486E chp.rglid[1] for Word LID word

97

sprmCRgLid1 0x4874 change chp.rglid[1] LID word

sprmCIdctHint 0x286F chp.idctHint IDCT: (see below) byte

sprmCCv 0x6870 change chp.cv COLORREF long (4 bytes)

sprmCCvPermute 0xca7c permute colors complex (see below) variable length

sprmCCvUl 0x6877 change chp.cvUl COLORREF long (4 bytes)

sprmCFBoldPresent 0x287d change 1 or 0 byte

chp.fBoldPresent

sprmCFELayout 0xca78 East Asian Warichu, complex variable length

Tatenakayoko and
Kumimoji

sprmCFItalicPresent 0x287e change 1 or 0 byte

chp.fItalicPresent

sprmCFitText 0xca76 change chp.dxaFitText complex variable length

& chp.lFitTextID

sprmCFLangApplied 0x2a7a change 1 or 0 byte

chp.fLangApplied
(Abandoned)

sprmCFNoProof 0x875 change chp.fNoProof 1 or 0 bit

sprmCFWebHidden 0x811 change chp.fWebHidden 1 or 0 bit

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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmCHsp 0x6a12 change chp.fcPic and complex long (4 bytes)

set fSpec

sprmCLbcCRJ 0x2879 change chp.lbrCRJ unsigned char byte

sprmCNewIbstRM 0xca13 change chp.ibstRMark IBST variable length

if original is not a
threading author

sprmCTransNoProof0 0x287f change REMOVE? spraByte

chp.bTransNoProof0

sprmCTransNoProof1 0x2880 change REMOVE? spraByte

chp.bTransNoProof1

sprmCFRMMove 0x2814 Not used Not used byte

sprmCRsidProp 0x6815 Changes chp.rsidProp, rsid long

a random number
associated with
character formatting
which improves the
accuracy of Word‘s
document merge
feature.

sprmCRsidText 0x6816 Changes chp.rsidText, rsid long

a random number
associated with the
insertion of text which
improves the accuracy of
Word‘s document
merging.

sprmCRsidRMDel 0x6817 Changes rsid long

chp.rsidRMDel, a
random number
associated with the
tracked deletion of text
which improves the
accuracy of Word‘s
document merging.

sprmCFSpecVanish 0x0818 chp.fSpecVanish 0 or 1 bit

sprmCFComplexScripts 0x0882 chp.fComplexScripts 1 or 0 bit

sprmCWall 0x2a83 chp.fHasOldProps 0 or 1 byte

Used for character
property revision
marking. The chp at the
time fHasOldProps is
set to 1, is the old chp.

sprmCPbi 0xca84 chp.pbi (picture bullet variable length

information)
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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmCCnf 0xca85 chp.hplcnf (conditional variable length

character formatting for
table styles. No language
properties are stored
here)

sprmCNeedFontFixup 0x2a86 chp.ffm For internal use only, byte

should never be seen
in binary document

sprmCPbiIBullet 0x6887 chp.pbi (picture bullet long

information)

sprmCPbiGrf 0x4888 chp.pbi (picture bullet word

information)

sprmCPropRMark 0xca89 chp.fPropRMark, Same as variable length

chp.ibstPropRMark, sprmPPropRMark
chp.dttmPropRMark

Picture SPRMs
Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmPicBrcl 0x2E00 pic.brcl brcl (see PIC Byte

structure definition)

sprmPicScale 0xCE01 pic.mx, complex (see below) length byte plus

pic.my, 12 bytes
pic.dxaCropleft,
pic.dyaCropTop,
pic.dxaCropRight,
pic.dyaCropBottom
sprmPicBrcTop80 0x6C02 pic.brcTop for Word 97 BRC80 long (4 bytes)

sprmPicBrcBottom 0xce0a change pic bottom BRC variable length

border

sprmPicBrcBottom70 0x4c04 change pic bottom BRC70 word (2 bytes)

border for Word 95 and
earlier versions

sprmPicBrcLeft80 0x6C03 pic.brcLeft for Word BRC80 long (4 bytes)

97

sprmPicBrcLeft 0xce09 change pic left border BRC variable length

sprmPicBrcLeft70 0x4c03 change pic left border BRC70 word (2 bytes)

for Word 95 and earlier
versions

sprmPicBrcBottom80 0x6C04 pic.brcBottom for Word BRC80 long (4 bytes)

sprmPicBrcRight 0xce0b change pic right border BRC variable length

sprmPicBrcRight70 0x4c05 change pic right border BRC70 word (2 bytes)

for Word 95 and earlier
versions
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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmPicBrcRight80 0x6C05 pic.brcRight for Word BRC80 long (4 bytes)

97

sprmPicBrcTop 0xce08 change pic top border BRC variable length

sprmPicBrcTop70 0x4c02 change pic top border BRC70 word (2 bytes)

for Word 95 and earlier
versions

sprmPicSpare4 0xce06

sprmCFOle2WasHere 0xce07

Section SPRMs
Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmScnsPgn 0x3000 sep.cnsPgn cns Byte

sprmSiHeadingPgn 0x3001 sep.iHeadingPgn heading number Byte

level

sprmSOlstAnm 0xD202 sep.olstAnm OLST variable length

sprmSOlstAnm80 0xd202 sep.olstAnm for Word 97 OLST variable length

sprmSOlstCv 0xd238 change COLORREF[9], one variable length

Sep.olst.rganlv[9].cv for each ANLV in the
OLST

sprmSDxaColWidth 0xF203 sep.rgdxaColWidthSpacin complex 3 bytes

g (see below)

sprmSDxaColSpacing 0xF204 sep.rgdxaColWidthSpacin complex 3 bytes

g (see below)

sprmSFEvenlySpaced 0x3005 sep.fEvenlySpaced 1 or 0 byte

sprmSFProtected 0x3006 sep.fUnlocked 1 or 0 byte

sprmSDmBinFirst 0x5007 sep.dmBinFirst word

sprmSDmBinOther 0x5008 sep.dmBinOther word

sprmSBkc 0x3009 sep.bkc bkc byte

sprmSFTitlePage 0x300A sep.fTitlePage 0 or 1 byte

sprmSCcolumns 0x500B sep.ccolM1 # of cols - 1 word

sprmSDxaColumns 0x900C sep.dxaColumns dxa word

sprmSFAutoPgn 0x300D sep.fAutoPgn obsolete byte

sprmSNfcPgn 0x300E sep.nfcPgn nfc byte

sprmSDyaPgn 0xB00F sep.dyaPgn dya short

sprmSDxaPgn 0xB010 sep.dxaPgn dya short

sprmSFPgnRestart 0x3011 sep.fPgnRestart 0 or 1 byte

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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmSFEndnote 0x3012 sep.fEndnote 0 or 1 byte

sprmSLnc 0x3013 sep.lnc lnc byte

sprmSGprfIhdt 0x3014 sep.grpfIhdt grpfihdt (see byte

Headers and Footers
topic)

sprmSNLnnMod 0x5015 sep.nLnnMod non-neg int. word

sprmSDxaLnn 0x9016 sep.dxaLnn dxa word

sprmSDyaHdrTop 0xB017 sep.dyaHdrTop dya word

sprmSDyaHdrBottom 0xB018 sep.dyaHdrBottom dya word

sprmSLBetween 0x3019 sep.fLBetween 0 or 1 byte

sprmSVjc 0x301A sep.vjc vjc byte

sprmSLnnMin 0x501B sep.lnnMin lnn word

sprmSPgnStart 0x501C sep.pgnStart pgn word

sprmSBOrientation 0x301D sep.dmOrientPage dm byte

sprmSXaPage 0xB01F sep.xaPage xa word

sprmSYaPage 0xB020 sep.yaPage ya word

sprmSDxaLeft 0xB021 sep.dxaLeft dxa word

sprmSDxaRight 0xB022 sep.dxaRight dxa word

sprmSDyaTop 0x9023 sep.dyaTop dya word

sprmSDyaBottom 0x9024 sep.dyaBottom dya word

sprmSDzaGutter 0xB025 sep.dzaGutter dza word

sprmSDmPaperReq 0x5026 sep.dmPaperReq dm word

sprmSPropRMark 0xD227 sep.fPropRMark, complex (see below) variable length

sep.ibstPropRMark, always
sep.dttmPropRMark
recorded as 7
bytes

sprmSFBiDi 0x3228 Change sep.fbidi 0 or 1 byte

sprmSFFacingCol 0x3229 Change sep.ffacingcol 0 or 1 byte

sprmSFRTLGutter 0x322A Change sep.fRTLgutter 0 or 1 byte

sprmSBrcTop80 0x702B sep.brcTop for Word 97 BRC long (4 bytes)

sprmSBrcTop 0xd234 change sep.brcTop BRC variable length

sprmSBrcLeft80 0x702C sep.brcLeft for Word 97 BRC long (4 bytes)

sprmSBrcLeft 0xd235 change sep.brcLeft BRC variable length

sprmSBrcBottom80 0x702d change sep.brcBottom for BRC80 long (4 bytes)

Word 97

sprmSBrcBottom 0xd236 change sep.brcBottom BRC variable length

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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmSBrcRight80 0x702e change sep.brcRight for BRC80 long (4 bytes)

Word 97

sprmSBrcRight 0xd237 change sep.brcRight BRC long (4 bytes)

sprmSPgbProp 0x522F sep.pgbProp word

sprmSDxtCharSpace 0x7030 sep.dxtCharSpace dxt long

sprmSDyaLinePitch 0x9031 sep.dyaLinePitch dya long

sprmSClm 0x5032 sep.clm word (2 bytes)

sprmSTextFlow 0x5033 sep.wTextFlow complex (see below) Short

sprmSWall 0x3239 sep.fHasOldProps 0 or 1 byte

Used for section property
revision marking. The sep at
the time fHasOldProps is
set to 1, the is the old sep.

sprmSRsid 0x703a Change sep.rsid, a random rsid long

number associated with
section formatting which
improves the accuracy of
Word‘s document merging.

sprmSFpc 0x303b sep.fpc (footnote position fpc byte

code)

sprmSRncFtn 0x303c sep.fncFtn (restart rnc byte

numbering code for
footnotes)

sprmSEpc 0x303d sep.epc (endnode epc byte

positioning code)

sprmSRncEdn 0x303e sep.rncEdn (restart rnc byte

numbering code for
endnotes)

sprmSNFtn 0x503f sep.nFtn (starting footnote number word

number)

sprmSNfcFtnRef 0x5040 sep.nfcFtnRef (number nfc word

format for footnote
references)

sprmSNEdn 0x5041 sep.nEdn (starting endnote number word

number)

sprmSNfcEdnRef 0x5042 sep.nfcEdnRef (number nfc word

format for endnote
references)

sprmSPropRMark 0xd243 sep.fPropRMark, Same as variable length

sep.ibstPropRMark, sprmPPropRMark
sep.dttmPropRMark
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Table sprms
Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmTDefTable 0xD608 tap.rgtc for Word 97 complex (see below)

sprmTDefTable10 0xD606 tap.rgdxaCenter, complex (see below) variable length

tap.rgtc
sprmTDefTableShd 0xD609 change tap.rgshd for 97 complex (see below)

sprmTDefTableShd 0xd612 change tap.rgtc[].shd complex (see below) variable length

cols 0 - 21

sprmTDefTableShd2nd 0xd616 change tap.rgtc[].shd complex (see below) variable length

cols 22 - 43

sprmTDefTableShd3rd 0xd60c change tap.rgtc[].shd complex (see below) variable length

cols 44 - 63

sprmTDelete 0x5622 tap.rgdxaCenter, complex (see below) Word

tap.rgtc
sprmTDiagLine 0xd630 set BRC values for diagonal complex (see below) variable length
line in table cell (East Asian)

sprmTDiagLine80 0xd62a set BRC80 values for complex (see below) variable length
diagonal line in table cell
(East Asian)

sprmTDxaCol 0x7623 tap.rgdxaCenter complex (see below) 4 bytes

sprmTDxaGapHalf 0x9602 tap.dxaGapHalf, dxa word

tap.rgdxaCenter
(see below)

sprmTDxaLeft 0x9601 tap.rgdxaCenter dxa word

(see below)

sprmTDyaRowHeight 0x9407 tap.dyaRowHeight dya word

sprmTFBiDi80 0x560b Tap.fBidi 0 or 1 word (2 bytes)

sprmTFCantSplit 0x3403 tap.fCantSplit 1 or 0 byte

sprmTHTMLProps 0x740C

sprmTInsert 0x7621 tap.rgdxaCenter, complex (see below) 4 bytes

tap.rgtc
sprmTJc 0x5400 tap.jc jc word (low
order byte is
significant)

sprmTMerge 0x5624 tap.fFirstMerged, complex (see below) word

tap.fMerged
sprmTSetBrc80 0xD620 tap.rgtc[].rgbrc for Word complex (see below) 5 bytes
97

sprmTSetBrc10 0xD626 tap.rgtc[].rgbrc complex (see below) 5 bytes

sprmTSetBrc 0xd62f tap.rgtc[].rgbrc complex (see below) variable length

sprmTSetShd80 0x7627 tap.rgshd for Word 97 complex (see below) 4 bytes

sprmTSetShdOdd80 0x7628 tap.rgshd for Word 97 complex (see below) 4 bytes

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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmTSetShd 0xd62d change tap.rgtc[].shd complex (see below) variable length

sprmTSetShdOdd 0xd62e change tap.rgtc[].shd complex (see below) variable length

sprmTSetShdTable 0xd660 change tap.shdTable SHD variable length

sprmTSplit 0x5625 tap.fFirstMerged, complex (see below) word

tap.fMerged
sprmTTableBorders 0xd613 change tap.rgbrcTable BRC[6] (see below) variable length

sprmTTableBorders80 0xd605 change tap.rgbrcTable for BRC80[6] (see variable length

Word 97 below)

sprmTTableHeader 0x3404 tap.fTableHeader 1 or 0 byte

sprmTTextFlow 0x7629 tap.rgtc[].fVertical 0 or 1 word

tap.rgtc[].fBackward 0 or 1
tap.rgtc[].fRotateFont 0 or 1
sprmTTlp 0x740A tap.tlp TLP 4 bytes

sprmTVertAlign 0xD62C tap.rgtc[].vertAlign complex (see below) variable length

always
recorded as 3
byte

sprmTVertMerge 0xD62B tap.rgtc[].vertMerge complex (see below) variable length

always
recorded as 2
bytes

sprmTFCellNoWrap 0xd639 change tc.fNoWrap 1 or 0 variable length

sprmTFitText 0xf636 change FitText setting in 1 or 0 3 bytes

TCs

sprmTFKeepFollow 0x3619 change tap.fKeepFollow 1 or 0 byte

sprmTFNeverBeenAutofi 0x3663 change 1 or 0 byte

t tap.fNeverBeenAutofit

sprmTFNoAllowOverlap 0x3465 change 1 or 0 byte

tap.fNoAllowOverlap

sprmTPc 0x360d change positioning code complex (see below) byte

sprmTBrcBottomCv 0xd61c set complex (see below) variable length

tap.rgtc[].rgbrc[ibrcBo
ttom].cv for cols 0 - 63

sprmTBrcLeftCv 0xd61b set complex (see below) variable length

tap.rgtc[].rgbrc[ibrcLe
ft].cv for cols 0 - 63

sprmTBrcRightCv 0xd61d set complex (see below) variable length

tap.rgtc[].rgbrc[ibrcRi
ght].cv for cols 0 - 63

sprmTBrcTopCv 0xd61a tap.rgtc[].set complex (see below) variable length

rgbrc[ibrcTop].cv for cols
0 - 63
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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmTCellBrcType 0xd662 change complex (see below) variable length

tap.rgtc[].brcLeft.brcT
ype,
tap.rgtc[].brcBottom.br
cType,
tap.rgtc[].brcRight.brc
Type,
tap.rgtc[].brcTop.brcTy
pe

sprmTCellPadding 0xd632 change complex (see below) variable length

tc.mpibrcwCellSpacing
and
tc.mpibrcftsCellSpacing

sprmTCellPaddingDefaul 0xd634 change complex (see below) variable length

t tap.mpibrcwCellSpacingD
efault and
tap.mpibrcftsCellSpacin
gDefault

sprmTCellPaddingOuter 0xd638 change complex (see below) variable length

tap.mpibrcwCellSpacingO
uter and
tap.mpibrcftsCellSpacin
gOuter

sprmTCellSpacing 0xd631 change complex (see below) variable length

tc.mpibrcwCellSpacing
and
tc.mpibrcftsCellSpacing

sprmTCellSpacingDefault 0xd633 change complex (see below) variable length

tap.mpibrcwCellSpacingD
efault and
tap.mpibrcftsCellSpacin
gDefault

sprmTCellSpacingOuter 0xd637 change complex (see below) variable length

tap.mpibrcwCellSpacingO
uter and
tap.mpibrcftsCellSpacin
gOuter

sprmTCellWidth 0xd635 change width tc.wWidth complex (see below) variable length
and tc.ftsWidth

sprmTDxaAbs 0x940e change tap.dxaAbs dxa word (2 bytes)

sprmTDxaFromText 0x9410 change tap.dxaFromText dxa word (2 bytes)

sprmTDxaFromTextRight 0x941e change dxa word (2 bytes)

tap.dxaFromTextRight

sprmTDyaAbs 0x940f change tap.dyaAbs dxa word (2 bytes)

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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmTDyaFromText 0x9411 change tap.dxaFromText dya word (2 bytes)

sprmTDyaFromTextBotto 0x941f change dya word (2 bytes)

m tap.dxaFromTextBottom

sprmTFAutofit 0x3615 change fAutofit in TAP 1 or 0 byte

sprmTTableWidth 0xf614 change tap.ftsWidth and complex (see below) 3 bytes

tap.wWidth

sprmTWidthAfter 0xf618 change tap.ftsWidthAfter complex (see below) 3 bytes

and tap.wWidthAfter

sprmTWidthBefore 0xf617 change complex (see below) 3 bytes

tap.ftsWidthBefore and
tap.wWidthBefore

sprmTWidthIndent 0xf661 change complex (see below) 3 bytes

tap.ftsWidthIndent and
tap.wWidthIndent in TAP

sprmTIstd 0x563a tap.istd (table style; no long word

language props here)

sprmTSetShdRaw 0xd63b tap.rgtc[].shd (user [itcFirst[1], variable length

applied cell shading) itcLim[1],
brck[1], SHD]
sprmTSetShdOddRaw 0xd63c tap.rgtc[].shd (user see above variable length
applied odd cell shading)

sprmTIstdPermute 0xd63d tap.istd (table style style ID variable length

permute, see
sprmPIstdPermute for info
on permutes)

sprmTCellPaddingStyle 0xd63e tap.tcDefault.mpibrcwCe see sprmTCellPading variable length

llPadding/mpibrcftsCell
Padding (cell padding for
table style definitions)

sprmTFCantSplit90 0x3466 tap.fCantSplit90 0 or 1 byte

Word 2002 allows a table
row with vert merge cells to
be broken across pages.
That would sometimes
cause Word 97 to crash, so a
new sprmTFCantSplit was
created and the old one
renamed
sprmTFCantSplit90 is used
to tell Word 97 and Word
2000 not to break such a
table row.

sprmTPropRMark 0xd667 tap.fPropRMark, Same as variable length

tap.ibstPropRMark, sprmPPropRMark
tap.dttmPropRMark.
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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmTWall 0x3668 tap.fHasOldProps 0 or 1 byte

Used for table property
revision marking. The tap at
the time fHasOldProps is
set to 1, the is the old tap.

sprmTIpgp 0x7469 tap.ipgp (DIV ID for HTML div ID long

Div Borders & Margins)

sprmTCnf 0xd66a tap.hplcnf (conditional see sprmPCnf variable length

table formatting)

sprmTSetShdTableDef 0xd66b tap.shdTableDef SHD variable length

(calculated default row
shading)

sprmTDiagLine2nd 0xd66c tap.rgtc[14..29].tcd [BRC, BRC] * count of variable length

(diagonal table borders) cells

sprmTDiagLine3rd 0xd66d tap.rgtc[30..45].tcd [BRC, BRC] * count of variable length

(diagonal table borders) cells

sprmTDiagLine4th 0xd66e tap.rgtc[46..60].tcd [BRC, BRC] * count of variable length

(diagonal table borders) cells

sprmTDiagLine5th 0xd66f tap.rgtc[60..63].tcd [BRC, BRC] * count of variable length

(diagonal table borders) cells

sprmTDefTableShdRaw 0xd670 tap.rgtc[0..21].shdRaw array of SHD variable length

(user defined default row
shading)

sprmTDefTableShdRaw2 0xd671 tap.rgtc[22..43].shdRaw array of SHD variable length

nd (user defined default row
shading)

sprmTDefTableShdRaw3 0xd672 tap.rgtc[44..63].shdRaw array of SHD variable length

rd (user defined default row
shading)

sprmTSetShdRowFirst 0xd673 deprecated; not used variable length

sprmTSetShdRowLast 0xd674 deprecated; not used variable length

sprmTSetShdColFirst 0xd675 deprecated; not used variable length

sprmTSetShdColLast 0xd676 deprecated; not used variable length

sprmTSetShdBand1 0xd677 deprecated; not used variable length

sprmTSetShdBand2 0xd678 deprecated; not used variable length

sprmTRsid 0x7479 Change tap.rsid, a random rsid long

number associated with
table formatting which
improves the accuracy of
Word‘s document merging.

sprmTCellWidthStyle 0xf47a deprecated; not used tribyte

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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmTCellPaddingStyleB 0xd67b deprecated; not used variable length

ad

sprmTCellVertAlignStyle 0x347c tap.tcDefault.vertAlign (0,1,2,3) => (vaTop, byte

vaCenter, vaBottom,
vaJustify)

sprmTCellNoWrapStyle 0x347d tap.tcDefault.fNoWrap 0 or 1 byte

(don‘t wrap words in this
cell)

sprmTCellFitTextStyle 0x347e deprecated; not used byte

sprmTCellBrcTopStyle 0xd47f tap.tcDefault.brcTop BRC variable length

(border definition)

sprmTCellBrcBottomStyl 0xd680 tap.tcDefault.brcBottom BRC variable length

e (border definition)

sprmTCellBrcLeftStyle 0xd681 tap.tcDefault.brcLeft BRC variable length

(border definition)

sprmTCellBrcRightStyle 0xd682 tap.tcDefault.brcRight BRC variable length

(border definition)

sprmTCellBrcInsideHStyl 0xd683 tap.rgbrcInsideDefault[ BRC variable length

e 0] (border definition for
inside horizontal borders)

sprmTCellBrcInsideVStyl 0xd684 tap.rgbrcInsideDefault[ BRC variable length

e 1] (border definition for
inside vertical borders)

sprmTCellBrcTL2BRStyle 0xd685 tap.tcDefault.tcd.brcTL BRC variable length

2BR (border definition for
diagonal border)

sprmTCellBrcTR2BLStyle 0xd686 tap.tcDefault.tcd.brcTR BRC variable length

2BL (border definition)

sprmTCellShdStyle 0xd687 tap.tcDefault.shd SHD variable length

(shading definition for table
style)

sprmTCHorzBands 0x3488 tap.cHorzBands (size of a count of rows byte

horizontal style band)

sprmTCVertBands 0x3489 tap.cVertBands (size of a count of columns byte

vertical style band)

sprmTJc 0x548a Changes tap.jc, the row alignment word

justification code for the
table.

sprmTTableBrcTop 0xd68b tap.rgbrcTable[ibrcTop] BRC variable length

(default border for all cells in
this row)
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Parameter
Name Sprm Property modified Parameter size

sprmTTableBrcLeft 0xd68c tap.rgbrcTable[ibrcLeft BRC variable length

] (default border for all cells
in this row)

sprmTTableBrcBottom 0xd68d tap.rgbrcTable[ibrcBott BRC variable length

om] (default border for all
cells in this row)

sprmTTableBrcRight 0xd68e tap.rgbrcTable[ibrcRigh BRC variable length

t] (default border for all
cells in this row)

sprmTTableBrcInsideH 0xd68f tap.rgbrcTable[ibrcInsi BRC variable length

deH] (default border for all
cells in this row)

sprmTTableBrcInsideV 0xd690 tap.rgbrcTable[ibrcInsi BRC variable length

deV] (default border for all
cells in this row)

sprmTFBiDi 0x560b tap.fBiDi 0 or 1 word (2 bytes)

sprmTFBiDi90 0x5664 tap.fRTL 0 or 1 word (2 bytes)

Complex SPRMs
Complex Paragraph SPRMs
sprmPIstdPermute (opcode 0xC601) is a complex sprm which is applied to a piece when the
style codes of paragraphs within a piece must be mapped to other style codes. It has the
following format:
Field Size Comment

sprm short opcode( ==0xC601)

cch byte Count of bytes (not including sprm and cch)

fLongg byte Always 0

fSpare byte Always 0

istdFirst unsigned short Index of first style in range to which permutation stored in rgistd applies

istdLast unsigned short Index of last style in range to which permutation stored in rgistd applies

rgistd[] unsigned short Array of istd entries that records the mapping of istds for text copied from a
source document to istds that exist in the destination document after the text
was pasted

To interpret sprmPIstdPermute, first check if pap.istd is greater than the istdFirst

recorded in the sprm and less than or equal to the istdLast recorded in the sprm. If it is not,
the sprm has no effect. If it is, pap.istd is set to rgistd[pap.istd-istdFirst].
sprmPIstdPermute is only stored in grpprls linked to a piece table. It should never be
recorded in a PAPX.
sprmPIncLvl (opcode 0x2602) is applied to pieces in the piece table that contain paragraphs
with style codes (istds) >= 1 and <= 9. These style codes identify heading levels in a Word
outline structure. The sprm causes a set of paragraphs to be changed to a new heading level.
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The sprm is three bytes long and consists of the sprm code and a one byte two‘s complement
value.
If pap.stc is < 1 or > 9, sprmPIncLvl has no effect. Otherwise, if the value stored in the
byte has its highest order bit off, the value is a positive difference which should be added to
pap.istd and pap.lvl and then pap.stc should be set to min(pap.istd, 9). If the byte
value has its highest order bit on, the value is a negative difference which should be sign
extended to a word and then subtracted from pap.istd and pap.lvl. Then pap.stc should
be set to max(1, pap.istd). sprmPIncLvl is only stored in grpprls linked to a piece table.
sprmPIlfo (opcode 0x460B) sets the pap.ilfo. Its argument, an ilfo, is an index into the
document‘s hpllfo, which contains the list data for that paragraph, describing the
appearance of the automatic number at the beginning of the paragraph. A value of zero means
the paragraph is not numbered, and a value of 2047 indicates the paragraph came from a
pre-Word 97 file so the formatting information is still stored in the pap.anld and the
paragraph should be converted to Word 97 format.
sprmPIlvl (opcode (0x260A) sets the pap.ilvl. It takes an index (0 through 8) to indicate
which level of a multilevel list this paragraph belongs to. For simple (one-level lists) or
unnumbered paragraphs, this value should always be zero.
sprmPAnld80 (opcode 0xC63E) is currently only used for compatibility with pre-Word 97
docs. It sets the pap.anld, which before Word 97 described the automatic number at the
beginning of any numbered paragraph. It is used only long enough to put the data into the
document‘s list table (rglst) and set the pap.ilfo to point to the proper entry in the list
table. The pap.anld is only relevant if pap.ilfo==2047 (see sprmPIlfo above).
The sprmPChgTabsPapx (opcode 0xC60D) is a complex sprm that describes changes in tab
settings from the underlying style. It is only stored as part of PAPXs stored in FKPs and in the
STSH. It has the following format:
Field Size Comment

sprm short opcode

cch byte Count of bytes (not including sprm and cch)

itbdDelMax byte Number of tabs to delete

rgdxaDel int[itbdDelMax] Array of tab positions for which tabs should be deleted

itbdAddMax byte Number of tabs to add

rgdxaAdd int[itbdAddMax] Array of tab positions for which tabs should be added

rgtbdAdd byte[itbdAddMax] Array of tab descriptors corresponding to rgdxaAdd

When sprmPChgTabsPapx is interpreted, the rgdxaDel of the sprm is applied first to the
pap that is being transformed. This is done by deleting from the pap the rgdxaTab entry and
rgtbd entry of any tab whose rgdxaTab value is equal to one of the rgdxaDel values in the
sprm. It is guaranteed that the entries in pap.rgdxaTab and the sprm‘s rgdxaDel and
rgdxaAdd are recorded in ascending dxa order. Then the rgdxaAdd and rgtbdAdd entries
are merged into the pap‘s rgdxaTab and rgtbd arrays so the resulting pap rgdxaTab is
sorted in ascending order with no duplicates.
sprmPNest80 (opcode 0x4610) causes its operand, a two-byte dxa value to be added to
pap.dxaLeft for Word 97. If the result of the addition is less than 0, 0 is stored into
pap.dxaLeft. It is used to shift the left indent of a paragraph to the right or left. sprmPNest
is only stored in grpprls linked to a piece table.
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sprmPNest (opcode 0x465f) is the Word 2000 version. The difference is the dxaLeft in Word
2000 is logical (it is left indent for Left-to-right text but right indent for Right-to-left text).
sprmPDyaLine (opcode 0x6412) moves a 4 byte LSPD structure into pap.lspd. Two short
fields are stored in this data structure. The first short in the structure is named lspd.dyaLine
and the second is named lspd.fMultLinespace. When lspd.fMultLinespace is 0, the
magnitude of lspd.dyaLine specifies the amount of space provided for lines in the
paragraph in twips. When lspd.dyaLine is positive, Word ensures that AT LEAST the
magnitude of lspd.dyaLine is reserved on the page for each line displayed in the paragraph.
If the height of a line becomes greater than lspd.dyaLine, the size calculated for that line is
reserved on the page. When lspd.dyaLine is negative, Word ensures that EXACTLY the
magnitude of lspd.dyaLine (-lspd.dyaLine) is reserved on the page for each line
displayed in the paragraph. When lspd.fMultLinespace is 1, Word reserves for each line
the (maximal height of the line*lspd.dyaLine)/240.
The sprmPChgTabs (opcode 0xC615) is a complex sprm which describes changes to tab
settings for any paragraph within a piece. It is only stored as part of a grpprl linked to a piece
table. It has the following format:
Field Size Comment

sprm short Opcode

cch byte Count of bytes (not including sprm and cch)

itbdDelMax byte Number of tabs to delete

rgdxaDel int[itbdDelMax] Array of tab positions for which tabs should be deleted

rgdxaClose int[itbdDelMax] Array of tolerances corresponding to rgdxaDel where each tolerance

defines an interval around a corresponding rgdxaDel entry within
which all tabs should be removed

itbdAddMax byte Number of tabs to add

rgdxaAdd int[itbdAddMax] Array of tab positions for which tabs should be added

rgtbdAdd byte[itbdAddMax] Array of tab descriptors corresponding to rgdxaAdd

itbdDelMax and itbdAddMax are defined to be equal to 50. This means that the largest
possible instance of sprmPChgTabs is 354. When the length of the sprm is >= 255, the cch
field will be set equal to 255. When cch==255, the actual length of the sprm can be calculated
as follows: length=2+itbdDelMax*4+itbdAddMax*3.
When sprmPChgTabs is interpreted, the rgdxaDel of the sprm is applied first to the pap that
is being transformed. This is done by deleting from the pap the rgdxaTab entry and rgtbd
entry of any tab whose rgdxaTab value is within the interval
[rgdxaDel[i]-rgdxaClose[i], rgdxaDel[i]+rgdxaClose[i]]. It is guaranteed that
the entries in pap.rgdxaTab and the sprm‘s rgdxaDel and rgdxaAdd are recorded in
ascending dxa order. Then the rgdxaAdd and rgtbdAdd entries are merged into the pap‘s
rgdxaTab and rgtbd arrays so the resulting pap rgdxaTab is sorted in ascending order with
no duplicates.
sprmPPc (opcode 0x261B) is a complex sprm 3 bytes long which describes changes in the
pap.pcHorz and pap.pcVert. It is able to change both fields‘ contents in parallel. It has the
following format:
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 sprm short Opcode

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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

2 2 short :4 F0 Reserved

pcVert short :2 0C If pcVert==3, pap.pcVert should not be changed.

Otherwise, contains new value of pap.pcVert.

pcHorz short :2 03 If pcHorz==3, pap.pcHorz should not be changed.

Otherwise, contains new value of pap.pcHorz.

sprmPPc is interpreted by moving pcVert to pap.pcVert if pcVert!=3 and by moving

pcHorz to pap.pcHorz if pcHorz!=3. sprmPPc is stored in PAPX FKPs and also in grpprls
linked to piece table entries.
sprmPPropRMark (opcode 0xC63F) is interpreted by moving the first parameter byte to
pap.fPropRMark, the next two bytes to pap.ibstPropRMark, and the remaining four bytes
to pap.dttmPropRMark.
sprmPHugePapx is stored in PAPX FKPs in place of the grpprl of a PAPX which would
otherwise be too big to fit in an FKP (as of this writing, 488 bytes is the size of the largest PAPX
which can fit in an FKP). The parameter fc gives the location of the grpprl in the data
stream. The first word at that fc counts the number of bytes in the grpprl (not including the
byte count itself). A sprmPHugePapx should therefore only be found in a PAPX FKP and should
be the only sprm in that PAPX‘s grpprl.
Complex Character SPRMs
sprmCPicLocation (opcode 0x6A03) is used ONLY IN CHPX FKPs. This sprm moves the
4-byte operand of the sprm into the chp.fcPic field. It simultaneously sets chp.fSpec to 1.
This sprm is also used when the chp.lTagObj field that is unioned with chp.fcPic is to be
set for OLE objects.
sprmCChs (opcode 0xEA08) is used to record a character set id for text that was pasted into
the Word document that used a character set different than Word‘s default character set.
When chp.fChsDiff==0, the character set used for a run of text is the default character set
for the version of Word that last saved the document. When chp.fChsDiff==1, chp.chse
specifies the character set used for this run of text. This sprm‘s operand is 3 bytes. When this
sprm is interpreted, the first byte of the operand is moved to chp.fChsDiff and the
remaining word is moved to chp.chse.
sprmCSymbol (opcode 0x6A09) is used to specify the font and the character used within that
font to display a symbol character in Word. This sprm‘s operand is 4 bytes. The first 2 bytes
hold the font code; the last 2 bytes hold a character specifier. When this sprm is interpreted,
the font code is moved to chp.ftcSym and the character specifier is moved to chp.xchSym
and chp.fSpec is set to 1.
sprmCIstdPermute (opcode 0xCA31) (which has the same format as sprmPIstdPermute
(opcode 0xC601)) is a complex sprm which is applied to a piece when the style codes for
character styles tagging character runs within a piece must be mapped to other style codes.
This is the same format as sprmPIstdPermute (opcode 0xC601). It has the following format:
Field Size Comment

sprm short opcode( ==0xCA31)

cch byte Count of bytes (not including sprm and cch)

fLongg byte Always 0

fSpare byte Always 0

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Field Size Comment

istdFirst unsigned short Index of first style in range to which permutation stored in rgistd applies

istdLast unsigned short Index of last style in range to which permutation stored in rgistd applies

rgistd[] unsigned short Array of istd entries that records the mapping of istds for text copied from a
source document to istds that exist in the destination document after the text
was pasted

To interpret sprmCIstdPermute, first check if chp.istd is greater than the istdFirst

recorded in the sprm and less than or equal to the istdLast recorded in the sprm. If it is not,
the sprm has no effect. If it is, chp.istd is set to rgstd[chp.istd - istdFirst] and any
chpx stored in that rgstd entry is applied to the chp. sprmCIstdPermute is only stored in
grpprls linked to a piece table. It should never be recorded in a CHPX.
Note: it is possible an istd may be recorded in the rgistd that refers to a paragraph style.
This has no harmful consequences since the istd for a paragraph style should never be
recorded in chp.istd.
sprmCDefault (opcode 0x2A32) clears the fBold, fItalic, fOutline, fStrike,
fShadow, fSmallCaps, fCaps, fVanish, kul and ico fields of the chp to 0. It was first
defined for Word 3.01 and had to be backward compatible with Word 3.00 so it is a variable
length sprm whose count of bytes is 0. It consists of the sprmCDefault opcode followed by a
byte of 0. sprmCDefault is stored only in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmCPlain (opcode 0x2A33) is used to make the character properties of runs of text equal to
the style character properties of the paragraph that contains the text. When Word interprets
this sprm, the style sheet CHP is copied over the original CHP preserving the fSpec setting
from the original CHP. sprmCPlain is stored only in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprms 0x0835 through 0x083C (sprmCFBold through sprmCFVanish) set single bit
properties in the CHP. When the parameter of the sprm is set to 0 or 1, then the CHP property
is set to the parameter value.
When the parameter of the sprm is 128, then the CHP property is set to the value that is stored
for the property in the style sheet CHP. When the parameter of the sprm is 129, the CHP
property is set to the negation of the value that is stored for the property in the style sheet
CHP. sprmCFBold through sprmCFVanish are stored only in grpprls linked to piece table
entries.
sprmCSizePos (opcode 0xEA3F) is a five-byte sprm consisting of the sprm opcode and a
three byte parameter. The sprm has the following format:
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 sprm short Opcode

2 2 hpsSize short :8 FF When != 0, contains new size of chp.hps

3 3 cInc short :7 FE Contains the number of font levels to increase or

decrease size of chp.hps as a two‘s complement value.

fAdjust short :1 01 When ==1, means that chp.hps should be adjusted up

or down by one font level for super/subscripting change

4 4 hpsPos short :8 FF When !=128, contains super/subscript position as a

two‘s complement number

When Word interprets this sprm, if hpsSize != 0 then chp.hps is set to hpsSize. If cInc
!= 0, the cInc is interpreted as a 7 bit two‘s complement number and the procedure described
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below for interpreting sprmCHpsInc is followed to increase or decrease the chp.hps by the
specified number of levels. If hpsPos!=128, then chp.hpsPos is set equal to hpsPos. If
fAdjust is on , hpsPos!=128 and hpsPos!=0 and the previous value of chp.hpsPos==0,
then chp.hps is reduced by one level following the method described for sprmCHpsInc. If
fAdjust is on, hpsPos==0 and the previous value of chp.hpsPos!=0, then the chp.hps
value is increased by one level using the method described below for sprmCHpsInc.
sprmCHpsInc(opcode 0x2A44) is a three-byte sprm consisting of the sprm opcode and a
one-byte parameter. Word keeps an ordered array of the font sizes that are defined for the
fonts recorded in the system file with each font size transformed into an hps. The parameter
is a one-byte two‘s complement number. Word uses this number to calculate an index in the
font size array to determine the new hps for a run. When Word interprets this sprm and the
parameter is positive, it searches the array of font sizes to find the index of the smallest entry
in the font size table that is greater than the current chp.hps. It then adds the parameter
minus 1 (-1) to the index and maxes this with the index of the last array entry. It uses the
result as an index into the font size array and assigns that entry of the array to chp.hps.
When the parameter is negative, Word searches the array of font sizes to find the index of the
entry that is less than or equal to the current chp.hps. It then adds the negative parameter
to the index and does a min of the result with 0. The result of the min function is used as an
index into the font size array and that entry of the array is assigned to chp.hps.
sprmCHpsInc is stored only in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmCHpsPosAdj (opcode 0x2A46) causes the hps of a run to be reduced the first time text
is superscripted or subscripted and causes the hps of a run to be increased when
superscripting/subscripting is removed from a run. The one byte parameter of this sprm is the
new hpsPos value to be stored in chp.hpsPos. If hpsPos!=0 (meaning that the text is to be
super/subscripted), Word first examines the current value of chp.hpsPos to see if it is equal
to 0. If so, Word uses the algorithm described for sprmCHpsInc to decrease chp.hps by one
level. If the new hpsPos==0 (meaning the text is not super/subscripted), Word examines the
current chp.hpsPos to see if it is not equal to 0. If it is not (which means text is being restored
to normal position), Word uses the sprmCHpsInc algorithm to increase chp.hps by one level.
After chp.hps is adjusted, the parameter value is stored in chp.hpsPos. sprmCHpsPosAdj
is stored only in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
The parameter of sprmCMajority (opcode 0xCA47) is itself a list of character sprms which
encodes a criterion under which certain fields of the chp are to be set equal to the values
stored in a style‘s CHP. Bytes 0 and 1 of sprmCMajority contains the opcode, byte 2 contains
the length of the following list of character sprms. Word begins interpretation of this sprm by
applying the stored character sprm list to a standard chp. That chp has
chp.istd=istdNormalChar. chp.hps=20, chp.lid=0x0400, and chp.ftc=4. Word then
compares fBold, fItalic, fStrike, fOutline, fShadow, fSmallCaps, fCaps, ftc, hps,
hpsPos, kul, cv, and ico in the original CHP with the values recorded for these fields in the
generated CHP. If a field in the original CHP has the same value as the field stored in the
generated CHP, then that field is reset to the value stored in the style‘s CHP. If the two copies
differ, then the original CHP value is left unchanged. sprmCMajority is stored only in
grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmCHpsInc1 (opcode 0xCA4A) is used to increase or decrease chp.hps by increments of
1. This sprm is interpreted by adding the two byte increment stored as the opcode of the sprm
to chp.hps. If this result is less than 8, the chp.hps is set to 8. If the result is greater than
32766, the chp.hps is set to 32766.
sprmCMajority50 (opcode 0xCA4C) has the same format as sprmCMajority and is
interpreted in the same way.
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sprmCPropRMark (opcode 0xCA57) is interpreted by moving the first parameter byte to

chp.fPropRMark, the next two bytes to chp.ibstPropRMark, and the remaining four bytes
to chp.dttmPropRMark.
sprmCDispFldRMark (opcode 0xCA62) is interpreted by moving the first parameter byte to
chp.fDispFldRMark, the next two bytes to chp.ibstDispFldRMark, the next four bytes
to chp.dttmDispFldRMark, and the remaining 32 bytes to chp.xstDispFldRMark.
sprmCRgftc0 (opcode 0x4A4F), sprmcCRgftc1(opcode 0x4A50), and sprmCRgftc2
(opcode 0x4A4F) are used to specify the available fonts for use with text. Rgftc0 specifies the
font used for characters U+0000 through U+007F. Rgftc1 specifies the font to use for East
Asian characters, and Rgftc2 specifies the font to use for all other text. See Appendix B for
details on how the font is calculated.
sprmCRglid0 (opcode 0x486D) and sprmCRglid1 (opcode 0x486E) are used to specify the
languages available for use with the text in this run. sprmCRglid1 specifies the language for
East Asian text, sprmCRglid0 specifies the language for all other text. See Appendix B for
details on how the language is calculated.
sprmCIdctHint (opcode 0x286F) specifies a script bias for the text in the run. For Unicode
characters shared between East Asian and non-East Asian scripts, this property determines
what font and language the character will use. When this value is 0, text properties bias
towards non-East Asian properties. When this value is 1, text properties bias towards East
Asian properties. See Appendix B for details on the calculation of font and language properties.
sprmCCvPermute (0xca7c) follows the permute structure:
SPRM+size+Old Value+New Value. The new value is applied if the current value equals the
old value. (So, sprmCCvPermute+Red+Blue is: if (pchp->cv==Red) then
(pchp->cv==Blue). This allows us to set a value if the user hasn‘t changed it since we
wanted to permute it, so if the user changed the color to yellow after we decided to change Red
to Blue, we would leave the users choice of Yellow alone.)
Complex Picture SPRMs
sprmPicScale (opcode 0xCE01) is used to scale the x and y dimensions of a Word picture and
to set the cropping for each side of the picture. The sprm begins with the two-byte opcode,
followed by the length of the parameter (always 12) stored in a byte. The 12-byte long
operand consists of an array of 6 two-byte integer fields. The 0th integer contains the new
setting for pic.mx. The 1st integer contains the new setting for pic.my. The 2nd integer
contains the new setting for pic.dxaCropLeft. The 3rd integer contains the new setting for
pic.dyaCropTop. The 4th integer contains the new setting for pic.dxaCropRight. The 5th
integer contains the new setting of pic.dxaCropBottom. sprmPicScale is stored only in
grpprls linked to piece table entries.
Complex Section SPRMs
sprmSPropRMark (opcode 0xD227) is interpreted by moving the first parameter byte to
sep.fPropRMark, the next two bytes to sep.ibstPropRMark, and the remaining four bytes
to sep.dttmPropRMark.
sprmSTextFlow (opcode 0x5033) represents the text flow to be applied to this section.
Possible values are:
0 Horizontal, non-@font
1 Top to bottom, @font
2 Bottom to top, non-@font
3 Top to bottom, non-@font
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4 Horizontal, @-font

Complex Table SPRMs

sprmTDxaLeft (opcode 0x9601) is called to adjust the x position within a column which
marks the left boundary of text within the first cell of a table row. This sprm causes a whole
table row to be shifted left or right within its column leaving the horizontal width and vertical
height of cells in the row unchanged. Bytes 0-1 of the sprm contain the opcode, and the new
dxa position, named dxaNew, is stored as an integer in bytes 2 and 3. Word interprets this
sprm by adding dxaNew-(rgdxaCenter[0]+tap.dxaGapHalf) to every entry of
tap.rgdxaCenter whose index is less than tap.itcMac. sprmTDxaLeft is stored only in
grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmTDxaGapHalf (opcode 0x9602) adjusts the white space that is maintained between
columns by changing tap.dxaGapHalf. Because the left boundary of text within the leftmost
cell should be at the same location after the sprm is applied, Word also adjusts
tap.rgdxCenter[0] by the amount that tap.dxaGapHalf changes. Bytes 0-1 of the sprm
contain the opcode, and the new dxaGapHalf, named dxaGapHalfNew, is stored in bytes 2
and 3. When the sprm is interpreted, the change between the old and new dxaGapHalf
values, tap.dxaGapHalf-dxaGapHalfNew, is added to tap.rgdxaCenter[0] and then
dxaGapHalfNew is moved to tap.dxaGapHalf. sprmTDxaGapHalf is stored in PAPXs and
also in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmTTableBorders80 (opcode 0xD605) sets the tap.rgbrcTable. The sprm is
interpreted by moving the 24 bytes of the sprm‘s operand to tap.rgbrcTable.
sprmTTableBorders (opcode 0xD613) sets the tap.rgbrcTable. The sprm is interpreted
by moving the 48 bytes of the sprm‘s operand (array of BRCs) to tap.rgbrcTable.
sprmTDefTable10 (opcode0xD606) is an obsolete version of sprmTDefTable (opcode
0xD608) that was used in WinWord 1.x. Its contents are identical to those in sprmTDefTable,
except that the TC structures contain the obsolete structures BRC10s.
sprmTDefTable (opcode 0xD608) defines the boundaries of table cells (tap.rgdxaCenter)
and the properties of each cell in a table (tap.rgtc) for Word 97. Bytes 0 and 1 of the sprm
contain its opcode. Bytes 2 and 3 store a two-byte length of the following parameter. Byte 4
contains the number of cells to be defined by the sprm, named itcMac. When the sprm is
interpreted, itcMac is moved to tap.itcMac. itcMac cannot be larger than 32. In bytes 5
through 5+2*(itcMac+1)-1, is stored in an array of integer dxa values sorted in ascending
order which are moved to tap.rgdxaCenter. In bytes 5+2*(itcMac+1) through byte
5+2*(itcMac+1)+10*itcMac-1 is stored in an array of TC entries corresponding to the
stored tap.rgdxaCenter. This array is moved to tap.rgtc. sprmTDefTable is only stored
in PAPXs.
sprmTDefTableShd80 (opcode 0xD609) is similar to sprmTDefTable, and complements it
by defining the shading of each cell in a table (tap.rgshd) for Word 97. Bytes 0 and 1 of the
sprm contain its opcode. Bytes 2 and 3 store a two-byte length of the following parameter.
Byte 4 contains the number of cells to be defined by the sprm, named itcMac. itcMac cannot
be larger than 32. In bytes 5 through 5+2*(itcMac+1)-1, is stored an array of SHD80s. This
array is moved to tap.rgshd. sprmTDefTable80 is only stored in PAPXs.
sprmTDefTableShd (opcode 0xd612). Operates on tap.rgtc[].shd. The opcode is
followed by the byte size in a short ((number of SHDs)*sizeof(SHD)), then an array of
SHDs. It only operates on columns 0 to 21 because anything larger would overflow the variable
sprm length of 255.
sprmTDefTableShd2nd (opcode 0xd616). Same as SprmTDefTableShd but for columns
22-43.
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sprmTDefTableShd3rd (opcode 0xd60c). Same as SprmTDefTableShd but for columns

44-63.
SprmTSetBrc80 (opcode 0xD620) allows the border definitions (BRC80s) within TCs to be set
to new values. It has the following format:
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 sprm short opcode 0xD620

2 2 count byte Number of bytes for operand

3 3 itcFirst byte The index of the first cell that is to have its borders
changed.

4 4 itcLim byte Index of the cell that follows the last cell to have
its borders changed

5 5 short :4 F0 Reserved

fChangeRight short :1 08 =1 when tap.rgtc[].brcRight is to be changed

fChangeBottom short :1 04 =1 when tap.rgtc[].brcBottom is to be changed

fChangeLeft short :1 02 =1 when tap.rgtc[].brcLeft is to be changed

fChangeTop short :1 01 =1 when tap.rgtc[].brcTop is to be changed

6 6 brc BRC80 New BRC value to be stored in TCs.

This sprm changes the brc fields selected by the fChange* flags in the sprm to the brc value
stored in the sprm, for every tap.rgtc entry whose index is greater than or equal to
itcFirst and less than itcLim.sprmTSetBrc is stored only in grpprls linked to piece
table entries.
sprmTSetBrc (opcode 0xD62F) works in the same manner as sprmTSetBrc80 but uses the
new BRC structure introduced in 2000.
sprmTInsert (opcode 0x7621) inserts new cell definitions in an existing table‘s cell structure.
Bytes 0 and 1 of the sprm contain the opcode. Byte 2 is the index within tap.rgdxaCenter
and tap.rgtc at which the new dxaCenter and tc values are inserted. This index is named
itcInsert. Byte 3 contains a count of the cell definitions to add to the tap, named ctc. Bytes
4 and 5 contain the width of the cells to add, named dxaCol. If there are already cells defined
at the index where cells are to be inserted, tap.rgdxaCenter entries at or above this index
must move to the entry ctc higher and must be adjusted by adding ctc*dxaCol to the value
stored. The contents of tap.rgtc at or above the index must be moved 10*ctc bytes higher
in tap.rgtc. If itcInsert is greater than the original tap.itcMac, itcInsert - tap.ctc
columns beginning with index tap.itcMac must be added of width dxaCol (loop from itcMac
to itcMac+itcInsert-tap.ctc adding dxaCol to the rgdxaCenter value of the previous
entry and storing the sum as dxaCenter of the new entry), whose TC entries are cleared to
zeros. Beginning with index itcInsert, ctc columns of width dxaCol must be added by
constructing new tap.rgdxaCenter and tap.rgtc entries with the newly defined rgtc
entries cleared to zeros. Finally, the sum of the number of cells added to the tap is added to
tap.itcMac. sprmTInsert is stored only in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmTDelete (opcode 0x5622) deletes cell definitions from an existing table‘s cell structure.
Bytes 0 and 1 of the sprm contain the opcode. Byte 2 contains the index of the first cell to
delete, named itcFirst. Byte 3 contains the index of the cell that follows the last cell to be
deleted, named itcLim. sprmTDelete causes any rgdxaCenter and rgtc entries whose
index is greater than or equal to itcLim to move to the entry that is itcLim-itcFirst
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lower, and causes tap.itcMac to decrease by the number of cells deleted. sprmTDelete is
stored only in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmTDxaCol (opcode 0x7623) changes the width of cells whose index is within a certain
range to be a certain value. Bytes 0 and 1 of the sprm contain the opcode. Byte 2 contains the
index of the first cell whose width is to change, named itcFirst. Byte 3 contains the index of
the cell that follows the last cell whose width is to change, named itcLim. Bytes 4 and 5
contain the new width of the cell, named dxaCol. This sprm causes the itcLim-itcFirst
entries of tap.rgdxaCenter to be adjusted so tap.rgdxaCenter[i+1] =
tap.rgdxaCenter[i]+dxaCol. Any tap.rgdxaCenter entries that exist beyond itcLim
are adjusted to take into account the amount added to or removed from the previous columns.
sprmTDxaCol is stored only in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmTMerge (opcode 0x5624) merges the display areas of cells within a specified range.
Bytes 0 and 1 of the sprm contain the opcode. Byte 2 contains the index of the first cell to
merge, named itcFirst. Byte 3 contains the index of the cell that follows the last cell to
merge, named itcLim. This sprm causes tap.rgtc[itcFirst].fFirstMerged to be set
to 1. Cells in the range whose index is greater than itcFirst and less than itcLim have
tap.rgtc[].fMerged set to 1. sprmTMerge is stored only in grpprls linked to piece table
entries.
sprmTSplit (opcode 0x5625) splits the display areas of merged cells into their originally
assigned display areas. Bytes 0 and 1 of the sprm contain the opcode. Byte 2 contains the
index of the first cell to split, named itcFirst. Byte 3 contains the index of the cell that
follows the last cell to split, named itcLim. This sprm clears tap.rgtc[].fFirstMerged
and tap.rgtc[].fMerged for all rgtc entries >= itcFirst and < itcLim. sprmTSplit is
stored only in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmTSetBrc10 (opcode 0xD626) has the same format as sprmTSetBrc but uses the old
BRC10 structure.
sprmTSetShd80 (opcode 0x7627) allows the Word 97 style shading definitions ( SHD80s)
within a tap to be set to new values. Bytes 0 and 1 of the sprm contain the opcode. Byte 2
contains the index of the first cell whose shading is to change, named itcFirst. Byte 3
contains the index of the cell that follows the last cell whose shading is to change, named
itcLim. Bytes 4 and 5 contain the SHD80 structure, named shd80. This sprm causes the
itcLim-itcFirst entries of tap.rgshd to be set to shd. sprmTSetShd is stored only in
grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmTSetShdOdd80 (opcode 0x7628) is identical to sprmTSetShd80, but it only changes
the rgshd for odd indices between itcFirst and itcLim. sprmTSetShdOdd80 is stored
only in grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmTSetShd (opcode 0xd62d) is identical to sprmTSetShd80 but uses the Word 2000 style
shading structure (SHD) and changes shading structures in tap.rgtc[].shd (so the indices
are indices into the rgtc).
sprmTSetShdOdd (opcode 0xd62e) is identical to sprmTSetShd, but it only changes the
rgshd for odd indices between itcFirst and itcLim.
sprmTVertMerge (opcode 0xD62B) changes the vertical cell merge properties for a cell in the
tap.rgtc[]. Bytes 0 and 1 of the sprm contain the opcode. Byte 2 contains the index of the
cell whose vertical cell merge properties are to change. Byte 3 sets the new vertical cell merge
properties for the cell, a 0 clears both fVertMerge and fVertRestart, a 1 sets fVertMerge
and clears fVertRestart, and a 3 sets both flags. sprmTVertMerge is stored only in
grpprls linked to piece table entries.
sprmTVertAlign (opcode 0xD62C) changes the vertical alignment property in the
tap.rgtc[]. Bytes 0 and 1 of the sprm contain the opcode. Byte 2 contains the index of the
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first cell whose shading is to change, named itcFirst. Byte 3 contains the index of the cell
that follows the last cell whose shading is to change, named itcLim. This sprm causes the
vertAlign properties of the itcLim-itcFirst entries of tap.rgtc[] to be set to the new
vertical alignment property contained in Byte 4. sprmTVertAlign is stored only in grpprls
linked to piece table entries.
sprmTCellPadding (0xd632), sprmTCellPaddingDefault (0xd634),
sprmTCellPaddingOuter (0xd638), sprmTCellSpacing (0xd631),
sprmTCellSpacingDefault (0xd633), sprmTCellSpacingOuter (0xd637) all have the same
parameter, a CSSA, which always has a length of 6 (size stored in the first byte).
A CSSA looks like this:
struct {
uchar itcFirst;
uchar itcLim
uchar grfbrc;
uchar ftsWidth;
short wWidth;
} CSSA;

The itcFirst and itcLim specify the indexes, respectively, of the first cell affected by the
SPRM and the first cell NOT affected by the SPRM, counting from 0. So if they are 1 and 3, that
means the 2nd and 3rd cell are affected, but not the 4th (index 3) or 1st (index 0). For the
"Default" sprms, the itcs are always 0 and 1, and affect the entire table.
The grfbrc is a bit field that specifies which borders of the affected cells are affected: 0x01
means top, 0x02 means Left, 0x04 means Bottom, and 0x08 means Right.
sprmTCellWidth (0xd635) has the following parameter (size stored in the first byte):
uchar itcFirst;
uchar itcLim
uchar ftsWidth;
short wWidth;

The ftsWidth and wWidth specify the desired width and width units for all cells with index >=
itcFirst and < itcLim.
sprmTTableWidth (0xf614), sprmTWidthAfter (0xf618), sprmTWidthBefore (0xf617),
sprmTWidthIndent (0xf661) all change an ftsWidth and a wWidth value. The first byte is
the ftsWidth and the remaining two bytes are the wWidth value.
sprmTPc (0x360d) behaves just like sprmPPc, but it applies to absolutely positioned tables.
sprmTDiagLine80 (0xd62a). Contains 2 BRC80s for the two diagonal lines for each column.
sprmTDiagLine (0xd630) is the same as sprmTDiagLine80, but with 2 BRC80s instead.
sprmTBrcBottomCv (0xd61c) contains the size of the parameter and an array of itcMax
(64) COLORREFS, one for each TC.rgbrc[ibrcBottom].cv in
tap.rgtc[itcMax].rgbrc[ibrcBottom].cv.
sprmTBrcLeftCv (0xd61b). Same as sprmTBrcBottomCv, but changing cv for
rgtc[itcMax].rgbrc[ibrcLeft].
sprmTBrcRightCv (0xd61d) Same as sprmTBrcBottomCv, but changing cv for
rgtc[itcMax].rgbrc[ibrcRight].
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sprmTBrcTopCv (0xd61a) Same as sprmTBrcBottomCv, but changing cv for

rgtc[itcMax].rgbrc[ibrcTop].
sprmTCellBrcType (0xd662) contains the brcType for the entire tap.rgtc in the following
sequence: rgtc[0].brcTop.brcType, rgtc[0].brcLeft.brcType,
rgtc[0].brcBottom.brcType, rgtc[0].brcRight.brcType, rgtc[1].... The first two
bytes following the opcode contain the size of the parameter.

Complex File Format

There are some differences between the file format of a full saved document and that of a fast
saved document. In Word 95 and earlier versions , one of the differences was the necessity to
include the ―complex‖ table information. In Word 97 and later versions, the fcClx always
indicates the location of the ―complex‖ table information and is used to determine the location
and contents of text and properties. This is necessary due to the effects of Unicode and
Unicode compression.
fcClx is the fc where the complex part of the file begins, and cbClx is the size (in bytes) of
the complex part. The complex part of the file contains a group of grpprls that encode
formatting changes made by the user and a piece table ( plcfpcd). The piece table is needed
because the text of the document is not stored contiguously in the file after a fast save.
The complex part of a file (CLX) is composed of a number of variable-sized blocks of data.
Recorded first are any grpprls that may be referenced by the plcfpcd (if the plcfpcd has
no grpprl references, no grpprls are recorded) followed by the plcfpcd. Each block in the
complex part is prefaced by a clxt (clx type), which is a 1-byte code, either 1 (meaning the
block contains a grpprl) or 2 (meaning this is the plcfpcd). A clxtGrpprl(1) is followed
by a 2-byte cb which is the count of bytes of the grpprl. A clxtPlcfpcd(2) is followed by
a 4-byte lcb which is the count of bytes of the piece table. A full saved file has no
clxtGrpprls. So the formats of the two types of blocks are:
clxt = 1 clxtGrpprl
cb Count of bytes in grpprl
grpprl See "Definitions" for a description of grpprl. A grpprl can contain sprms
modifying character, paragraph, table, section or picture properties.

or
clxt = 2 clxtPlcfpcd
lcb Count of bytes in piece table
plcfpcd Piece table

The entire CLX would look like this, depending on the number of grpprls:
clxtGrpprl
cb
grpprl (0th grpprl)
clxtGrpprl
cb
grpprl (1st grpprl)
...
clxtPlcfpcd
cb
plcfpcd
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When the prm in pcds stored in the plcfpcd, contain an igrpprl (index to a grpprl), the
index stored is the order in which that grpprl was stored in the CLX.

Algorithm to determine the BOUNDS OF A PARAGRAPH

containing a certain character in a complex file
When a document is recorded in non-complex format, the bounds of the paragraph that
contains a particular character can be found by calculating the FC coordinate of the character,
searching the bin table to find an FKP page that describes that FC, fetching that FKP, and then
searching the FKP to find the interval in the rgfc that encloses the character. The bounds of
the interval are the fcFirst and fcLim of the paragraph with the found character. Every
character >= fcFirst and < fcLim are part of the paragraph.
When a document is recorded in complex format, a piece that was originally part of one
paragraph can be copied or moved to a different paragraph. To find the beginning of a
paragraph with a desired character in a complex document, it‘s necessary to search for the
piece containing the character in the piece table. Then calculate the FC in the file that stores
the character from the piece table information. Using the FC, search the FCs FKP for the
largest FC less than the character‘s FC, named fcTest. If the character at fcTest-1 is
contained in the current piece, then the character corresponding to that FC in the piece is the
first character of the paragraph. If that FC is before, or marks, the beginning of the piece, scan
a piece at a time towards the beginning of the piece table until a piece is found that contains
a paragraph mark. This can be done by using the end of the piece FC, finding the largest FC in
its FKP that is less than or equal to the end of piece FC, and checking to see if the character in
front of the FKP FC (which must mark a paragraph end) is within the piece. When such an FKP
FC is found, the FC marks the first byte of paragraph text.
To find the end of a paragraph for a character in a complex format file, it is necessary to know
the piece that contains the character and the FC assigned to the character. Using the FC of the
character, search the FKP that describes the character to find the smallest FC in the rgfc that
is larger than the character FC. If the FC found in the FKP is less than or equal to the limit FC
of the piece, the end of the paragraph that contains the character is at the FKP FC minus 1. If
the FKP FC that was found was greater than the FC of the end of the piece, scan piece by piece
toward the end of the document until a piece is found that contains a paragraph end mark. It‘s
possible to check if a piece contains a paragraph mark by using the FC of the beginning of the
piece to search in the FKPs for the smallest FC in the FKP rgfc that is greater than the FC of
the beginning of the piece. If the FC found is less than or equal to the limit FC of the piece, then
the character that ends the paragraph is the character immediately before the FKP FC.
A special procedure must be followed to locate the last paragraph of the main document text
when footnote or header/footer text is saved in a Word file (i.e. when fib.ccpFtn != 0 or
fib.ccpHdr != 0).
In this case the CP of that paragraph mark is
fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpMcr+fib.ccpAtn and the limit CP of
the entire plcfpcd is
fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+fib.ccpMcr+fib.ccpAtn+1.
Algorithm to determine PARAGRAPH PROPERTIES for a
paragraph in a complex file
Having found the index i of the FC in an FKP that marks the character stored in the file
immediately after the paragraph‘s paragraph mark, use the word offset stored in the first byte
of the fkp.rgbx[i-1] to find the PAPX for the paragraph. Using papx.istd to index into the
properties stored for the style sheet, the paragraph properties of the style are copied to a local
PAP. Then the grpprl stored in the PAPX is applied to the local PAP, and papx.istd along
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with fkp.rgbx.phe are moved into the local PAP. The process thus far has created a PAP that
describes what the paragraph properties of the paragraph were at the last full save. Now apply
any paragraph sprms that were linked to the piece that contains the paragraph‘s paragraph
mark. If pcd.prm.fComplex==0, pcd.prm contains 1 sprm which should only be applied to
the local PAP if it is a paragraph sprm. If pcd.prm.fComplex==1, pcd.prm.igrpprl is the
index of a grpprl in the CLX. If that grpprl contains any paragraph sprms, they should be
applied to the local PAP. After applying all of the sprms for the piece, the local PAP contains the
correct paragraph property values.

Algorithm to determine TABLE PROPERTIES for a table row

in a complex file
To determine the table properties for a table row in a complex file, scan paragraph by
paragraph toward the end of the table row, until a paragraph is found with pap.fTtp=1. This
paragraph consists of a single row end character. This row end character is linked to the table
properties of the row. To create the TAP for the table row, clear a local TAP to zeros. Then the
PAPX for the row end character must be fetched from an FKP, and the table sprms that are
stored in this PAPX must be applied to the local TAP. This process has created a TAP that
describes what the table properties of the table row were at the last full save. Now apply any
table sprms linked to the piece that contains the table row‘s row end character. If
pcd.prm.fComplex==0, pcd.prm contains 1 sprm which should be applied to the local TAP
if it is a table sprm. If pcd.prm.fComplex==1, pcd.prm.igrpprl is the index of a grpprl
in the CLX. If that grpprl contains any table sprms, apply them to the local TAP. After all of
the sprms for the piece are applied, the local TAP contains the correct table property values for
the table row.
Note: inside nested tables (pap.itap > 1) the end of cell and end of row markers are
indicated by sprmPFInnerTable Cell and sprmPFInnerTtp. They are otherwise emitted as
regular paragraphs for backward compatibility. Nested tables are possible in Word 2000 and
later versions.

Algorithm to determine the CHARACTER PROPERTIES of a

character in a complex file
It is necessary to fetch the paragraph properties of the paragraph that contains the character.
The pap.istd of the fetched properties specifies which style sheet entry provides the default
character properties for the character. The character properties recorded in the style sheet for
that style are copied into a local CHP. Then, the piece containing the character is located in the
piece table (plcfpcd) and the fc of the character is calculated. Using the character‘s FC, the
page number of the CHPX FKP that describes the character is found by searching the bin table
(hplcfbteChpx). The CHPX FKP stored in that page is fetched and then the rgfc in the FKP
is searched to locate the bounds of the run of exception text that encompasses the character.
The CHPX for that run is then located within the FKP, and the CHPX is applied to the contents
of the local CHP. This process creates a CHP that describes the character properties as of the
last full save. Now apply any character sprms linked to the piece that contains the character.
If pcd.prm.fComplex==0, pcd.prm contains 1 sprm which should be applied to the local
CHP if it is a character sprm. If pcd.prm.fComplex==1, pcd.prm.igrpprl is the index of a
grpprl in the CLX. If that grpprl contains any character sprms, apply them to the local CHP.
After applying all of the sprms for the piece, the local CHP contains the correct properties for
the character.
Characters within the same piece, same paragraph, and same run of exception text are
guaranteed to have the same properties. This fact can be used to construct a scanner that can
return the limit CPs and properties of a sequence of characters that all have the same
properties.
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Algorithm to determine the SECTION PROPERTIES of a

section in a complex file
To determine which section a character belongs to and what its section properties are, it is
necessary to use the CP of the character to search the plcfsed for the index i of the largest
CP that is less than or equal to the character‘s CP. plcfsed.rgcp[i] is the CP of the first
character of the section and plcfsed.rgcp[i+1] is the CP of the character following the
section mark that terminates the section (named cpLim). Then retrieve plcfsed.rgsed[i].
The FC in this SED gives the location where the SEPX for the section is stored. Then create a
local SEP with default section properties. If the sed.fc!=0xFFFFFFFF, then the sprms within
the SEPX that is stored at offset sed.fc must be applied to the local SEP. This process creates
a SEP that describes what the section properties of the section were at the last full save. Now
apply any section sprms that were linked to the piece that contains the section‘s section mark.
If pcd.prm.fComplex==0, pcd.prm contains 1 sprm which should be applied to the local
SEP if it is a section sprm. If pcd.prm.fComplex==1, pcd.prm.igrpprl is the index of a
grpprl in the CLX. If that grpprl contains any section sprms, they should be applied to the
local SEP. After applying all of the section sprms for the piece, the local SEP contains the
correct section properties.

Algorithm to determine the PIC of a picture in a complex

file.
The picture sprms contained in the prm's grpprl apply to any picture characters within the
piece that have their chp.fSpec character ==fTrue. The picture properties for a picture (the
PIC described in the Structure Definitions) are derived by fetching the PIC stored with the
picture and applying to that PIC any picture sprms linked to the piece containing the picture
special character.

Footnotes & Endnotes

In Word the text of footnotes and endnotes is anchored to a particular position within the
document‘s main text, the location of its footnote/endnote reference. The following discussion
only describes footnotes, with endnotes being handled identically, except that the endnote
data structures contain the ―edn‖ abbreviation where footnote data structures contain the
―fnd‖ abbreviation. There is a structure referenced by the fib, the plcffndRef, which
records the locations of the footnote references within the main text address space and
another structure referenced by the fib, the plcffndTxt, which records the beginning
locations of corresponding footnote text within the footnote text address space. The footnote
text characters in a full saved file begin at offset fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText and extends till
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn. In a complex fast-saved document, the footnote
text begins at CP fib.ccpText and extends till fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn. To find the
location of the ith footnote reference in the main text address space, look up the ith entry in
the plcffndRef and find the location of the text corresponding to the reference within the
footnote text address space by looking up the ith entry in the plcffndTxt.
When there are n footnotes, the plcffndTxt structure consists of n+2 CP entries. The CP
entries mark the beginning character position within the footnote text address space of the
footnote text for the footnotes defined for the file. The beginning CP of the text of the ith
footnote is the ith CP within the plcffndTxt. The limit CP of the text of the ith footnote is the
i+1st CP within the plcffndTxt.
The last character of footnote text for a footnote (i.e. the character at limit CP-1) is always a
paragraph end (ASCII 13). If there are n footnotes, the n+2nd CP entry value is always 1
greater than the n+1st CP entry value. A paragraph end (ASCII 13) is always stored at the file
position marked by the n+1st CP value.
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When there are n footnotes, the plcffndRef structure consists of n+1 CP entries followed by
n integer flags, named fAuto. The ith CP in the plcffndRef corresponds to the ith fAuto
flag. The CP entries give the locations of footnote references within the main text address
space. The n+1th CP entry contains the value fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+1.
The fAuto flag contains 1 whenever the footnote reference name is auto-generated by Word.
When a footnote reference name is automatically generated by Word, Word generates the
name by adding 1 to the index number of the reference in the plcffndRef and translating
that number to ASCII text. When the footnote reference is auto generated, the character at
the main text CP position for the footnote reference should be a footnote reference character
(ASCII 5) which has a chp recorded with chp.fSpec=1.
The number of footnotes stored in a Word binary file can be found by
(fib.cbPlcffndTxt/4)-1.

Headers and Footers

The header and footer text characters in a full saved file begin at offset
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn and extend till
fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr. In a complex fast-saved document,
the footnote text begins at CP fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn and extends till
fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr. The plcfhdd, a table whose location and length
within the file is stored in fib.fcPlcfhdd and fib.cbPlcfhdd, describes where the text of
each header/footer begins. If there are n headers/footers stored in the Word file, the plcfhdd
consists of n+2 CP entries. The beginning CP of the ith header/footer is the ith CP in the
plcfhdd. The limit CP (the CP of character 1 position past the end of a header/footer) of the
ith header/footer is the i+1st CP in the plcfhdd. Note: at the limit CP - 1, Word always
places a chEop as a placeholder which is never displayed as part of the header/footer. This
allows Word to change an existing header/footer to be empty.
If there are n header/footers, the n+2nd CP entry value is always 1 greater than the n+1st
CP entry value. A paragraph end (ASCII 13) is always stored at the file position marked by the
n+1st CP value.
The transformation in a full saved file from a header/footer CP to an offset from the beginning
of a file (fc) is fc=fib.fcMin+ccpText+ccpFtn+cp.
In Word, headers/footers can be defined for a document that will:
1. act as a separator between main text and footnote text.
2. print below footnote text on a page when footnote text must be continued on a succeeding
page (continuation separator).
3. print above footnote text on a page when the text must be continued from a previous page
(continuation notice).
4. act as a separator between main text and endnote text.
5. print below endnote text on a page when endnote text must be continued on a succeeding
page (continuation separator).
6. print above endnote text on a page when the text must be continued from a previous page
(continuation notice).
Also for each section defined for the document, distinct headers can be defined for printing on
odd-numbered/right facing pages, even-numbered/left facing pages and the first page of a
section. Similarly for each document section, distinct footers can be defined for printing on
odd-numbered/right facing pages, even-numbered/left facing pages and the first page of a
section.
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The plcfhdd contains an entry for each kind of header or footer. (The grpfIhdt is no longer
used to find entries in the plcfhdd.) Indices in the plcfhdd are as follows:
0 Header for even pages
1 Header for odd pages
2 Footer for even pages
3 Footer for odd pages
4 Header for first page of section
5 Footer for first page of section
6 Footnote separator
7 Footnote continuation separator
8 Footnote continuation notice
9 Endnote separator
10 Endnote continuation separator
11 Endnote continuation notice

Page Table
Page table information is optional data which is not always stored in a Word binary file. It may
be stored for the main text, footnote text and endnote text. The fib contains three FCPGD
structures (fcpgdMother, fcpgdFtn, fcpgdEdn) which point to where the data is stored.
Each fcpgd points to a PLF of PGD structures and a PLCF of BKD structures. The PLF of PGD
descriptors contains n entries where n is the number of pages in the associated text stream.
The PLC of BKDs contains >= n entries where each entry describes a single break (page break
or otherwise) within the text stream. Each BKD is associated with a PGD and contains an ipgd
which is an index into the PLF of PGDs. To find the CP range of a given page, traverse the BKDs
searching for the first and last BKD which refer to the given page. The CP range of these BKDs
is the CP range of the page.
If a Word document is edited in any way, the fcpgds in the fib should be filled with 0s.

Glossary Files
A Word glossary file is a normal Word binary file with two supplemental files, the sttbfglsy,
the sttbglsystyle and the plcfglsy, also stored in the file. The sttbfglsy contains a list
of the names of glossary entries, the sttbglsystyle contains a list of the style names for
every auto text entry, and the plcfglsy contains a table of beginning positions within the
text address space of the file of the text of glossary entries.
The sttbfglsy begins with an integer count of bytes of the size of the sttbfglsy (includes
the size of the integer count of bytes). If there are n glossary entries defined, n Pascal-type
strings (string preceded by length byte) will follow, concatenated one after the other. Each
string storing one glossary entry name. The collection of glossary entry names must be sorted
in case-insensitive ascending order (i.e. a and A are treated as equal). Also the names date
and time must be included in the list of names. The name of the ith glossary entry is the ith
name defined in the sttbfglsy. The extra field in each entry contains an index on the
sttbglsystyle that indicates the style name of the first paragraph in plcfglsy.
The sttbglsystyle is not sorted and has no duplicates. Each entry has an extra field
indicating how many auto text entries have that style.
If there are n glossary entries, the plcfglsy, will consist of n+2 CP entries. The ith CP entry
will contain the location of the beginning of the text for the ith glossary entry. The i+1st CP
entry will contain the limit CP of the ith glossary entry. The character at a CP position of limit
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CP-1 is always a paragraph mark. The n+2nd CP entry always contains

fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr+1 if there are headers, footers or footnotes
stored in the glossary and contains fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdr otherwise. The
n+1st CP entry is always 1 less than the value of the n+2nd entry.
The text for the time and date entries are always a single paragraph mark (ASCII 13).

Routing Slip
A routing slip is stored in the main document stream as an RS (Routing Slip) structure followed
by a set of variable length data. After the RS structure are 4 null terminated strings. Each
string is preceded by a short integer containing the string length (including the null
terminator). The strings are: the subject, the message text, status and title. Following these
strings are a variable number (rs.cRecip) of Routing Recipient (RR) records. Each RR record
is immediately followed by a variable number (rr.cb) of bytes containing private data, which
is in turn followed by a null terminated string containing the recipient name.

Auto Summary
For a document for which AutoSummary View is active (specified in the ASUMYI), the
plcfasumy records the result of the last AutoSummary analysis. Each ASUMY in the PLCF
gives the AutoSummary level for the text starting at the corresponding CP. The level must be
non-negative and no greater than the upper bound specified in the ASUMYI. The ASUMYI
specifies the current summary view level. In emphasize view mode, all text at and below the
current summary view level is highlighted. In reduce view mode, all text above the current
summary view level is hidden.

STTBFASSOC (Table of Associated Strings)

The following are indices into a table of associated strings:
Ibst Index Description

ibstAssocFileNext 0 Unused

ibstAssocDot 1 Filename of associated template

ibstAssocTitle 2 Title of document

ibstAssocSubject 3 Subject of document

ibstAssocKeyWords 4 Keywords of document

ibstAssocComments 5 Comments of document

ibstAssocAuthor 6 Author of document

ibstAssocLastRevBy 7 Name of person who last revised the document

ibstAssocDataDoc 8 Filename of data document

ibstAssocHeaderDoc 9 Filename of header document

ibstAssocCriteria1 10 Packed string used by print merge record selection

ibstAssocCriteria2 11 Packed string used by print merge record selection

ibstAssocCriteria3 12 Packed string used by print merge record selection

ibstAssocCriteria4 13 Packed string used by print merge record selection

ibstAssocCriteria5 14 Packed string used by print merge record selection

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Ibst Index Description

ibstAssocCriteria6 15 Packed string used by print merge record selection

ibstAssocCriteria7 16 Packed string used by print merge record selection

ibstAssocMax 17 Maximum number of strings in string table

The format of the ibstAssocCriteriaX strings are as follows:

int cbIbstAssoc:8; // BYTE 0 size of ibstAssocCriteriaX string
int fCompOr:1; // BYTE 1 set if cond is an or cond
int iCompOp:7; // BYTE 1 index of Comparison Operator
char stMergeField[]; // Name of MergeField
char stCompInfo[]; // User Supplied Comparison Information

Both stMergeField and stCompInfo are variable length character arrays preceded by a
length byte.

Structure Definitions
AnnoTation Reference Descriptor for Word 2000
(ATRDPre10)
Word 2000 Annotation Reference Descriptor, now part of a modified Descriptor structure along
with newly introduced properties.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 xstUsrInitl XCHAR[10] Pascal-style string holding initials of

annotation author

20 14 ibst short Index into GrpXstAtnOwners

22 16 ak short :2 0003 Unused

short :14 FFFC Unused

24 18 grfbmc uns short Unused

26 1A lTagBkmk long When not –1, this tag identifies the

annotation bookmark that locates the range
of CPs in the main document which this
annotation references

cbATRDPre10 (count of bytes of ATRDPre10) is 30 (decimal), 1E(hex).

AnnoTation Reference Descriptor Additions for Word 2002
(ATRDPost10)
This structure was introduced in Word 2002 to augment the Annotation Reference Description
structure.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 dttm DTTM Date and time for the comment

4 4 fResolved BF :1 01 Comment has been resolved

BF :15 FFFE Unused

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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

6 6 cDepth int Depth of the comment

10 A diatrdParen Int Index of the parent of the comment

t
14 E fOWSDiscuss BFL :1 01 Boolean indicating that this is a comment
ionItem from a web server discussion.

fInkAtn BFL :1 02 Boolean indicating this is an ink annotation.

BFL :14 FFFC Unused

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AnnoTation Reference Descriptor (ATRD)

The modified Annotation Reference Descriptor introduced in Word 2002 combining the
information from the previous two structures.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 atrdPre10 ATRDre10 30 See structure definition above

20 14 atrdPost10 ATRDPost10 18 See structure definition above

cbATRD (count of bytes of ATRD) is 48 (decimal), 30(hex).

Auto Numbered List Data Descriptor (ANLD)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 anlv ANLV (see 20 Number only 1 item per table cell

description of
ANLV
structure)

20 14 fNumber1 uns char Number only 1 item per table cell

21 15 fNumberAcross uns char Number across cells in table rows(instead

of down)

22 16 fRestartHdn uns char Restart heading number on section

boundary

23 17 fSpareX uns char Unused (should be 0)

24 18 rgxch array of 32 Characters displayed before/after auto

XCHARs number

cbANLD (count of bytes of ANLD) is 88 (decimal), 58(hex).

Auto Numbered List Data Descriptor for Word 97 (ANLD80)
Same as ANLD but anlv is of type ANLV80 rather than ANLV.

Auto Number Level Descriptor (ANLV)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 nfc unsigned char Number format code (use the number

format table below)

1 1 cxchTextBefore unsigned char Offset into anld.rgxch that is the limit of

the text that will be displayed as the
prefix of the auto number text

2 2 cxchTextAfter unsigned char anld.cxchTextBefore will be the

beginning offset of the text in the
anld.rgxch that will be displayed as the
suffix of an auto number. The sum of
anld.cxchTextBefore +
anld.cxchTextAfter will be the limit of
the auto number suffix in anld.rgxch

3 3 jc uns char :2 03 Justification code

0 left justify
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

1 center
2 right justify
3 left and right justify

fPrev uns char :1 04 When ==1, number generated will

include previous levels (used for legal
numbering)

fHang uns char :1 08 When ==1, number will be displayed

using a hanging indent

fSetBold uns char :1 10 When ==1, boldness of number will be

determined by anld.fBold

fSetItalic uns char :1 20 When ==1, italicness of number will be

determined by anld.fItalic

fSetSmallCaps uns char :1 40 When ==1, anld.fSmallCaps will

determine whether number will be
displayed in small caps or not

fSetCaps uns char :1 80 When ==1, anld.fCaps will determine

whether number will be displayed
capitalized or not

4 4 fSetStrike uns char :1 01 When ==1, anld.fStrike will determine

whether the number will be displayed
using strikethrough or not.

fSetKul uns char :1 02 When ==1, anld.kul will determine the

underlining state of the auto number

fPrevSpace uns char :1 04 When ==1, auto number will be

displayed with a single prefixing space
character

fBold uns char :1 08 Determines boldness of auto number

when anld.fSetBold == 1

FItalic uns char :1 10 Determines italicness of auto number

when anld.fSetItalic == 1

fSmallCaps uns char :1 20 Determines whether auto number will be

displayed using small caps when
anld.fSetSmallCaps == 1

fCaps uns char :1 40 Determines whether auto number will be

displayed using caps when
anld.fSetCaps == 1

fStrike uns char :1 80 Determines whether auto number will be

displayed using caps when
anld.fSetStrike == 1

5 5 kul uns char :3 07 Determines whether auto number will be

displayed with underlining when
anld.fSetKul == 1

ico uns char :5 F1 Color of auto number for Word 97;

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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

unused in Word 2000

6 6 ftc short Font code of auto number

8 8 hps uns short Font half point size (or 0=auto)

10 A iStartAt uns short Starting value (0 to 65535)

12 C dxaIndent Width of prefix text (same as indent)

14 E dxaSpace uns short Minimum space between number and

paragraph

16 F COLORREF 4 24-bit color for Word 2000

cv

cbANLV (count of bytes of ANLV) is 20 bytes (decimal), 14 bytes (hex).

Number Format Table
nfc value Numbering scheme
0 Arabic (1, 2, 3)
1 Uppercase Roman numeral (I, II, III)
2 Lowercase Roman numeral (i, ii, iii)
3 Uppercase letter (A, B, C)
4 Lowercase letter (a, b, c)
5 Ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
6 Cardinal text number (One, Two Three)
7 Ordinal text number (First, Second, Third)
10 Kanji numbering without the digit character (dbnum1).
11 Kanji numbering with the digit character (dbnum2).
12 46 phonetic Katakana characters in "aiueo" order (aiueo).
13 46 phonetic katakana characters in "iroha" order (iroha).
14 Double Byte character
15 Single Byte character
16 Kanji numbering 3 (dbnum3).
17 Kanji numbering 4 (dbnum4).
18 Circle numbering (circlenum).
19 Double-byte Arabic numbering
20 46 phonetic double-byte Katakana characters (*aiueo*dbchar).
21 46 phonetic double-byte katakana characters (*iroha*dbchar).
22 Arabic with leading zero (01, 02, 03, ..., 10, 11)
23 Bullet (no number at all)
24 Korean numbering 2 (ganada).
25 Korean numbering 1 (chosung).
26 Chinese numbering 1 (gb1).
27 Chinese numbering 2 (gb2).
28 Chinese numbering 3 (gb3).
29 Chinese numbering 4 (gb4).
30 Chinese Zodiac numbering 1
31 Chinese Zodiac numbering 2
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nfc value Numbering scheme

32 Chinese Zodiac numbering 3
33 Taiwanese double-byte numbering 1
34 Taiwanese double-byte numbering 2
35 Taiwanese double-byte numbering 3
36 Taiwanese double-byte numbering 4
37 Chinese double-byte numbering 1
38 Chinese double-byte numbering 2
39 Chinese double-byte numbering 3
40 Chinese double-byte numbering 4
41 Korean double-byte numbering 1
42 Korean double-byte numbering 2
43 Korean double-byte numbering 3
44 Korean double-byte numbering 4
45 Hebrew non-standard decimal
46 Arabic Alif Ba Tah
47 Hebrew Biblical standard
48 Arabic Abjad style
49 Hindi vowels
50 Hindi consonants
51 Hindi numbers
52 Hindi descriptive (cardinals)
53 Thai letters
54 Thai numbers
55 Thai descriptive (cardinals
56 Vietnamese descriptive (cardinals)
57 Page Number format - # -
58 Lower case Russian alphabet
59 Upper case Russian alphabet

Auto Number Level Descriptor for Word 97 (ANLV80)

Same as ANLV but without the cv property.

AutoSummary Analysis (ASUMY)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 lLevel long AutoSummary level

cbASUMY (count of bytes of ASUMY) is 4 bytes.

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AutoSummary Info (ASUMYI)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 fValid short :1 0001 True if the ASUMYI is valid

fView short :1 0002 True if AutoSummary View is active

iViewBy short :2 000C Display method for AutoSummary View:

0 = Emphasize in current doc
1 = Reduce doc to summary
2 = Insert into doc
3 = Show in new document

fUpdateProps short :1 0010 True if File Properties summary information

should be updated after the next summarization

reserved short :11 FFE0 Reserved

2 2 wDlgLevel short Dialog summary level

4 4 lHighestLevel long Upper bound for lLevel for sentences in this

document

8 8 lCurrentLevel long Show document sentences at or below this level

cbASUMYI (count of bytes of ASUMYI) is 12 bytes (decimal), C bytes (hex).

Bin Table Entry (BTE)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 pn long :22 AutoSummary level

unused long :10 Unused

cbBTE (count of bytes of BTE) is 4 bytes.

BreaK Descriptor (BKD)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 ipgd short Except in textbox BKD, index to PGD in plfpgd

that describes the page this break is on

0 0 itxbxs short In textbox BKD,

2 2 dcpDepend short Number of cp's considered for this break; note

that the CP's described by cpDepend in this break
reside in the next BKD

icol uns :8 00FF

short

fTableBreak uns :1 0100 When 1, this indicates that this is a table break.
short

fColumnBreak uns :1 0200 When 1, this indicates that this is a column break.
short

fMarked uns :1 0400 Used temporarily while Word is running.

short
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

fUnk uns :1 0800 In textbox BKD, when == 1 indicates cpLim of this

short textbox is not valid

fTextOverflow uns :1 1000 In textbox BKD, when == 1 indicates that text

short overflows the end of this textbox

cbBKD (count of bytes of BKD) is 6.

BooKmark First descriptor (BKF)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 ibkl short Index to BKL entry in plcfbkl that describes the

ending position of this bookmark in the CP stream

2 2 itcFirst uns :7 007F When bkf.fCol==1, this is the index to the first
short column of a table column bookmark

fPub uns :1 0080 When 1, this indicates that this bookmark is marking
short the range of a Macintosh Publisher section

itcLim uns :7 7F00 When bkf.fCol==1, this is the index to limit column of
short a table column bookmark

fCol uns :1 8000 When 1, this bookmark marks a range of columns in a

short table specified by (bkf.itcFirst, bkf.itcLim)

cbBKF (count of bytes of BKF) is 4.

BooKmark Lim descriptor (BKL)
The BKL is no longer stored in the plcfbkl or plcfatnbkl, and is instead reconstructed from
the plcfbkf or plcfatnbkf when the file is opened.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 ibkf short Index to BKF entry in plcfbkf describing the beginning

position of this bookmark in the CP stream. If the
bkl.ibkf is negative, add on the number of bookmarks
recorded in the hplcbkf to the bkl.ibkf to calculate
the index to the BKF that corresponds to this entry.

cbBKL (count of bytes of BKL) is 2.

Border Code (BRC)
The BRC is a substructure of the CHP, PAP, PIC, SEP, TAP and TC. See also the BRC structures
for older versions.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 cv COLORREF 4 24-bit border color

4 4 grpfBrc ulong 4

4 4 dptLineWidth long :8 FF Width of a single line in 1/8 pt, max of 32 pt.

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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

brcType long :8 FF00 Border type code:

0 none
1 single
2 thick
3 double
5 hairline
6 dot
7 dash large gap
8 dot dash
9 dot dot dash
10 triple
11 thin-thick small gap
12 thick-thin small gap
13 thin-thick-thin small gap
14 thin-thick medium gap
15 thick-thin medium gap
16 thin-thick-thin medium gap
17 thin-thick large gap
18 thick-thin large gap
19 thin-thick-thin large gap
20 wave
21 double wave
22 dash small gap
23 dash dot stroked
24 emboss 3D
25 engrave 3D
codes 64 – 230 represent border art types and are used
only for page borders

dptSpace long :5 1F0000 Width of space to maintain between border and text within
border

Must be 0 when BRC is a substructure of TC.

Stored in points.

fShadow long :1 200000 When 1, border is drawn with shadow. Must be 0 when BRC
is a substructure of the TC

fFrame long :1 400000 When 1, don‘t reverse the border.

unused long :9 FF800000 Reserved

cbBRC (count of bytes of BRC) is 8.

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Border Code for Word 97 (BRC80)

The BRC80 is a substructure of the CHP, PAP, PIC, SEP, TAP and TC for Word 97.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 dptLineWidth short :8 00FF Width of a single line in 1/8 pt, max of 32 pt.

brcType short :8 FF00 Border type code:

0 none
1 single
2 thick
3 double
5 hairline
6 dot
7 dash large gap
8 dot dash
9 dot dot dash
10 triple
11 thin-thick small gap
12 thick-thin small gap
13 thin-thick-thin small gap
14 thin-thick medium gap
15 thick-thin medium gap
16 thin-thick-thin medium gap
17 thin-thick large gap
18 thick-thin large gap
19 thin-thick-thin large gap
20 wave
21 double wave
22 dash small gap
23 dash dot stroked
24 emboss 3D
25 engrave 3D
codes 64 – 230 represent border art types and
are used only for page borders

2 2 ico short :8 00FF Color:

0 Auto
1 Black
2 Blue
3 Cyan
4 Green
5 Magenta
6 Red
7 Yellow
8 White
9 DkBlue
10 DkCyan
11 DkGreen
12 DkMagenta
13 DkRed
14 DkYellow
15 DkGray
16 LtGray
dptSpace short :5 1F00 Width of space to maintain between border and
text within border

Must be 0 when BRC is a substructure of TC.

Stored in points.
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

fShadow short :1 2000 When 1, border is drawn with shadow

Must be 0 when BRC is a substructure of the TC.

fFrame short :1 4000 Don‘t reverse the border.

short :1 8000 Reserved

The size is 4 bytes

Border Code for Windows Word 95 (BRC70)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 dxpLineWidth Uns :3 00FF Width of a single line:

short
0-5 thicknesses (3/4, 1 ½, 2 ¼, 3, 4 ½, 6)
6 = dotted
7 = dashed
brcType short :2 FF00 Border type code:

0 none
1 single
2 thick
3 double
fShadow short :1 2000 When 1, border is drawn with shadow

2 2 ico short :5 00FF Color code :

0 Auto
1 Black
2 Blue
3 Cyan
4 Green
5 Magenta
6 Red
7 Yellow
8 White
9 DkBlue
10 DkCyan
11 DkGreen
12 DkMagenta
13 DkRed
14 DkYellow
15 DkGray
16 LtGray
dxpSpace short :5 1F00 Width of space to maintain between border and
text within border. Stored in points.
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Border Code for WinWord 1.0 (BRC10)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 dxpLine2Width short :3 0007 Width of second line of border in pixels

dxpSpaceBetween short :3 0038 Distance to maintain between both lines of

border in pixels

dxpLine1Width short :3 01C0 Width of first border line in pixels

dxpSpace short :5 3E00 Width of space to maintain between border and

text within border. Must be 0 when BRC is a
substructure of the TC.

fShadow short :1 4000 When 1, border is drawn with shadow. Must be 0

when BRC10 is a substructure of the TC.

fSpare short :1 8000 Reserved

The seven types of border lines that WinWord 1.0 supports are coded with different sets of
values for dxpLine1Width, dxpSpaceBetween, and dxpLine2 Width.
The border lines and their brc10 settings follow:
Line type dxpLine1Width dxpSpaceBetween dxpLine2Width

no border 0 0 0

single line border 1 0 0

two single line 1 1 1

border

fat solid border 4 0 0

thick solid border 2 0 0

dotted border 6 (special value meaning 0 0

dotted line)

hairline border 7 (special value meaning 0 0

hairline)

When the no border settings are stored in the BRC, brc.fShadow and brc.dxpSpace should
be set to 0.
cbBRC10 (count of bytes of BRC10) is 2.
Character Properties (CHP)
The CHP is never stored in Word files. It is the result of decompression operations applied to
CHPXs. For this reason no offsets are shown into the structure. It can be reconstructed at will.
The CHPX is stored in CHPX FKPS and within the STSH.
Note When a CHPX is stored in an FKP it is prefixed by a one-byte count of bytes that records
the size of the non-zero prefix of the CHPX. Since the count of bytes must begin on an even
boundary within the FKP followed by the non-zero prefix, it's guaranteed that the int and FC
fields of the CHPX are aligned on an odd-byte boundary. The best technique for reconstituting
the CHPX is to move the non-zero prefix to the beginning of a local instance of a CHPX that has
been cleared to zeros.
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Field Type Size Comments

grpfChp uint 4 Collection of the following 32 flags

fBold uns long :1 Text is bold when 1 , and not bold when 0.

fItalic uns long :1 Italic when 1, not italic when 0

fRMarkDel uns long :1 When 1, text has been deleted and will be displayed with strikethrough
when revision marked text is to be displayed

fOutline uns long :1 Outlined when 1, not outlined when 0

fFldVanish uns long :1 Used internally by Word

fSmallCaps uns long :1 Displayed with small caps when 1, no small caps when 0

fCaps uns long :1 Displayed with caps when 1, no caps when 0

fVanish uns long :1 When 1, text has ―hidden‖ format, and is not displayed unless fPagHidden
is set in the DOP

fRMark uns long :1 When 1, text is newly typed since the last time revision marks have been
accepted and will be displayed with an underline when revision marked
text is to be displayed

fSpec uns long :1 Character is a Word special character when 1, not a special character when
0

fStrike uns long :1 Displayed with strikethrough when 1, no strikethrough when 0

fObj uns long :1 Embedded object when 1, not an embedded object when 0

fShadow uns long :1 Character is drawn with a shadow when 1; drawn without shadow when 0

fLowerCase uns long :1 Character is displayed in lower case when 1. No case transformation is
performed when 0. This field may be set to 1 only when chp.fSmallCaps
is 1.

fData uns long :1 When 1, chp.fcPic points to an FFDATA, the data structure binary data
used by Word to describe a form field. The bit chp.fData may only be 1
when chp.fSpec is also 1 and the special character in the document
stream that has this property is a chPicture (0x01).

fOle2 uns long :1 When 1, chp.lTagObj specifies a particular object in the object stream
that specifies the particular OLE object in the stream that should be
displayed when the chPicture fSpec character that is tagged with the
fOle2 is encountered. The bit chp.fOle2 may only be 1 when chp.fSpec
is also 1 and the special character in the document stream that has this
property is a chPicture (0x01).

fEmboss uns long :1 Text is embossed when 1 and not embossed when 0

fImprint uns long :1 Text is engraved when 1 and not engraved when 0

fDStrike uns long :1 Displayed with double strikethrough when 1, no double strikethrough
when 0

fUsePgsuSettings uns long :1 Used internally by Word

fBoldBi uns long :1 Complex Scripts text is bold when 1

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Field Type Size Comments

fComplexScripts uns long :1 Complex Scripts text that requires special processing to display and
process.

fItalicBi uns long :1 Complex Scripts text is italics when 1

fBiDi uns long :1 Complex Scripts right-to-left text that requires special processing to
display and process (character reordering; contextual shaping; display of
combining characters and diacritics; specialized justification rules; cursor
positioning).

fIcoBi uns long :1 Used internally by Word

fNonGlyph uns long :1 Used internally by Word

fBoldOther uns long :1 Used internally by Word 97 and earlier versions

fItalicOther uns long :1 Used internally by Word 97 and earlier versions

fNoProof uns long :1 When set to 1, do not check spelling or grammar

fWebHidden uns long :1 Text should be hidden in Web View when set to 1

fFitText uns long :1 Fit text when set to 1

fCalc uns long :1 Used internally by Word

fFmtLineProp uns long :1 Used internally by Word

hps ushort 2 Font size in half points

ftc ftc 2 No longer stored

ftcAsci ftc 2 Font for ASCII text

ftcFE ftc 2 Font for East Asian text

ftcOther ftc 2 Font for non-East Asian text

ftcBi ftc 2 Font for Complex Scripts text

rgftc[iftcCompositeM ftc 8 Array of fonts

ax]
dxaSpace xa 4 Space following each character in the run expressed in twip units.

cv colorref 4 24-bit color

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Field Type Size Comments

ico short :5 Color of text for Word 97:

0 Auto
1 Black
2 Blue
3 Cyan
4 Green
5 Magenta
6 Red
7 Yellow
8 White
9 DkBlue
10 DkCyan
11 DkGreen
12 DkMagenta
13 DkRed
14 DkYellow
15 DkGray
16 LtGray
pctCharWidth ushort 2 Character scale

Lid lid 2 Language ID (calculated) (see LID table below for values)

rglid[clidChpMax] lid 6 Array of language IDs: convenient index into the next three properties.

LidDefault lid 2 Default language ID (see LID table below for values)

LidFE lid 2 East Asian Language ID (see LID table below for values)

lidBi lid 2 Complex Scripts language ID (see LID table below for values)

kcd uns char :3 Emphasis mark:

0 None
1 Dot
2 Comma
3 Circle
4 Under Dot
fUndetermine uns char :1 Character is undetermined when set to 1

iss uns char :3 Superscript/subscript indices

0 means no super/subscripting
1 means text in run is superscripted
2 means text in run is subscripted
fSpecSymbol uns char :1 Used by Word internally

idct uchar 1 Not stored in file

idctHint uchar 1 Identifier of Character type

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Field Type Size Comments

kul uchar 1 Underline code:

0 none
1 single
2 by word
3 double
4 dotted
5 hidden
6 thick
7 dash
8 dot (not used)
9 dot dash
10 dot dot dash
11 wave
20 kulDottedHeavy
23 kulDashedHeavy
25 kulDotDashHeavy
26 kul2DotDashHeavy
27 kulWaveHeavy
39 kulDashLong
43 kulWaveDouble
55 kulDashLongHeavy
hres uchar 1 Hyphenation rule

0 No hyphenation
1 Normal hyphenation
2 Add letter before hyphen
3 Change letter before hyphen
4 Delete letter before hyphen
5 Change letter after hyphen
6 Delete letter before the hyphen and change the letter preceding the
deleted character
chHres uchar 1 The character that will be used to add or change a letter when chp.ysr is
2,3, 5 or 6

hpsKern ushort 2 Kerning distance for characters in run recorded in half points

hpsPos short 2 Reserved

cvUl colorref 4 Underline color

shd shd 10 Shading

brc brc 8 Border

ibstRMark ibst 2 Index to author IDs stored in hsttbfRMark. Used when text in run was
newly typed when revision marking was enabled.

sfxtText uchar 1 Text animation:

0 no animation
1 Las Vegas lights
2 background blink
3 sparkle text
4 marching ants
5 marching red ants
6 shimmer
fDblBdr uns char :1 Used internally by Word

fBorderWS uns char :1 Used internally by Word

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Field Type Size Comments

ufel ushort 2 Collection properties represented by itypFELayout and copt (East Asian
layout properties)

itypFELayout uchar 1 Collection of the next 6 properties:

0x00 – none
0x01 – Tatenakayoko
0x02 – Warichu
0x04 – Kumimoji
0xFF – All
fTNY uns char :1 Tatenakayoko: Horizontal–in-vertical (range of text in a direction
perpendicular to the text flow) is used when set to 1

fWarichu uns char :1 Two lines in one (text in the group is displayed as two half-height lines
within a line) when set to 1

fKumimoji uns char :1 When set to 1, combine characters

fRuby uns char :1 Phonetic guide when set to 1

fLSFitText uns char :1 When set to 1, fit text

spare Uns char :3 Unused

copt uchar 1 Collection of the following 5 flags

iWarichuBracket uns char :3 Bracket character for two-lines-in-one:

0 text is not enclosed.

1 text is enclosed in parentheses.
2 text is enclosed in square brackets ([]).
3 text is enclosed in angled brackets (<>).
4 text is enclosed in braces ({}).
fWarichuNoOpenBracke uns char :1 Two-lines-in-one uses no open bracket when 1
t
fTNYCompress uns char :1 When 1, fit text in line

fTNYFetchTxm uns char :1 When 1, fetch text metrics

fCellFitText uns char :1 When 1, Fit text in cell

unused uns char :1 Not used

hpsAsci ushort 2 Font size for ASCII font

hpsFE ushort 2 Font size for East Asian text

hpsBi ushort 2 Font size for Complex Scripts text

rghps[ihpsMax] ushort 6 Array of font sizes

ftcSym ftc 2 When chp.fSpec is 1 and the character recorded for the run in the
document stream is chSymbol (0x28), chp.ftcSym identifies the font code
of the symbol font that will be used to display the symbol character
recorded in chp.xchSym

chp.ftcSym is an index into the rgffn structure.

xchSym xchar 2 When chp.fSpec==1 and the character recorded for the run in the
document stream is chSymbol (0x28), the character stored chp.xchSym
will be displayed using the font specified in chp.ftcSym
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Field Type Size Comments

hpsAsci ushort 2 Font size for ASCI font

hpsFE ushort 2 Font size for East Asian text

hpsBi ushort 2 Font size for Complex Scripts text

rghps[ihpsMax] ushort 6 Array of font sizes

fNumRunBi uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fSysVanish uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fDiacRunBi uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fBoldPresent uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fItalicPresent uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fcPic fc 4 Offset in data stream pointing to beginning of a picture when character is

a picture character (character is 0x01 and chp.fSpec is 1).

fcObj fc 4 Offset in data stream pointing to beginning of a picture when character is

an OLE1 object character (character is 0x20 and chp.fSpec is 1,
chp.fOle2 is 0).

lTagObj ulong 4 An object ID for an OLE object, only set if chp.fSpec and chp.fOle2 are
both true, and chp.fObj.

fcData fc 4 Points to location of picture data, only if chp.fSpec is true.

hsp msohsp 4 Used internally by Word

docPic ulong :16 Used internally by Word

dummy ulong :15 Used internally by Word

fDirty ulong :1 Used internally by Word

hresOld ulong :8 Hyphenation rule

0 No hyphenation
1 Normal hyphenation
2 Add letter before hyphen
3 Change letter before hyphen
4 Delete letter before hyphen
5 Change letter after hyphen
6 Delete letter before the hyphen and change the letter preceding the
deleted character
chHresOld ulong :8 The character that will be used to add or change a letter when chp.hresi
is 2,3, 5 or 6

dummy3 ulong :16 Not used

dxpKashida xa 4 Used internally by Word

dxpSpace xa 4 Used internally by Word

ibstRMarkDel ibst 2 Index to author IDs stored in hsttbfRMark. Used when text in run was
deleted when revision marking was enabled.
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Field Type Size Comments

dttmRMark dttm 4 Date/time at which this run of text was entered/modified by the author
(Only recorded when revision marking is on.)

dttmRMarkDel dttm 4 Date/time at which this run of text was deleted by the author (Only
recorded when revision marking is on.)

cHpsInc short 2 Used internally by Word

istd ushort 2 Index to character style descriptor in the stylesheet that tags this run of
text. When istd is istdNormalChar (10 decimal), characters in run are
not affected by a character style. If chp.istd contains any other value,
chpx of the specified character style are applied to CHP for this run before
any other exceptional properties are applied.

idslRMReason ushort 2 An index to strings displayed as reasons for actions taken by Word‘s
AutoFormat code

idslRMReasonDel ushort 2 An index to strings displayed as reasons for actions taken by Word‘s
AutoFormat code

cpg ushort 2 Code page of run in pre-Unicode files

iatrUndetType uns short :4 Used internally by Word

fUlGap uns short :1 Used internally by Word 8

icoHighlight uns short :5 Highlight color (see chp.ico)

fHighlight uns short :1 When 1, characters are highlighted with color specified by
chp.icoHighlight.

fScriptAnchor uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fFixedObj uns short :1 Used internally by Word

spare2 uns short :1 Not used

fNavHighlight uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fChsDiff uns short :1 Pre-Unicode files, char's char set different from FIB char set

fMacChs uns short :1 fTrue if char's are Macintosh char set

fFtcAsciSym uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fFtcReq uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fLangApplied uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fSpareLangApplied uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fForcedCvAuto uns short :1 Used internally by Word

fPropRMark uns short 2 When 1, properties have been changed with revision marking on

ibstPropRMark ibst 2 Index to author IDs stored in hsttbfRMark. Used when properties have
been changed when revision marking was enabled.

dttmPropRMark dttm 4 Date/time at which properties of this were changed for this run of text by
the author. (Only recorded when revision marking is on.)

fAnmPropRMark byte 1 Used internally by Word

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Field Type Size Comments

fConflictOrig uchar 1 When chp.wConflict!=0, this is fTrue when text is part of the original
version of text. When fFalse, text is alternative introduced by
reconciliation operation.

fConflictOtherDel uchar 1 When fConflictOtherDel==fTrue, the other side of a reconciliation

conflict causes this text to be deleted.

wConflict ushort 2 When != 0, index number that identifies all text participating in a particular
conflict incident.

IbstConflict ibst 2 Who made this change for this side of the conflict.

dttmConflict dttm 4 When the change was made.

fDispFldRMark byte 1 When 1, the number for a ListNum field is being tracked in
xstDispFldRMark. If that number is different from the current value, the
number has changed.

Only valid for ListNum fields.

ibstDispFldRMark ibst 2 Index to author IDs stored in hsttbfRMark. Used when ListNum field
numbering has been changed when revision marking was enabled.

dttmDispFldRMark dttm 4 The date for the ListNum field number change.

xstDispFldRMark xstdispfld 32 The string value of the ListNum field when revision mark tracking began.

dxtSpaceExtra x 4 Used internally by Word.

fcObjp fc 4 Offset in the data stream indicating the location of OLE object data.

dxaFitText xa 4 Fit Text Width.

lFitTextID long 4 Serialize Fit Text Areas.

lbrCRJ uchar 1 Line BReak code for xchCRJ:

0 lbrNone
1 lbrLeft
2 lbrRight
3 lbrBoth
iuhi long 4 Unknown HTML element

bTransNoProof0 uchar 1 Used internally to handle translating Word 97 lid sprms into no proofing
and Word 2000 sprms.

bTransNoProof1 uchar 1 Ued internally to handle translating Word 97 lid sprms into no proofing
and Word 2000 sprms.

rsidProp RSID 4 Save ID for last time this CHP was revised: a random number associated
with character formatting which improves the accuracy of Word‘s
document merge feature.

rsidText RSID 4 Save ID for last time this text was revised: a random number associated
with the insertion of text which improves the accuracy of Word‘s document
merging.

rsidRMDel RSID 4 Save ID for last time this revision-mark-deleted text was revised: a
random number associated with the tracked deletion of text which
improves the accuracy of Word‘s document merging.
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Field Type Size Comments

fSpecVanish uchar :1 Special hidden for leading emphasis (always hidden).

fHasOldProps uchar 1 Used for character property revision marking. The chp at the time
fHasOldProps is set to 1, the is the old chp.

pbi PBI 6 Picture bullet information

hplcnf HPL 4 Conditional character formatting for table styles. No language properties
are stored here.

ffm uchar 1 font fixup mode, for internal use only.

fSdtVanish uchar 1 Mark the character as hidden.

The standard CHP is all zeros except:

hps 20 half-points
fcPic -1
istd 10 (the standard character style)
lidDefault, lidFE 0x0400 (no proofing)
wCharScale 100
fUsePgsuSettings -1

Table of LIDs

Language ID (decimal) ID (hex)

(no proofing) 1024 400
Afrikaans 1078 436
Albanian 1052 41C
Amharic 1118 45E
Arabic (Algeria) 5121 1401
Arabic (Bahrain) 15361 3C01
Arabic (Egypt) 3073 C01
Arabic (Iraq) 2049 801
Arabic (Jordan) 11265 2C01
Arabic (Kuwait) 13313 3401
Arabic (Lebanon) 12289 3001
Arabic (Libya) 4097 1001
Arabic (Morocco) 6145 1801
Arabic (Oman) 8193 2001
Arabic (Qatar) 16385 4001
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) 1025 401
Arabic (Syria) 10241 2801
Arabic (Tunisia) 7169 1C01
Arabic (U.A.E) 14337 3801
Arabic (Yemen) 9217 2401
Armenian 1067 42B
Assamese 1101 44D
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Language ID (decimal) ID (hex)

Azeri (Cyrillic) 2092 82C
Azeri (Latin) 1068 42C
Basque 1069 42D
Belarusian 1059 423
Bengali 1093 445
Bengali (Bangladesh) 2117 845
Bulgarian 1026 402
Burmese 1109 455
Catalan 1027 403
Cherokee 1116 45C
Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) 3076 C04
Chinese (Macao S.A.R.) 5124 1404
Chinese (PRC) 2052 804
Chinese (Singapore) 4100 1004
Chinese (Taiwan) 1028 404
Croatian 1050 41A
Czech 1029 405
Danish 1030 406
Divehi 1125 465
Dutch (Belgium) 2067 813
Dutch (Netherlands) 1043 413
Edo 1126 466
English (Australia) 3081 C09
English (Belize) 10249 2809
English (Canada) 4105 1009
English (Caribbean) 9225 2409
English (Hong Kong S.A.R.) 15369 3C09
English (India) 16393 4009
English (Indonesia) 14345 3809
English (Ireland) 6153 1809
English (Jamaica) 8201 2009
English (Malaysia) 17417 4409
English (New Zealand) 5129 1409
English (Philippines) 13321 3409
English (Singapore) 18441 4809
English (South Africa) 7177 1C09
English (Trinidad and Tobago) 11273 2C09
English (U.K.) 2057 809
English (U.S.) 1033 409
English (Zimbabwe) 12297 3009
Estonian 1061 425
Faeroese 1080 438
Farsi 1065 429
Filipino 1124 464
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Language ID (decimal) ID (hex)

Finnish 1035 40B
French (Belgium) 2060 80C
French (Cameroon) 11276 2C0C
French (Canada) 3084 C0C
French (Congo (DRC)) 9228 240C
French (Cote d'Ivoire) 12300 300C
French (France) 1036 40C
French (Haiti) 15372 3C0C
French (Luxembourg) 5132 140C
French (Mali) 13324 340C
French (Monaco) 6156 180C
French (Morocco) 14348 380C
French (Reunion) 8204 200C
French (Senegal) 10252 280C
French (Switzerland) 4108 100C
French (West Indies) 7180 1C0C
Frisian (Netherlands) 1122 462
Fulfulde 1127 467
FYRO Macedonian 1071 42F
Gaelic (Ireland) 2108 83C
Gaelic (Scotland) 1084 43C
Galician 1110 456
Georgian 1079 437
German (Austria) 3079 C07
German (Germany) 1031 407
German (Liechtenstein) 5127 1407
German (Luxembourg) 4103 1007
German (Switzerland) 2055 807
Greek 1032 408
Guarani 1140 474
Gujarati 1095 447
Hausa 1128 468
Hawaiian 1141 475
Hebrew 1037 40D
Hindi 1081 439
Hungarian 1038 40E
Ibibio 1129 469
Icelandic 1039 40F
Igbo 1136 470
Indonesian 1057 421
Inuktitut 1117 45D
Italian (Italy) 1040 410
Italian (Switzerland) 2064 810
Japanese 1041 411
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Language ID (decimal) ID (hex)

Kannada 1099 44B
Kanuri 1137 471
Kashmiri 2144 860
Kashmiri (Arabic) 1120 460
Kazakh 1087 43F
Khmer 1107 453
Konkani 1111 457
Korean 1042 412
Kyrgyz 1088 440
Lao 1108 454
Latin 1142 476
Latvian 1062 426
Lithuanian 1063 427
Malay 1086 43E
Malay (Brunei Darussalam) 2110 83E
Malayalam 1100 44C
Maltese 1082 43A
Manipuri 1112 458
Maori 1153 481
Marathi 1102 44E
Mongolian 1104 450
Mongolian (Mongolian) 2128 850
Nepali 1121 461
Nepali (India) 2145 861
Norwegian (Bokmål) 1044 414
Norwegian (Nynorsk) 2068 814
Oriya 1096 448
Oromo 1138 472
Papiamentu 1145 479
Pashto 1123 463
Polish 1045 415
Portuguese (Brazil) 1046 416
Portuguese (Portugal) 2070 816
Punjabi 1094 446
Punjabi (Pakistan) 2118 846
Quechua (Bolivia) 1131 46B
Quechua (Ecuador) 2155 86B
Quechua (Peru) 3179 C6B
Rhaeto-Romanic 1047 417
Romanian (Moldova) 2072 818
Romanian (Romania) 1048 418
Russian (Moldova) 2073 819
Russian (Russia) 1049 419
Sami (Lappish) 1083 43B
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Language ID (decimal) ID (hex)

Sanskrit 1103 44F
Sepedi 1132 46C
Serbian (Cyrillic) 3098 C1A
Serbian (Latin) 2074 81A
Sindhi (Arabic) 2137 859
Sindhi (Devanagari) 1113 459
Sinhalese 1115 45B
Slovak 1051 41B
Slovenian 1060 424
Somali 1143 477
Sorbian 1070 42E
Spanish (Argentina) 11274 2C0A
Spanish (Bolivia) 16394 400A
Spanish (Chile) 13322 340A
Spanish (Colombia) 9226 240A
Spanish (Costa Rica) 5130 140A
Spanish (Dominican Republic) 7178 1C0A
Spanish (Ecuador) 12298 300A
Spanish (El Salvador) 17418 440A
Spanish (Guatemala) 4106 100A
Spanish (Honduras) 18442 480A
Spanish (Mexico) 2058 80A
Spanish (Nicaragua) 19466 4C0A
Spanish (Panama) 6154 180A
Spanish (Paraguay) 15370 3C0A
Spanish (Peru) 10250 280A
Spanish (Puerto Rico) 20490 500A
Spanish (Spain-Modern Sort) 3082 C0A
Spanish (Spain-Traditional Sort) 1034 40A
Spanish (Uruguay) 14346 380A
Spanish (Venezuela) 8202 200A
Sutu 1072 430
Swahili 1089 441
Swedish (Finland) 2077 81D
Swedish (Sweden) 1053 41D
Syriac 1114 45A
Tajik 1064 428
Tamazight 1119 45F
Tamazight (Latin) 2143 85F
Tamil 1097 449
Tatar 1092 444
Telugu 1098 44A
Thai 1054 41E
Tibetan (Bhutan) 2129 851
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Language ID (decimal) ID (hex)

Tibetan (PRC) 1105 451
Tigrigna (Eritrea) 2163 873
Tigrigna (Ethiopia) 1139 473
Tsonga 1073 431
Tswana 1074 432
Turkish 1055 41F
Turkmen 1090 442
Ukrainian 1058 422
Urdu 1056 420
Uzbek (Cyrillic) 2115 843
Uzbek (Latin) 1091 443
Venda 1075 433
Vietnamese 1066 42A
Welsh 1106 452
Xhosa 1076 434
Yi 1144 478
Yiddish 1085 43D
Yoruba 1130 46A
Zulu 1077 435
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Character Property Exceptions (CHPX)

The CHPX is stored within Character FKPs and within the STSH in STDs for paragraph style
and character style entries.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 cb byte Count of bytes of following data in CHPX

1 1 grpprl character A list of the sprms that encode the

array differences between CHP for a run of text and
the CHP generated by the paragraph and
character styles that tag the run.

Date and Time (internal date format) (DTTM)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 mint short :6 003F minutes (0-59)

hr short :5 07C0 hours (0-23)

dom short :5 F800 days of month (1-31)

2 2 mon short :4 000F months (1-12)

yr short :9 1FF0 years (1900-2411)-1900

wdy short :3 E000 weekday

Sunday=0
Monday=1
Tuesday=2
Wednesday=3
Thursday=4
Friday=5
Saturday=6

cbDTTM (count of bytes of DTTM) is 4.

Drop Cap Specifier(DCS)
Default
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield value Comment

0 0 fdct short :3 0007 0 Drop cap type

0 no drop cap
1 normal drop cap
2 drop cap in margin
short :5 00F8 0 Count of lines to drop

1 1 short :8 Reserved

cbDCS (count of bytes of DCS) is 2.

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Document Properties (DOP)

Each version of Word, the DOP gets a little bit larger. Shown below are four different versions
of the DOP: for nFib values < 103, for nFib values between 103 and 105, for nFib values
greater than 105 and less than 217, and for nFib values greater than or equal to 217. Word
97 and later versions write files with nFib>105. Word 6.0 for the Macintosh writes files with
nFib==103 or nFib==104. The compatibility options (copts) section was grown (to add
more compatibility options in the Tools/Options/Compatibility dialog) and copied to the end of
the DOP, so for files with nFib>=103, the first copts section should be ignored (and the
analogous fields in the new copts section used instead), whereas files with nFib<103 will
have DOP‘s without the new copts section. See below for the addition.
Default
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield value comment

0 0 fFacingPages short :1 0001 0 1 when facing pages should be printed

fWidowControl short :1 0002 1 1 when widow control is in effect; 0

when widow control disabled

fPMHMainDoc short :1 0004 0 1 when doc is a main doc for Print Merge
Helper, 0 when not; default=0

grfSuppression short :2 0018 0 Default line suppression storage; 0=

form letter line suppression; 1= no line
suppression; default=0. No longer
used.

Fpc short :2 0060 1 Footnote position code

0 print as endnotes
1 print at bottom of page
2 print immediately beneath text

short :1 0080 0 Unused

1 1 grpfIhdt short :8 FF00 0 No longer used.

2 2 rncFtn short :2 0003 0 Restart index for footnotes

0 don‘t restart note numbering
1 restart for each section
2 restart for each page

nFtn short :14 FFFC 1 Initial footnote number for document

4 4 fOutlineDirtySa short :1 0001 When 1, indicates that information in

ve the hplcpad should be refreshed since
outline has been dirtied

short :7 00FE Reserved

5 5 fOnlyMacPics short :1 0100 When 1, Word believes all pictures

recorded in the document were created
on a Macintosh

fOnlyWinPics short :1 0200 When 1, Word believes all pictures

recorded in the document were created
in Windows

fLabelDoc short :1 0400 When 1, document was created as a

print merge labels document
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Default
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield value comment

fHyphCapitals short :1 0800 When 1, Word is allowed to hyphenate

words that are capitalized. When 0,
capitalized may not be hyphenated

fAutoHyphen short :1 1000 When 1, Word will hyphenate newly

typed text as a background task

fFormNoFields short :1 2000

fLinkStyles short :1 4000 When 1, Word will merge styles from its
template

fRevMarking short :1 8000 When 1, Word will mark revisions as the

document is edited

6 6 fBackup short :1 0001 When 1, always make backup when

document saved

fExactCWords short :1 0002 When 1, the results of the last Word

Count execution (as recorded in several
DOP fields) are still exactly correct

fPagHidden short :1 0004 When 1, hidden document contents are

displayed

fPagResults short :1 0008 When 1, field results are displayed,

when 0 field codes are displayed

fLockAtn short :1 0010 When 1, annotations are locked for

editing

fMirrorMargins short :1 0020 When 1, swap margins on left/right

pages

short :1 Reserved

fDfltTrueType short :1 0080 When 1, use TrueType fonts by default

(flag obeyed only when doc was created
by WinWord 2.x)

7 7 fPagSuppressTop short :1 0100 When 1, file created with

Spacing SUPPRESSTOPSPACING=YES in
WIN.INI. (flag obeyed only when doc
was created by WinWord 2.x).

fProtEnabled short :1 0200 When 1, document is protected from

edit operations

fDispFormFldSel short :1 0400 When 1, restrict selections to occur only

within form fields

fRMView short :1 0800 When 1, show revision markings on

screen

fRMPrint short :1 1000 When 1, print revision marks when

document is printed

short :1 Reserved
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Default
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield value comment

fLockRev short :1 4000 When 1, the current revision marking

state is locked

fEmbedFonts short :1 8000 When 1, document contains embedded

TrueType fonts

8 8 fNoTabForInd short :1 0001 Compatibility option: when 1, don‘t add

automatic tab stops for hanging indent

fNoSpaceRaiseLo :1 0002 Compatibility option: when 1, don‘t add

wer extra space for raised or lowered
characters

fSuppressSpbfAf :1 0004 Compatibility option: when 1, suppress

terPageBreak: the paragraph Space Before and Space
After options after a page break

fWrapTrailSpace :1 0008 Compatibility option: when 1, wrap

s trailing spaces at the end of a line to the
next line

fMapPrintTextCo :1 0010 Compatibility option: when 1, print

lor colors as black on non-color printers

fNoColumnBalanc :1 0020 Compatibility option: when 1, don‘t

e balance columns for Continuous Section
starts

fConvMailMergeE :1 0040
sc
fSupressTopSpac :1 0080 Compatibility option: when 1, suppress
ing extra line spacing at top of page

fOrigWordTableR :1 0100 Compatibility option: when 1, combine

ules table borders like Word 5.x for the
Macintosh

fTransparentMet :1 0200 Compatibility option: when 1, don‘t

afiles blank area between metafile pictures

fShowBreaksInFr :1 0400 Compatibility option: when 1, show

ames hard page or column breaks in frames

fSwapBordersFac :1 0800 Compatibility option: when 1, swap left

ingPgs and right pages on odd facing pages

F000 Reserved

10 A dxaTab uns 720 twips Default tab width

short

12 C wSpare uns Reserved

short

14 E dxaHotZ uns Width of hyphenation hot zone

short measured in twips

16 10 cConsecHypLim uns Number of lines allowed to have

short consecutive hyphens
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Default
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield value comment

18 12 wSpare2 uns Reserved

short

20 14 dttmCreated DTTM Date and time document was created

24 18 dttmRevised DTTM Date and time document was last

revised

28 1C dttmLastPrint DTTM Date and time document was last

printed

32 20 nRevision int Number of times document has been

revised since its creation

34 22 tmEdited long Time document was last edited

38 26 cWords long Count of words tallied by last Word

Count execution

42 2A cCh long Count of characters tallied by last Word

Count execution

46 2E cPg int Count of pages tallied by last Word

Count execution

48 30 cParas long Count of paragraphs tallied by last Word

Count execution

52 34 rncEdn short :2 0003 Restart endnote number code

0 don‘t restart endnote numbering
1 restart for each section
2 restart for each page

nEdn short :14 FFFC Beginning endnote number

54 36 Epc short :2 0003 Endnote position code

0 display endnotes at end of section
3 display endnotes at end of document

nfcFtnRef short :4 003C Number format code for auto footnotes.

Use the Number Format Table below.

Note: only the first 16 values in the

table can be used.

nfcEdnRef short :4 03C0 Number format code for auto endnotes.

Use the Number Format Table below.

Note: only the first 16 values in the

table can be used.

fPrintFormData short :1 0400 Only print data inside of form fields

fSaveFormData short :1 0800 Only save document data that is inside

of a form field

fShadeFormData short :1 1000 Shade form fields

:2 6000 Reserved
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Default
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield value comment

fWCFtnEdn short :1 8000 When 1, include footnotes and

endnotes in word count

56 38 cLines long Count of lines tallied by last Word Count

operation

60 3C cWordsFtnEnd long Count of words in footnotes and

endnotes tallied by last word count
operation

64 40 cChFtnEdn long Count of characters in footnotes and

endnotes tallied by last word count
operation

68 44 cPgFtnEdn short Count of pages in footnotes and

endnotes tallied by last word count
operation

70 46 cParasFtnEdn long Count of paragraphs in footnotes and

endnotes tallied by last word count
operation

74 4A cLinesFtnEdn long Count of paragraphs in footnotes and

endnotes tallied by last word count
operation

78 4E lKeyProtDoc long Document protection password key,

only valid if dop.fProtEnabled,
dop.fLockAtn or dop.fLockRev is 1

82 52 wvkSaved short :3 0007 Document view kind

0 Normal view
1 Outline view
2 Page View

wScaleSaved short :9 0FF8 Zoom percentage

zkSaved short :2 3000 Zoom type

0 None
1 Full page
2 Page width

fRotateFontW6 short :1 4000 This is a vertical document (Word 95

and Word 6.0 for Windows only)

iGutterPos short :1 8000 Gutter position for this doc: 0 => side;
1 => top

In a file with nFib < 103—for example, documents created with Word 6.0 for Windows—the
DOP would end here. This DOP would have a cbDOP of 84, and a cwDOP of 42.
Files with nFib >= 103, the compatibility options (copts) section at offset 8 was copied here
and expanded. Options marked ―(see above)‖ hold the same value that the same-named field
in the old copts section above had in files with nFib < 103.
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

84 54 fNoTabForInd uns :1 00000001 (see above)

long

fNoSpaceRaiseLower :1 00000002 (see above)

fSupressSpbfAfterPageBreak :1 00000004 (see above)

fWrapTrailSpaces :1 00000008 (see above)

fMapPrintTextColor :1 00000010 (see above)

fNoColumnBalance :1 00000020 (see above)

fConvMailMergeEsc :1 00000040 (see above)

fSupressTopSpacing :1 00000080 (see above)

fOrigWordTableRules :1 00000100 (see above)

fTransparentMetafiles :1 00000200 (see above)

fShowBreaksInFrames :1 00000400 (see above)

fSwapBordersFacingPgs :1 00000800 (see above)

:4 0000F000 (reserved)

fSuppressTopSpacingMac5 :1 00010000 Suppress extra line spacing at top

of page like Word 5.x for the
Macintosh

fTruncDxaExpand :1 00020000 Expand/Condense by whole

number of points

fPrintBodyBeforeHdr :1 00040000 Print body text before

header/footer

fNoLeading :1 00080000 Don‘t add leading (extra space)

between rows of text

:1 00100000 (reserved)

fMWSmallCaps :1 00200000 Use larger small caps like Word 5.x

for the Macintosh

:10 FFC00000 (reserved)

For this expanded DOP, cbDOP=88 and cwDOP=44.

For files with nFib=106 (Word 97), the DOP has a number of additional fields:
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

88 58 adt short Autoformat document type: 0 for

normal. 1 for letter, and 2 for email.

90 5A doptypography DOPTYPOGRAPHY See DOPTYPOGRAPHY

400 190 dogrid DOGRID See DOGRID

410 19A reserved short :1 0001 Always set to zero when writing
files
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

lvl short :4 001E Which outline levels are showing in

outline view (0 => heading 1 only,
4 => headings 1 through 5, 9 =>
all levels showing)

fGramAllDone short :1 0020 Document has been completely

grammar checked

fGramAllClean short :1 0040 No grammar errors exist in

document

fSubsetFonts short :1 0080 If you are doing font embedding,

you should only embed the
characters in the font that are used
in the document

fHideLastVersion short :1 0100 Hide the version created for auto

version

fHtmlDoc short :1 0200 This file is based upon an HTML file

reserved short :1 0400 Always set to zero when writing

files

fSnapBorder short :1 0800 Snap table and page borders to

page border

fIncludeHeader short :1 1000 Place header inside page border

fIncludeFooter short :1 2000 Place footer inside page border

fForcePageSizePag short :1 4000 Are we in online view

fMinFontSizePag short :1 8000 Are we auto-promoting fonts to >=

hpsZoonFontPag?

412 19C fHaveVersions short :1 0001 Versioning is turned on

fAutoVersion short :1 0002 Auto versioning is enabled

reserved short :14 FFFC Always set to zero when writing

files

414 19E asumyi ASUMYI Auto summary info

426 1AA cChWS long Count of characters with spaces

430 1AE cChWSFtnEdn long Count of characters with spaces in

footnotes and endnotes

434 1B2 grfDocEvents long

438 1B6 fVirusPrompted long :1 0001 Have we prompted for virus

protection on this document?

fVirusLoadSafe long :1 0002 If prompted, load safely for this

document?

KeyVirusSession30 long :30 FFFC Random session key to sign above

bits for a Word session

442 1BA Spare 30 bytes Spare

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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

472 1D8 reserved long Always set to zero when writing

files

476 1DC reserved long Always set to zero when writing

files

480 1E0 cDBC long Count of double byte characters

484 1E4 cDBCFtnEdn long Count of double byte characters in

footnotes and endnotes

488 1E8 reserved long Always set to zero when writing

files

492 1EC nfcFtnRef short Number format code for auto

footnote references (use the
Number Format Table below)

494 1EE nfcEdnRef short Number format code for auto

endnote references (use the
Number Format Table below)

496 1F0 hpsZoonFontPag short Minimum font size if

fMinFontSizePag is true

498 1F2 dywDispPag short Height of the window in online view

during last repagination

For this expanded DOP, cbDOP=88 and cwDOP=44.

For files with nFib>217 (Word 2000, 2002, and 2003) the following was added:
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

500 1F4 ilvlLastBulletMain uchar 1 Used internally by Word

501 1F5 ilvlLastNumberMain uchar 1 Used internally by Word

502 1F6 istdClickTypePara ushort 2 Default paragraph style for click

and type

504 1F8 fLADAllDone uns :1 00000001 When set to 1, language of all

short text in doc has been
auto-detected

504 1F8 fEnvelopeVis uns :1 00000002 When set to 1, envelope is

short visible.

504 1F8 fMaybeTentativeListInDoc uns :1 00000004 When set to 1, doc may have a
short tentative list in it

504 1F8 fMaybeFitText uns :1 00000006 When set to 1, doc may have fit
short text

504 1F8 Empty uns :5 000001F2 Web options begin.

short

504 1F8 fRelyOnCSS_WebOpt uns :1 00000200 When set to 1, rely on CSS for
short formatting
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

504 1F8 fRelyOnVML_WebOpt uns :1 00000400 When set to 1, Rely on VML for
short displaying graphics in browsers

504 1F8 fAllowPNG_WebOpt uns :1 00000800 When set to 1, allow PNG as an

short output format for graphics

504 1F8 screenSize_WebOpt uns :4 0000F000 Target monitor screen size

short

506 1FA fOrganizeInFolder_WebOpt uns :1 00000001 When set to 1, organize

short supporting files in a folder

506 1FA fUseLongFileNames_WebOpt uns :1 00000002 Use long file names for
short supporting files

506 1FA iPixelsPerInch_WebOpt uns :10 00000FFC Target monitor resolution in

short pixels per inch

506 1FA fWebOptionsInit uns :1 00001000 When set to 1, the web options
short have been filled in

506 1FA fMaybeFEL uns :1 00002000 When set to 1, the document

short may have East Asian layouts

506 1FA fCharLineUnits uns :1 00004000 When set to 1, there may be

short character unit indents or line
unit

506 1FA fMaybeRTLTables uns :1 00008000 When set to 1, there may be

short RTL Tables in this document

508 1FC fNoTabForInd uns :1 00000001 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don‘t add automatic tab
stop for hanging indent

fNoSpaceRaiseLower uns :1 00000002 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don't add extra space for
raised/lowered characters

fSuppressSpBfAfterPgBrk uns :1 00000004 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, suppress Space Before
after a hard page or column
break

fWrapTrailSpaces uns :1 00000008 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, wrap trailing spaces to the
next line

fMapPrintTextColor uns :1 00000010 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, print colors as black on
non-color printer

fNoColumnBalance uns :1 00000020 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don't balance columns for
continuous section starts

fConvMailMergeEsc uns :1 00000040 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, treat \" as "" in mail merge
data sources
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

fSuppressTopSpacing uns :1 00000080 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, suppress extra line
spacing at top of page.

fOrigWordTableRules uns :1 00000100 Compatibility option:

long compatibility option: when 1,
combine table borders like
Word 5.x for the Macintosh

fTransparentMetafiles uns :1 00000200 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don't blank the area
behind metafile pictures

fShowBreaksInFrames uns :1 00000400 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, show hard page or column
breaks in frames

fSwapBordersFacingPgs uns :1 00000800 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, swap left and right borders
n odd facing pages

fLeaveBackslashAlone uns :1 00001000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, do not convert backslash
characters into yen signs

fExpShRtn uns :1 00002000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, expand character spaces
on the line ending
SHIFT+RETURN

fDntULTrlSpc uns :1 00004000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don‘t underline trailing
spaces

fDntBlnSbDbWid uns :1 00008000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don't balance SBCS and
DBCS characters

fSuppressTopSpacingMac5 uns :1 00010000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, suppress extra line
spacing at the top of the page
like Word 5.x for the Macintosh

fTruncDxaExpand uns :1 00020000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, expand/condense by
whole number of points

fPrintBodyBeforeHdr uns :1 00040000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, print body text before
header/footer

fNoExtLeading uns :1 00080000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don't add leading space
between rows of text

fMakeSpaceForUL uns :1 00100000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, add space for underlines.
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

fMWSmallCaps uns :1 00200000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, use larger small caps like
Word 5.x for the Macintosh

f2ptExtLeadingOnly uns :1 00400000 Compatibility option: suppress

long extra line spacing like
WordPerfect

fTruncFontHeight uns :1 00800000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, truncate font height

fSubOnSize uns :1 01000000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, substitute fonts based on
size.

fLineWrapLikeWord6 uns :1 02000000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, lines wrap like Word 6.0

fWW6BorderRules uns :1 04000000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, use Word 6.0/95/97
border rules.

fExactOnTop uns :1 08000000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don't center "exact line
height" lines

fExtraAfter uns :1 10000000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, suppress extra line
spacing at bottom of page

fWPSpace uns :1 20000000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, set the width of a space
like WordPerfect 5

fWPJust uns :1 40000000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, do full justification like
WordPerfect 6.x

fPrintMet uns :1 80000000 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, use printer metrics to lay
out the document

512 200 fSpLayoutLikeWW8 uns :1 00000001 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, lay AutoShapes like Word
97

fFtnLayoutLikeWW8 uns :1 00000002 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, lay footnotes like Word
6.x/95/97.

fDontUseHTMLParagraphAutoSpacing uns :1 00000004 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don't use HTML paragraph
auto spacing

fDontAdjustLineHeightInTable uns :1 00000008 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, don't adjust line height in
tables
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

fForgetLastTabAlign uns :1 00000010 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, forget last tab alignment

fUseAutospaceForFullWidthAlpha uns :1 00000020 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, use auto space like Word
95

fAlignTablesRowByRow uns :1 00000040 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, align table rows
independently

fLayoutRawTableWidth uns :1 00000080 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, lay out tables with raw
width

fLayoutTableRowsApart uns :1 00000100 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, allow table rows to lay out
apart

fUseWord97LineBreakingRules uns :1 00000200 Compatibility option: when set

long to 1, use Word 97 line breaking
rules for East Asian text

fDontBreakWrappedTables uns :1 00000400 Compatibility option: Do not

long break wrapped tables across
pages.

fDontSnapToGridInCell uns :1 00000800 Compatibility option: Do not

long snap text to grid while in a table
with inline objects.

fDontAllowFieldEndSelect uns :1 00001000 Compatibility option: Select the

long entire field with the first or last
character

fApplyBreakingRules uns :1 00002000 Compatibility option: Apply

long breaking rules

fDontWrapTextWithPunct uns :1 00004000 Compatibility option: Do not

long allow hanging punctuation with
character grid

fDontUseAsianBreakRules uns :1 00008000 Compatibility option: Do not

long use Asian break rules for line
breaks with character grid.
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

fUseWord2002TableStyleRules uns :1 00010000 Compatibility option: Use the

long Word 2002 table style rules.
Word 2002 places the top
border of a column under the
heading row, rather than above
it as Word 2003 does.

Word 2003 applies the top

border of a column in a more
intuitive place when there is a
header row in the table. This
new behavior also fixes an issue
with shading not displaying
correctly for cells using
conditional formatting.

fGrowAutofit uns :1 00020000 Compatibility option: Allow

long tables set to ―autofit to
contents‖ to extend into the
margins when in Print Layout.

Word 2003 does not allow this

by default.

empty uns :14 FFFC0000 Not used

long

516 204 empty uns :32 Not used

long

520 208 empty uns :32 Not used

long

524 20C empty uns :32 Not used

long

528 210 empty uns :32 Not used

long

532 214 empty uns :32 Not used

long

536 218 empty uns :31 Not used

long

private uns :1 Not used

long

540 21C verCompatPreW10 uns :16 0000FFFF HTML I/O compatibility level
long

fNoMargPgvwSaved uns :1 00010000 Page view option

long

fNoMargPgvwPag uns :1 00020000 Page view option

long

fWebViewPag uns :1 00040000 Web View option

long
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

fSeeDrawingsPag uns :1 00080000

long

fBulletProofed uns :1 00100000 this doc was produced by the

long document BulletProofer

fCorrupted uns :1 00200000 this doc was doctored by the

long Document Corrupter

fSaveUim uns :1 00400000 Save option: Embed linguistic in

long the doc

fFilterPrivacy uns :1 00800000 Save option: Remove personal

long information on save

fInFReplaceNoRM uns :1 01000000 we are under FReplace (and

long not just FReplaceRM)

fSeenRepairs uns :1 02000000 The user has seen the repairs

long made to the document

fHasXML uns :1 04000000 XML: The document has XML

long

fSeeScriptAnchorsPag uns :1 08000000

long

fValidateXML uns :1 10000000 XML option: Validate XML on

long save

fSaveIfInvalidXML uns :1 20000000 XML option: Save the document

long even if the XML is invalid

fShowXMLErrors uns :1 40000000 XML option: Show any errors in

long the XML

fAlwaysMergeEmptyNamespace uns :1 80000000 we imported an XML file that

long had no namespace, so we have
elements with no namespace
and no schema

544 220 cpMaxListCacheMainDoc CP

(long)

548 224 fDoNotEmbedSystemFont uns :1 0001 Do not embed system fonts in

short this document

fWordCompat uns :1 0002 see fWord97Compat

short

fLiveRecover uns :1 0004

short

fEmbedFactoids uns :1 0008 Embed smart tags in the

short document

fFactoidXML uns :1 0010 Save smart tags as XML

short properties

fFactoidAllDone uns :1 0020 Done processing smart tags

short
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

fFolioPrint uns :1 0040 Print option: Book fold

short

fReverseFolio uns :1 0080 Print option: Reverse book fold

short

iTextLineEnding uns :3 0700

short

fHideFcc uns :1 0800 Do not keep track of formatting

short

fAcetateShowMarkup uns :1 1000 Track changes: show markup

short

fAcetateShowAtn uns :1 2000 Track changes: show

short annotations

fAcetateShowInsDel uns :1 4000 Track changes: show insertions

short and deletions

fAcetateShowProps uns :1 8000 Track changes: show

short formatting

550 226 istdTableDflt uns :16 Default table style for the
long document

verCompat Uns :16 Internal: Version compatibility

long for save

554 22A grfFmtFilter Uns Internal: filter state for the

short Styles and Formatting Pane.

556 22C iFolioPages short Book fold printing: sheets per

booklet

558 22E cpgText CPG

(Uns
short)

560 230 cpMinRMText CP Revision mark CP info

(long)

564 234 cpMinRMFtn CP Revision mark CP info

(long)

568 238 cpMinRMHdd CP Revision mark CP info

(long)

572 23C cpMinRMAtn CP Revision mark CP info

(long)

576 240 cpMinRMEdn CP Revision mark CP info

(long)

580 244 cpMinRMTxbx CP Revision mark CP info

(long)

584 248 cpMinRMHdrTxbx CP Revision mark CP info

(long)
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

588 24C rsidRoot RSID

592 250 fTreatLockAtnAsReadOnly uns :1 00000001 Document Protection: Treat

long lock for annotations as Read
Only

fStyleLock uns :1 00000002 Document Protection: Style

long lockdown is turned on

fAutoFmtOverride uns :1 00000004 Document Protection: Allow

long AutoFormat to override style
lockdown

fRemoveWordML uns :1 00000008 XML Option: Remove Word XML

long when saving; save only
non-Word XML data.

fApplyCustomXForm uns :1 00000010 XML Option: Apply custom

long transform on Save

fStyleLockEnforced uns :1 00000020 Document Protection: Style

long lockdown is enforced

fFakeLockAtn uns :1 00000040 Document Protection: Simulate

long locked for annotations in older
version when a document has
style protection

fIgnoreMixedContent uns :1 00000080 XML Option: Ignore mixed

long content

fShowPlaceholderText uns :1 00000100 XML Option: Show placeholder

long text for all empty XML elements

grf uns :23 FFFFFE00

long

596 254 fReadingModeInkLockDown uns :1 0001 Reading mode: ink lock down
short

fAcetateShowInkAtn uns :1 0002 Track changes: Show ink

short annotations

fFilterDttm uns :1 0004 Filter date and time

short

fEnforceDocProt uns :1 0008 Enforce document protection

short

iDocProtCur uns :3 0070 Doc protection level:

short
0 Protect for track changes
1 Comment protection
2 Form protection
3 Read Only
fDispBkSpSaved uns :1 0080
short
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

fSpare uns :8 FF00 Not used

short

598 256 dxaPageLock XA Reading Layout page size

lockdown

600 258 dyaPageLock YA Reading Layout page size

lockdown

602 25A pctFontLock int Reading Layout font lockdown

606 25E grfitbid uchar

607 25F uchar :8 Not used

608 260 ilfoMacAtCleanup ushort Number of LFOs when

CleanupLists last attempted
cleaning

For this expanded DOP, the size is 610 bytes.

Summary of nFib values:
WinWord 1.0 = 33
WinWord 2.0 = 45
WinWord 6.0c for 16bit = 101
Word 6/32 bit = 104
Word 95 = 104
Word 97 = 193
Word 2000 = 217
Word 2002 = 257
Word 2003 = 268
Word 2007 = 274
Number Format Table
nfc value Numbering scheme
0 Arabic (1, 2, 3)
1 Uppercase Roman numeral (I, II, III)
2 Lowercase Roman numeral (i, ii, iii)
3 Uppercase letter (A, B, C)
4 Lowercase letter (a, b, c)
5 Ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
6 Cardinal text number (One, Two Three)
7 Ordinal text number (First, Second, Third)
10 Kanji numbering without the digit character (dbnum1).
11 Kanji numbering with the digit character (dbnum2).
12 46 phonetic Katakana characters in "aiueo" order (aiueo).
13 46 phonetic katakana characters in "iroha" order (iroha).
14 Double Byte character
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nfc value Numbering scheme

15 Single Byte character
16 Kanji numbering 3 (dbnum3).
17 Kanji numbering 4 (dbnum4).
18 Circle numbering (circlenum).
19 Double-byte Arabic numbering
20 46 phonetic double-byte Katakana characters (*aiueo*dbchar).
21 46 phonetic double-byte katakana characters (*iroha*dbchar).
22 Arabic with leading zero (01, 02, 03, ..., 10, 11)
23 Bullet (no number at all)
24 Korean numbering 2 (ganada).
25 Korean numbering 1 (chosung).
26 Chinese numbering 1 (gb1).
27 Chinese numbering 2 (gb2).
28 Chinese numbering 3 (gb3).
29 Chinese numbering 4 (gb4).
30 Chinese Zodiac numbering 1
31 Chinese Zodiac numbering 2
32 Chinese Zodiac numbering 3
33 Taiwanese double-byte numbering 1
34 Taiwanese double-byte numbering 2
35 Taiwanese double-byte numbering 3
36 Taiwanese double-byte numbering 4
37 Chinese double-byte numbering 1
38 Chinese double-byte numbering 2
39 Chinese double-byte numbering 3
40 Chinese double-byte numbering 4
41 Korean double-byte numbering 1
42 Korean double-byte numbering 2
43 Korean double-byte numbering 3
44 Korean double-byte numbering 4
45 Hebrew non-standard decimal
46 Arabic Alif Ba Tah
47 Hebrew Biblical standard
48 Arabic Abjad style
49 Hindi vowels
50 Hindi consonants
51 Hindi numbers
52 Hindi descriptive (cardinals)
53 Thai letters
54 Thai numbers
55 Thai descriptive (cardinals
56 Vietnamese descriptive (cardinals)
57 Page Number format - # -
58 Lower case Russian alphabet
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nfc value Numbering scheme

59 Upper case Russian alphabet

Drawing Object Grid (DOGRID)

The drawing object grid is East Asian only, and it sets up a grid in which East Asian characters
are displayed (one character per grid square).
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 xaGrid short x-coordinate of the upper left-hand corner of the grid

2 2 yaGrid short y-coordinate of the upper left-hand corner of the grid

4 4 dxaGrid short Width of each grid square

6 6 dyaGrid short Height of each grid square

8 8 dyGridDisplay short :7 007F The number of grid squares (in the y direction) between
each gridline drawn on the screen. 0 means don‘t display
any gridlines in the y direction.

fTurnItOff short :1 0080 Suppress display of gridlines

dxGridDisplay short :7 7F00 The number of grid squares (in the x direction) between
each gridline drawn on the screen. 0 means don‘t display
any gridlines in the y direction.

fFollowMargin short :1 8000 If true, the grid will start at the left and top margins and
s ignore xaGrid and yaGrid

cbDOGRID (count of bytes of DOGRID) is 10 bytes (decimal), A bytes (hex).

Document Typography Info (DOPTYPOGRAPHY)
These options are East Asian only, and are accessible through the Typography tab of the
Tools/Options dialog.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 fKerningPunct short :1 00000001 True if we‘re kerning punctuation

iJustification short :2 00000006 Kinsoku method of justification:

0 = always expand
1 = compress punctuation
2 = compress punctuation and kana

iLevelOfKinsoku short :2 00000018 Level of Kinsoku:

0 = Level 1
1 = Level 2
2 = Custom

f2on1 short :1 00000020 2-page-on-1 feature is turned on

fOldDefineLineBasedOnGr short :1 5F Old East Asian feature

id
iCustomKsu short :3 380 Custom Kinsoku

fJapaneseUseLevel2 short :1 400 When set to 1, use strict (level 2) Kinsoku

rules

reserved short :5 F800 Reserved

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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

2 2 cchFollowingPunct short Length of rgxchFPunct

4 4 cchLeadingPunct short Length of rgxchLPunct

6 6 rgxchFPunct XCHAR Array of characters that should never

[101] appear at the start of a line

20 D0 rgxchLPunct XCHAR Array of characters that should never

8 [51] appear at the end of a line

cbDOPTYPOGRAPHY (count of bytes of DOPTYPOGRAPHY) is 310 bytes (decimal), 136 (hex).

Field Descriptor (FLD)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 ch char :5 1F Type of field boundary the FLD describes:

19 field begin mark
20 field separator mark
21 field end mark

char :3 E0 Reserved

Variant used when fld.ch == 19 (field begin mark)

1 1 flt char Field type (see flt table below)

Variant used when fld.ch == 21 (field end mark)

1 1 fDiffer char :1 01 Ignored for saved file

fZombieEmbed char :1 02 ==1 when result still believes this field is an EMBED or
LINK field

fResultDirty char :1 04 ==1 when user has edited or formatted the result. == 0
otherwise.

fResultEdited char :1 08 ==1 when user has inserted text into or deleted text
from the result

fLocked char :1 10 ==1 when field is locked from recalculation

fPrivateResult char :1 20 ==1 whenever the result of the field is never to be

shown

fNested char :1 40 ==1 when field is nested within another field

fHasSep char :1 80 ==1 when field has a field separator

flt value live/dead Field type

1 Unknown keyword
2 live Possible bookmark (syntax matches bookmark name)
3 live Bookmark reference
4 dead Index entry
5 live Footnote reference
6 live Set command (for Print Merge)
7 live If command (for Print Merge)
8 live Create index
9 dead Table of contents entry
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flt value live/dead Field type

10 live Style reference
11 dead Document reference
12 live Sequence mark
13 live Create table-of-contents
14 live Quote Info variable
15 live Quote Title variable
16 live Quote Subject variable
17 live Quote Author variable
18 live Quote Keywords variable
19 live Quote Comments variable
20 live Quote Last Revised By variable
21 live Quote Creation Date variable
22 live Quote Revision Date variable
23 live Quote Print Date variable
24 live Quote Revision Number variable
25 live Quote Edit Time variable
26 live Quote Number of Pages variable
27 live Quote Number of Words variable
28 live Quote Number of Characters variable
29 live Quote File Name variable
30 live Quote Document Template Name variable
31 live Quote Current Date variable
32 live Quote Current Time variable
33 live Quote Current Page variable
34 live Evaluate expression
35 live Insert literal text
36 live Include command (Print Merge)
37 live Page reference
38 live Ask command (Print Merge)
39 live Fill-in command to display prompt (Print Merge)
40 live Data command (Print Merge)
41 live Next command (Print Merge)
42 live NextIf command (Print Merge)
43 live SkipIf (Print Merge)
44 live Inserts number of current Print Merge record
45 live DDE reference
46 live DDE automatic reference
47 live Inserts Glossary Entry
48 live Sends characters to printer without translation
49 live Formula definition
50 live Goto Button
51 live Macro Button
52 live Insert auto numbering field in outline format
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flt value live/dead Field type

53 live Insert auto numbering field in legal format
54 live Insert auto numbering field in Arabic number format
55 live Reads a TIFF file
56 live Link
57 live Symbol
58 live Embedded Object
59 live Merge fields
60 live User Name
61 live User Initial
62 live User Address
63 live Bar code
64 live Document variable
65 live Section
66 live Section pages
67 live Include Picture
68 live Include Text
69 live File Size
70 live Form Text Box
71 live Form Check Box
72 live Note Reference
73 live Create Table of Authorities
74 dead Mark Table of Authorities Entry
75 live Merge record sequence number
76 either Macro
77 dead Private
78 live Insert Database
79 live Autotext
80 live Compare two values
81 live Plug-in module private
82 live Subscriber
83 live Form List Box
84 live Advance
85 live Document property
86 live
87 live OCX
88 live Hyperlink
89 live AutoTextList
90 live List element
91 live HTML control
92 live Bidi Outline
93 live Address Block
94 live Greeting Line
95 live Pseudo-inline shape
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Since dead fields have no entry in the plcffld, the string in the field code must be used to
determine the field type. All versions of Word ‘97 use English field code strings, except French,
German, and Spanish versions of Word. The strings for all languages for all possible dead fields
are listed below.
flt value English string French string German string Spanish string Field type

4 XE EX XE E Index entry

9 TC TE INHALT TC Table of contents entry

11 RD RD RD RD Document reference

74 TA TA TA TA Table of authorities entry

76 Macro

77 PRIVATE PRIVE PRIVATE PRIVATESPA Private

File Shape Address (FSPA)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 spid long Shape Identifier. Used in conjunction with the

office art data (found via fcDggInfo in the FIB) to
find the actual data for this shape.

4 4 xaLeft xa Left of rectangle enclosing shape relative to the

origin of the shape

8 8 yaTop ya Top of rectangle enclosing shape relative to the

origin of the shape

12 C xaRight xa Right of rectangle enclosing shape relative to the

origin of the shape

16 10 yaBottom ya Bottom of the rectangle enclosing shape relative to

the origin of the shape

20 14 fHdr uns :1 0001 1 in the undo doc when shape is from the header
short doc, 0 otherwise (undefined when not in the undo
doc)

bx uns :2 0006 X position of shape relative to anchor CP

short 0 relative to page margin
1 relative to top of page
2 relative to text (column for horizontal text;
paragraph for vertical text)
3 reserved for future use

by uns :2 0018 Y position of shape relative to anchor CP

short 0 relative to page margin
1 relative to top of page
2 relative to text (paragraph for horizontal text;
column for vertical text)
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

wr uns :4 01E0 Text wrapping mode

short 0 like 2, but doesn‘t require absolute object
1 no text next to shape
2 wrap around absolute object
3 wrap as if no object present
4 wrap tightly around object
5 wrap tightly, but allow holes
6-15 reserved for future use

wrk uns :4 1E00 Text wrapping mode type (valid only for wrapping
short modes 2 and 4
0 wrap both sides
1 wrap only on left
2 wrap only on right
3 wrap only on largest side

fRcaSimple uns :1 2000 When set, temporarily overrides bx, by, forcing the
short xaLeft, xaRight, yaTop, and yaBottom fields to all
be page relative.

fBelowText uns :1 4000 1 shape is below text

short 0 shape is above text

fAnchorLock uns :1 8000 1 anchor is locked

short 0 anchor is not locked

22 16 cTxbx long Count of textboxes in shape (undo doc only)

cbFSPA (count of bytes of FSPA) is 26 (decimal), 1A (hex).

Font Family Name (FFN)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 cbFfnM1 uns char Total length of FFN - 1.

1 1 prq uns char :2 03 Pitch request

fTrueType uns char :1 04 When 1, font is a TrueType font

uns char :1 08 Reserved

ff uns char :3 70 Font family id

uns char :1 80 Reserved

2 2 wWeight short Base weight of font

4 4 chs uns char Character set identifier

5 5 ixchSzAlt uns char Index into ffn.szFfn to the name of the

alternate font

6 6 panose PANOSE

16 10 fs FONTSIGNATURE
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

40 28 xszFfn XCHAR[] Zero terminated string that records name of

font. Possibly followed by a second xsz which
records the name of an alternate font to use if
the first named font does not exist on this
system. Maximal size of xszFfn is 65
characters.

File Information Block (FIB)

In Word version 8, the FIB is reorganized to make future extension easier, and to make it
easier to make backward compatible file format changes. The FIB now consists of four
substructures: the header and three arrays. The FIB header, is unchanged from past versions.
The second part is an array of 16-bit ―shorts‖, most of which were present in earlier versions
in different locations. The third part is an array of 32-bit longs, many of which were scattered
through the previous version FIB. Finally, there is an array of FC/LCB pairs, which were
divided into several disjoint arrays in the previous FIB. Future versions of Word will add
entries to the three arrays, so readers of the FIB must be careful to skip over any entries in
each array that were not present in the version for which the reader was designed. Writers of
the FIB must write exactly as many entries as was defined for the nFib value they put in the
FIB.
The FIBFCLCB structure, used in an array in the FIB:
Bitfield Bitfield
Decimal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

0 0x0000 Fc long File position where data begins.

4 0x0004 Lcb ulong Size of data. Ignore fc if lcb is zero.

The FCPGDOLD structure, referenced in the FIB, used internally by Word:

Bitfield Bitfield
Decimal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

0 0x0000 fcPgd long File position where data begins.

4 0x0004 lcbPgd ulong Size of data. Ignore fc if lcb is zero.

8 0x0008 fcBkd long File position where data begins.

12 0x000C lcbBkd ulong Size of data. Ignore fc if lcb is zero.

The FCPGD structure, referenced in the FIB, used internally by Word. This modified version of
the above structure was introduced in Word 2003:
Bitfield Bitfield
Decimal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

0 0x0000 fcPgd long File position where data begins. Word 2003

4 0x0004 lcbPgd ulong Size of data. Ignore fc if lcb is zero. Word 2003

8 0x0008 fcBkd long File position where data begins. Word 2003

12 0x000C lcbBkd ulong Size of data. Ignore fc if lcb is zero. Word 2003

16 0x0010 fcAfd FC File position where data begins. Word 2003

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Bitfield Bitfield
Decimal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

20 0x0014 lcbAfd ulong Size of data. Ignore fc if lcb is zero. Word 2003

The FIB structure itself:

Deci Bitfield Bitfield
mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

0 0x0000 Fibh FIBH Beginning of the FIB Word 97

header
0 0x0000 wIdent ushort Magic number Word 97

2 0x0002 nFib ushort FIB version written. This Word 97

will be >= 101 for all
Word 6.0 for Windows
and after documents.
4 0x0004 nProduct ushort Product version written by Word 97

6 0x0006 Lid ushort Language stamp Word 97

--localized version
In pre-WinWord 2.0 files
this value was the
nLocale. If value is <
999, then it is the
nLocale, otherwise it is
the lid.
8 0x0008 pnNext short Word 97

10 0x000A fDot ushort :1 0x0001 Set if this document is a Word 97

template
fGlsy ushort :1 0x0002 Set if this document is a Word 97
glossary
fComplex ushort :1 0x0004 When 1, file is in complex, Word 97
fast-saved format.
fHasPic ushort :1 0x0008 Set if file contains 1 or Word 97
more pictures
cQuickSaves ushort :4 0x00F0 Count of times file was Word 97
quick saved
fEncrypted ushort :1 0x0100 Set if file is encrypted Word 97

fWhichTblStm ushort :1 0x0200 When 0, this fib refers to Word 97

the table stream named
―0Table‖, when 1, this fib
refers to the table stream
named ―1Table‖.
Normally, a file will have
only one table stream, but
under unusual
circumstances a file may
have table streams with
both names. In that case,
this flag must be used to
decide which table stream
is valid.
fReadOnlyRecomme ushort :1 0x0400 Set when user has Word 97
nded recommended that file be
read read-only
fWriteReservatio ushort :1 0x0800 Set when file owner has Word 97
n made the file write
reserved
fExtChar ushort :1 0x1000 Set when using extended Word 97
character set in file
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

fLoadOverride ushort :1 0x2000 REVIEW Word 97

fFarEast ushort :1 0x4000 REVIEW Word 97

fCrypto ushort :1 0x8000 REVIEW Word 97

12 0x000C nFibBack Ushort This file format is Word 97

compatible with readers
that understand nFib at
or above this value.
14 0x000E lKey File encrypted key, only Word 97
valid if fEncrypted
18 0x0012 Envr Uchar Environment in which file Word 97
was created
0 created by Word for
Windows
1 created by Word for the
Macintosh
19 0x0013 fMac Uchar :1 0x01 When 1, this file was last Word 97
saved in the Macintosh
environment
fEmptySpecial Uchar :1 0x02 Word 97

fLoadOverridePag Uchar :1 0x04 Word 97

e
fFutureSavedUndo Uchar :1 0x08 Word 97

fWord97Saved Uchar :1 0x10 Word 97

fSpare0 Uchar :3 0xFE Word 97

20 0x0014 Chs Ushort Default extended Word 97

character set id for text in
document stream.
(overridden by chp.chse)
0 by default characters in
doc stream should be
interpreted using the
ANSI character set used
by Windows
256 characters in doc
stream should be
interpreted using the
Macintosh character set.
22 0x0016 chsTables Ushort Default extended Word 97
character set id for text in
internal data structures
0 by default characters
stored in internal data
structures should be
interpreted using the
ANSI character set used
by Windows
256 characters stored in
internal data structures
should be interpreted
using the Macintosh
character set.
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

24 0x0018 fcMin Long File offset of first Word 97

character of text. In
non-complex files a CP
can be transformed into
an FC by the following
transformation:
fc = cp + fib.fcMin.
28 0x001C fcMac Long File offset of last Word 97
character of text in
document text stream + 1
32 0x0020 Csw Ushort Count of fields in the Word 97
array of ―shorts‖
34 0x0022 Rgsw Beginning of the array of Word 97
shorts
34 0x0022 wMagicCreated Unique number Word 97
identifying the file‘s
creator. 0x6A62 is the
creator ID for Word and is
reserved. Other creators
should choose a different
value.
36 0x0024 wMagicRevised Identifies the file‘s last Word 97
modifier
38 0x0026 wMagicCreatedPri Private data Word 97
vate
40 0x0028 wMagicRevisedPri Private data Word 97
vate
42 0x002A pnFbpChpFirst_W6 Short Not used Word 97

44 0x002C pnChpFirst_W6 Short Not used Word 97

46 0x002E cpnBteChp_W6 Short Not used Word 97

48 0x0030 pnFbpPapFirst_W6 Short Not used Word 97

50 0x0032 pnPapFirst_W6 Short Not used Word 97

52 0x0034 cpnBtePap_W6 Short Not used Word 97

54 0x0036 pnFbpLvcFirst_W6 Short Not used Word 97

56 0x0038 pnLvcFirst_W6 Short Not used Word 97

58 0x003A cpnBteLvc_W6 Short Not used Word 97

60 0x003C lidFE Short Language id if document Word 97

was written by East Asian
version of Word (i.e.
FIB.fFarEast is on)
62 0x003E Clw Ushort Number of fields in the Word 97
array of longs
64 0x0040 Rglw Beginning of the array of Word 97
longs
64 0x0040 cbMac Long File offset of last byte Word 97
written to file + 1
68 0x0044 lProductCreated Contains the build date of Word 97
the creator. 10695
indicates the creator
program was compiled on
Jan 6, 1995.
72 0x0048 lProductRevised Contains the build date of Word 97
the file‘s last modifier
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

76 0x004C ccpText Long Length of main document Word 97

text stream 1
80 0x0050 ccpFtn Long Length of footnote Word 97
subdocument text stream
84 0x0054 ccpHdd Long Length of header Word 97
subdocument text stream
88 0x0058 ccpMcr Long Length of macro Word 97
subdocument text
stream, which should now
always be 0
92 0x005C ccpAtn Long Length of annotation Word 97
subdocument text stream
96 0x0060 ccpEdn Long Length of endnote Word 97
subdocument text stream
100 0x0064 ccpTxbx Long Length of textbox Word 97
subdocument text stream
104 0x0068 ccpHdrTxbx Long Length of header textbox Word 97
subdocument text stream
108 0x006C pnFbpChpFirst Long When there was Word 97
insufficient memory for
Word to expand the
plcfbte at save time, the
plcfbte is written to the
file in a linked list of
512-byte pieces starting
with this pn
112 0x0070 pnChpFirst Long The page number of the Word 97
lowest numbered page in
the document that
records CHPX FKP
information
116 0x0074 cpnBteChp Long Count of CHPX FKPs Word 97
recorded in file. In
non-complex files if the
number of entries in the
plcfbteChpx is less than
this, the plcfbteChpx is
incomplete
120 0x0078 pnFbpPapFirst Long When there was Word 97
insufficient memory for
Word to expand the
plcfbte at save time, the
plcfbte is written to the
file in a linked list of
512-byte pieces starting
with this pn
124 0x007C pnPapFirst Long The page number of the Word 97
lowest numbered page in
the document that
records PAPX FKP
information
128 0x0080 cpnBtePap Long Count of PAPX FKPs Word 97
recorded in file. In
non-complex files if the
number of entries in the
plcfbtePapx is less than
this, the plcfbtePapx is
incomplete.
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

132 0x0084 pnFbpLvcFirst Long When there was Word 97

insufficient memory for
Word to expand the
plcfbte at save time, the
plcfbte is written to the
file in a linked list of
512-byte pieces starting
with this pn
136 0x0088 pnLvcFirst Long The page number of the Word 97
lowest numbered page in
the document that
records LVC FKP
information
140 0x008C cpnBteLvc Long Count of LVC FKPs Word 97
recorded in file. In
non-complex files if the
number of entries in the
plcfbtePapx is less than
this, the plcfbtePapx is
incomplete.
144 0x0090 fcIslandFirst Long Word 97

148 0x0094 fcIslandLim Long Word 97

152 0x0098 Cfclcb Ushort Number of fields in the Word 97

array of FC/LCB pairs
154 0x009A Rgfclcb Beginning of array of Word 97
FC/LCB pairs
154 0x009A fcStshfOrig Long File offset of original Word 97
allocation for STSH in
table stream. During fast
save Word will attempt to
reuse this allocation if
STSH is small enough to
fit.
158 0x009E lcbStshfOrig Ulong Count of bytes of original Word 97
STSH allocation
162 0x00A2 fcStshf Long Offset of STSH in table Word 97
stream
166 0x00A6 lcbStshf Ulong Count of bytes of current Word 97
STSH allocation
170 0x00AA fcPlcffndRef Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
footnote reference PLCF
of FRD structures. CPs in
PLC are relative to main
document text stream
and give location of
footnote references.
174 0x00AE lcbPlcffndRef Ulong Count of bytes of footnote Word 97
reference PLC== 0 if no
footnotes defined in
document
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

178 0x00B2 fcPlcffndTxt Long Offset in table stream of Word 97

footnote text PLC. CPs in
PLC are relative to
footnote subdocument
text stream and give
location of beginnings of
footnote text for
corresponding references
recorded in plcffndRef.
No structure is stored in
this plc. There will just be
n+1 FC entries in this PLC
when there are n
footnotes.
182 0x00B6 lcbPlcffndTxt Ulong Count of bytes of footnote Word 97
text PLC. == 0 if no
footnotes defined in
document.
186 0x00BA fcPlcfandRef Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
annotation reference
ATRDPre10 PLC. The CPs
recorded in this PLC give
the offset of annotation
references in the main
document.
190 0x00BE lcbPlcfandRef Ulong Count of bytes of Word 97
annotation reference PLC
194 0x00C2 fcPlcfandTxt Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
annotation text PLC. The
CPs recorded in this PLC
give the offset of the
annotation text in the
annotation sub document
corresponding to the
references stored in the
plcfandRef. There is a
1-to-1 correspondence
between entries recorded
in the plcfandTxt and
the plcfandRef. No
structure is stored in this
PLC.
198 0x00C6 lcbPlcfandTxt Ulong Count of bytes of the Word 97
annotation text PLC
202 0x00CA fcPlcfsed Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
section descriptor SED
PLC. CPs in PLC are
relative to main
document.
206 0x00CE lcbPlcfsed Ulong Count of bytes of section Word 97
descriptor PLC
210 0x00D2 fcPlcpad Long No longer used Word 97

214 0x00D6 lcbPlcpad Ulong No longer used Word 97

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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

218 0x00DA fcPlcfphe Long Offset in table stream of Word 97

PHE PLC of paragraph
heights. CPs in PLC are
relative to main document
text stream. Only written
for files in complex
format. Should not be
written by third party
creators of Word files.
222 0x00DE lcbPlcfphe Ulong Count of bytes of Word 97
paragraph height PLC.
==0 when file is
non-complex.
226 0x00E2 fcSttbfglsy Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
glossary string table. This
table consists of
Pascal-style strings
(strings stored prefixed
with a length byte)
concatenated one after
another.
230 0x00E6 lcbSttbfglsy Ulong Count of bytes of glossary Word 97
string table. == 0 for
non-glossary documents.
!=0 for glossary
documents.
234 0x00EA fcPlcfglsy Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
glossary PLC. CPs in PLC
are relative to main
document and mark the
beginnings of glossary
entries and are in 1-1
correspondence with
entries of sttbfglsy. No
structure is stored in this
PLC. There will be n+1 FC
entries in this PLC when
there are n glossary
entries.
238 0x00EE lcbPlcfglsy Ulong Count of bytes of glossary Word 97
PLC. == 0 for
non-glossary documents.
!=0 for glossary
documents.
242 0x00F2 fcPlcfhdd Long Byte offset in table Word 97
stream of header HDD PLC.
CPs are relative to header
subdocument and mark
the beginnings of
individual headers in the
header subdocument. No
structure is stored in this
PLC. There will be n+1 FC
entries in this PLC when
there are n headers
stored for the document.
246 0x00F6 lcbPlcfhdd Ulong Count of bytes of header Word 97
PLC. == 0 if document
contains no headers.
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

250 0x00FA fcPlcfbteChpx Long Offset in table stream of Word 97

character property bin
table.PLC. FCs in PLC are
file offsets in the main
stream. Describes text of
main document and all
subdocuments.
254 0x00FE lcbPlcfbteChpx Ulong Count of bytes of Word 97
character property bin
table PLC
258 0x0102 fcPlcfbtePapx Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
paragraph property bin
table.PLC. FCs in PLC are
file offsets in the main
stream. Describes text of
main document and all
subdocuments.
262 0x0106 lcbPlcfbtePapx Ulong Count of bytes of Word 97
paragraph property bin
table PLC
266 0x010A fcPlcfsea Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
PLC reserved for private
use. The SEA is 6 bytes
long.
270 0x010E lcbPlcfsea Ulong Count of bytes of private Word 97
use PLC
274 0x0112 fcSttbfffn Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
font information STTBF.
The sttbfffn is a STTBF
where is string is actually
an FFN structure. The nth
entry in the STTBF
describes the font that
will be displayed when the
chp.ftc for text is equal
to n. See the FFN file
structure definition.
278 0x0116 lcbSttbfffn Ulong Count of bytes in Word 97
sttbfffn
282 0x011A fcPlcffldMom Long Offset in table stream to Word 97
the FLD PLC of field
positions in the main
document. The CPs point
to the beginning CP of a
field, the CP of field
separator character inside
a field and the ending CP
of the field. A field may be
nested within another
field. 20 levels of field
nesting are allowed.
286 0x011E lcbPlcffldMom Ulong Count of bytes in Word 97
plcffldMom
290 0x0122 fcPlcffldHdr Long Offset in table stream to Word 97
the FLD PLC of field
positions in the header
subdocument
294 0x0126 lcbPlcffldHdr Ulong Count of bytes in Word 97
plcffldHdr
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

298 0x012A fcPlcffldFtn Long Offset in table stream to Word 97

the FLD PLC of field
positions in the footnote
subdocument
302 0x012E lcbPlcffldFtn Ulong Count of bytes in Word 97
plcffldFtn
306 0x0132 fcPlcffldAtn Long Offset in table stream to Word 97
the FLD PLC of field
positions in the
annotation subdocument
310 0x0136 lcbPlcffldAtn Ulong Count of bytes in Word 97
plcffldAtn
314 0x013A fcPlcffldMcr Long No longer used Word 97

318 0x013E lcbPlcffldMcr Ulong No longer used Word 97

322 0x0142 fcSttbfbkmk Long Offset in table stream of Word 97

the STTBF that records
bookmark names in the
main document
326 0x0146 lcbSttbfbkmk Ulong Count of bytes in Word 97
Sttbfbkmk
330 0x014A fcPlcfbkf Long Offset in table stream of Word 97
the PLCF that records the
beginning CP offsets of
bookmarks in the main
document. See BKF
structure definition.
334 0x014E lcbPlcfbkf Ulong Count of bytes in Plcfbkf Word 97

338 0x0152 fcPlcfbkl Long Offset in table stream of Word 97

the PLCF that records the
ending CP offsets of
bookmarks recorded in
the main document. No
structure is stored in this
PLCF.
342 0x0156 lcbPlcfbkl Ulong Count of bytes in Plcfbkl Word 97

346 0x015A fcCmds Long Offset in table stream of Word 97

the macro commands.
These commands are
private and
undocumented.
350 0x015E lcbCmds Ulong Count of bytes of the data Word 97
above.
354 0x0162 fcPlcmcr Long No longer used Word 97

358 0x0166 lcbPlcmcr Ulong No longer used Word 97

362 0x016A fcSttbfmcr Long No longer used Word 97

366 0x016E lcbSttbfmcr Ulong No longer used Word 97

370 0x0172 fcPrDrvr long Offset in table stream of Word 97

the printer driver
information (names of
drivers, port, etc.)
374 0x0176 lcbPrDrvr ulong Count of bytes of the Word 97
printer driver information
(names of drivers, port,
etc.)
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

378 0x017A fcPrEnvPort long Offset in table stream of Word 97

the print environment in
portrait mode
382 0x017E lcbPrEnvPort ulong Count of bytes of the print Word 97
environment in portrait
mode
386 0x0182 fcPrEnvLand long Offset in table stream of Word 97
the print environment in
landscape mode
390 0x0186 lcbPrEnvLand ulong Count of bytes of the print Word 97
environment in landscape
mode
394 0x018A fcWss long Offset in table stream of Word 97
Window Save State data
structure. WSS contains
dimensions of document's
main text window and the
last selection made by
Word user.
398 0x018E lcbWss ulong Count of bytes of WSS. Word 97
==0 if unable to store the
window state. Should not
be written by third party
creators of Word files.
402 0x0192 fcDop long Offset in table stream of Word 97
document property data
structure
406 0x0196 lcbDop ulong Count of bytes of Word 97
document properties
410 0x019A fcSttbfAssoc long Offset in table stream of Word 97
STTBF of associated
strings. The strings in this
table specify document
summary info and the
paths to special
documents related to this
document. See
documentation of the
STTBFASSOC.
414 0x019E lcbSttbfAssoc ulong Count of bytes in Word 97
SttbfAssoc
418 0x01A2 fcClx long Offset in table stream of Word 97
beginning of information
for complex files. Consists
of an encoding of all of the
prms quoted by the
document followed by the
plcpcd (piece table) for
the document.
422 0x01A6 lcbClx ulong Count of bytes of complex Word 97
file information == 0 if file
is non-complex.
426 0x01AA fcPlcfpgdFtn long Not used Word 97

430 0x01AE lcbPlcfpgdFtn ulong Not used Word 97

434 0x01B2 fcAutosaveSource long Offset in table stream of Word 97

the name of the original
file. fcAutosaveSource
and cbAutosaveSource
should both be 0 if auto
save is off.
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438 0x01B6 lcbAutosaveSourc ulong Count of bytes of the Word 97

e name of the original file.
442 0x01BA fcGrpXstAtnOwner long Offset in table stream of Word 97
s group of strings recording
the names of the owners
of annotations stored in
the document
446 0x01BE lcbGrpXstAtnOwne ulong Count of bytes of the Word 97
rs group of strings
450 0x01C2 fcSttbfAtnbkmk long Offset in table stream of Word 97
the sttbf that records
names of bookmarks for
the annotation
subdocument
454 0x01C6 lcbSttbfAtnbkmk ulong Length in bytes of the Word 97
sttbf that records names
of bookmarks for the
annotation subdocument
458 0x01CA fcPlcdoaMom long No longer used Word 97

462 0x01CE lcbPlcdoaMom ulong No longer used Word 97

466 0x01D2 fcPlcdoaHdr long No longer used Word 97

470 0x01D6 lcbPlcdoaHdr ulong No longer used Word 97

474 0x01DA fcPlcspaMom long Offset in table stream of Word 97

the FSPA PLC for main
document. == 0 if
document has no Office
Drawing objects.
478 0x01DE lcbPlcspaMom ulong Length in bytes of the Word 97
FSPA PLC of the main
document
482 0x01E2 fcPlcspaHdr long Offset in table stream of Word 97
the FSPA PLC for header
document. == 0 if
document has no Office
Drawing objects.
486 0x01E6 lcbPlcspaHdr ulong Length in bytes of the Word 97
FSPA PLC of the header
document.
490 0x01EA fcPlcfAtnbkf long Offset in table stream of Word 97
BKF (bookmark first) PLC
of the annotation
subdocument
494 0x01EE lcbPlcfAtnbkf ulong Length in bytes of BKF Word 97
(bookmark first) PLC of
the annotation
subdocument
498 0x01F2 fcPlcfAtnbkl long Offset in table stream of Word 97
BKL (bookmark last) PLC
of the annotation
subdocument
502 0x01F6 lcbPlcfAtnbkl ulong Length in bytes of PLC Word 97
marking the CP limits of
the annotation
bookmarks. No structure
is stored in this PLC.
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506 0x01FA fcPms long Offset in table stream of Word 97

PMS (Print Merge State)
information block. This
contains the current state
of a print merge
operation.
510 0x01FE lcbPms ulong Length in bytes of PMS. Word 97
==0 if no current print
merge state. Should not
be written by third party
creators of Word files.
514 0x0202 fcFormFldSttbs long Offset in table stream of Word 97
form field sttbf which
contains strings used in
form field dropdown
controls
518 0x0206 lcbFormFldSttbs ulong Length in bytes of form Word 97
field sttbf
522 0x020A fcPlcfendRef long Offset in table stream of Word 97
endnote reference PLCF of
FRD structures. CPs in
PLCF are relative to main
document text stream
and give location of
endnote references.
526 0x020E lcbPlcfendRef ulong Count of bytes of the Word 97
plcfendRef
530 0x0212 fcPlcfendTxt long Offset in table stream of Word 97
plcfendRef which points
to endnote text in the
endnote document
stream which
corresponds with the
plcfendRef. No structure
is stored in this PLC.
534 0x0216 lcbPlcfendTxt ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
538 0x021A fcPlcffldEdn long Offset in table stream to Word 97
FLD PLCF of field positions
in the endnote
subdocument
542 0x021E lcbPlcffldEdn ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
546 0x0222 fcPlcfpgdEdn long Not used Word 97

550 0x0226 lcbPlcfpgdEdn ulong Not used Word 97

554 0x022A fcDggInfo long Offset in table stream of Word 97

the Office Drawing
object table data. The
format of office Drawing
object table data is found
in a separate document.
558 0x022E lcbDggInfo ulong Length in bytes of the Word 97
Office Drawing object
table data
562 0x0232 fcSttbfRMark long Offset in table stream to Word 97
STTBF that records the
author abbreviations for
authors who have made
revisions in the document
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566 0x0236 lcbSttbfRMark ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97

above data
570 0x023A fcSttbCaption long Offset in table stream to Word 97
STTBF that records
caption titles used in the
document
574 0x023E lcbSttbCaption ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
578 0x0242 fcSttbAutoCaptio long Offset in table stream to Word 97
n the STTBF that records
the object names and
indices into the caption
STTBF for objects which
get auto captions
582 0x0246 lcbSttbAutoCapti ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
on above data
586 0x024A fcPlcfwkb long Offset in table stream to Word 97
WKB PLCF that describes
the boundaries of
contributing documents in
a master document
590 0x024E lcbPlcfwkb ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
594 0x0252 fcPlcfspl long Offset in table stream of Word 97
PLCF (of SPLS structures)
that records spell check
state
598 0x0256 lcbPlcfspl ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
602 0x025A fcPlcftxbxTxt long Offset in table stream of Word 97
PLCF that records the
beginning CP in the text
box subdoc of the text of
individual text box
entries. No structure is
stored in this PLCF
606 0x025E lcbPlcftxbxTxt ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
610 0x0262 fcPlcffldTxbx long Offset in table stream of Word 97
the FLD PLCF that records
field boundaries recorded
in the textbox subdoc.
614 0x0266 lcbPlcffldTxbx ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
618 0x026A fcPlcfhdrtxbxTxt long Offset in table stream of Word 97
PLCF that records the
beginning CP in the
header text box subdoc of
the text of individual
header text box entries.
No structure is stored in
this PLC.
622 0x026E lcbPlcfhdrtxbxTx ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
t above data
626 0x0272 fcPlcffldHdrTxbx long Offset in table stream of Word 97
the FLD PLCF that records
field boundaries recorded
in the header textbox
subdoc.
630 0x0276 lcbPlcffldHdrTxb ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
x above data
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634 0x027A fcStwUser long Macro user storage Word 97

638 0x027E lcbStwUser ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97

above data
642 0x0282 fcSttbttmbd long Offset in table stream of Word 97
embedded true type font
data
646 0x0286 cbSttbttmbd ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
650 0x028A fcCookieData FC NLCheck error handle will Word 97
persist in file
654 0x028E lcbCookieData ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
658 0x0292 rgpgdbkdOldOld[3 FCPGDOLD[3] Index into the following Word 97
] three properties
658 0x0292 fcpgdMotherOldOl FCPGDOLD Offsets in table stream of Word 97
d the PLF that records the
page and break
descriptors for the main
text of the document
674 0x02A2 fcpgdFtnOldOld FCPGDOLD Offsets in table stream of Word 97
the PLF that records the
page and break
descriptors for the
footnote text of the
document
690 0x02B2 fcpgdEdnOldOld FCPGDOLD Offsets in table stream of Word 97
the PLF that records the
page and break
descriptors for the
endnote text of the
document
706 0x02C2 fcSttbfIntlFld long Offset in table stream of Word 97
the STTBF containing field
keywords. This is only
used in a small number of
the international versions
of Word.
This field is no longer
written to the file for nFib
>= 167.
710 0x02C6 lcbSttbfIntlFld ulong Always 0 for nFib>=167 Word 97

714 0x02CA fcRouteSlip long Offset in table stream of a Word 97

mailer routing slip
718 0x02CE lcbRouteSlip ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
722 0x02D2 fcSttbSavedBy long Offset in table stream of Word 97
STTBF recording the
names of the users who
have saved this document
alternating with the save
locations
726 0x02D6 lcbSttbSavedBy ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
730 0x02DA fcSttbFnm long Offset in table stream of Word 97
STTBF recording
filenames of documents
which are referenced by
this document
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734 0x02DE lcbSttbFnm ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97

above data
738 0x02E2 fcPlcfLst long Offset in the table stream Word 97
of list format information
742 0x02E6 lcbPlcfLst ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
746 0x02EA fcPlfLfo long Offset in the table stream Word 97
of list format override
information
750 0x02EE lcbPlfLfo ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
754 0x02F2 fcPlcftxbxBkd long Offset in the table stream Word 97
of the textbox break table
(a PLCF of BKDs) for the
main document
758 0x02F6 lcbPlcftxbxBkd ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
762 0x02FA fcPlcftxbxHdrBkd long Offset in the table stream Word 97
of the textbox break table
(a PLCF of BKDs) for the
header subdocument
766 0x02FE lcbPlcftxbxHdrBk ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
d above data
770 0x0302 fcDocUndoWord9 long Offset in main stream of Word 97
undocumented undo /
versioning data used pre
Word10
774 0x0306 lcbDocUndoWord9 ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
778 0x030A fcRgbuse long Offset in main stream of Word 97
undocumented undo /
versioning data
782 0x030E lcbRgbuse ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
786 0x0312 fcUsp long Offset in main stream of Word 97
undocumented undo /
versioning data
790 0x0316 lcbUsp ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
794 0x031A fcUskf long Offset in table stream of Word 97
undocumented undo /
versioning data
798 0x031E lcbUskf ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
802 0x0322 fcPlcupcRgbuse long Offset in table stream of Word 97
undocumented undo /
versioning data
806 0x0326 lcbPlcupcRgbuse ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
810 0x032A fcPlcupcUsp long Offset in table stream of Word 97
undocumented undo /
versioning data
814 0x032E lcbPlcupcUsp ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
818 0x0332 fcSttbGlsyStyle long Offset in table stream of Word 97
string table of style
names for glossary
entries
822 0x0336 lcbSttbGlsyStyle ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
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826 0x033A fcPlgosl long Offset in table stream of Word 97

undocumented grammar
options PL
830 0x033E lcbPlgosl ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
834 0x0342 fcPlcocx long Offset in table stream of Word 97
undocumented ocx data
838 0x0346 lcbPlcocx ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
842 0x034A fcPlcfbteLvc long Offset in table stream of Word 97
character property bin
table.PLC. FCs in PLC are
file offsets. Describes text
of main document and all
subdocuments.
846 0x034E lcbPlcfbteLvc ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
850 0x0352 ftModified FILETIME Word 97

850 0x0352 dwLowDateTime ulong Word 97

854 0x0356 dwHighDateTime ulong Word 97

858 0x035A fcPlcflvcPre10 long Offset in table stream of Word 97

LVC PLCF used pre
Word10
862 0x035E lcbPlcflvcPre10 ulong Size of LVC PLCF, ==0 for Word 97
non-complex files
866 0x0362 fcPlcasumy long Offset in table stream of Word 97
autosummary ASUMY
PLCF.
870 0x0366 lcbPlcasumy ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
874 0x036A fcPlcfgram long Offset in table stream of Word 97
PLCF (of SPLS structures)
which records grammar
check state
878 0x036E lcbPlcfgram ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
882 0x0372 fcSttbListNames long Offset in table stream of Word 97
list names string table
886 0x0376 lcbSttbListNames ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
890 0x037A fcSttbfUssr long Offset in table stream of Word 97
undocumented undo /
versioning data
894 0x037E lcbSttbfUssr ulong Count of bytes for the Word 97
above data
898 0382 fcPlcfTch FC Offset in table stream of Word 2000
table chars
This is an internal cache
used by Word
902 0386 lcbPlcfTch ulong Count of bytes of the Word 2000
above data
906 038A fcRmdfThreading FC Offset in table stream of Word 2000
revision mark data
This information is
unused
910 038E lcbRmdfThreading ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2000
above data
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914 0392 fcMid FC Offset in table stream of Word 2000

Message ID (if any)
This information is
unused
918 0396 lcbMid ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2000
above data
922 039A fcSttbRgtplc FC Offset in table stream of Word 2000
list gallery data (tplcs)
This is internal
information used by
Word's list user interface
926 039E lcbSttbRgtplc ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2000
above data
930 03A2 fcMsoEnvelope FC Offset in table stream of Word 2000
persist the mail envelope
This is undocumented
email header information
saved with the file
934 03A6 lcbMsoEnvelope ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2000
above data
938 03AA fcPlcflad FC Offset in table stream of Word 2000
Language Auto Detect
results
This is internal
information used by
Word's language
detection feature
942 03AE lcbPlcflad ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2000
above data
946 03B2 fcRgdofr FC Document File Records Word 2000
(miscellaneous document
data)
This is undocumented
miscellaneous
information
950 03B6 lcbRgdofr ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2000
above data
954 03BA fcPlcosl FC Offset in table stream of Word 2000
NLCheck grammar option
state per language
This is internal
information used by
Word's grammar features
958 03BE lcbPlcosl ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2000
above data
962 03C2 fcPlcfcookieOld FC Offset in table stream of Word 2000
NLCheck error handle pre
Word10
This is internal
information used by
Word's grammar features
966 03C6 lcbPlcfcookieOld Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2000
above data
970 03CA rgpgdbkdOld[3] FCPGDOLD[3] Index into the following Word 2000
(see definition three properties
This is an internal
of this
information cache used
structure by Word
above)
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970 03CA fcpgdMotherOld FCPGDOLD Main document Word 2000

repagination cache: used
internally by Word
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word
986 03DA fcpgdFtnOld FCPGDOLD Footnotes repagination Word 2000
cache: used internally by
Word
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word
1002 03EA fcpgdEdnOld FCPGDOLD Endnotes repagination Word 2000
cache: used internally by
Word
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word
1018 03FA fcUnused FC Not used Word 2000

1022 03FE lcbUnused Ulong Not used Word 2000

1026 0402 fcPlcfpgp FC Offset in table stream of Word 2000

Paragraph Group
Properties
This is undocumented
HTML DIV (paragraph
group) formatting
information
1030 0406 lcbPlcfpgp Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2000
above data
1034 040A fcPlcfuim FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
UIM property data
This is internal
information used by
language input features in
Word
1038 040E lcbPlcfium Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1042 0412 fcPlfguidUim FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
UIM table of GUIDs
This is internal
information used by
language input features in
Word
1046 0416 lcbPlfguidUim Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1050 041A fcAtrdExtra FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
plex of ATRDPost10
structures
1054 041E lcbAtrdExtra Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1058 0422 fcPlrsid FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
RSID plex.
This is undocumented
revision mark
information.
1062 0426 lcbPlrsid Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
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1066 042A fcSttbfBkmkFacto FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002

id smart tag bookmark STTB
This is undocumented
information on the smart
tags embedded in the
document
1070 042E lcbSttbfBkmkFact Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
oid above data
1074 0432 fcPlcfBkfFactoid FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
smart tag bookmark plc of
cpFirsts
This is undocumented
information on the smart
tags embedded in the
document
1078 0436 lcbPlcfBkfFactoi Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
d above data
1082 043A fcPlcfcookie FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
whether the NLCheck
error handle will persist in
file
This is internal
information used by
Word's grammar
features.
1086 043E lcbPlcfcookie Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1090 0442 fcPlcfBklFactoid FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
smart tag bookmark plc of
cpLims
This is undocumented
information on the smart
tags embedded in the
document
1094 0446 lcbPlcfBklFactoi Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
d above data
1098 044A fcFactoidData FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
smart tag data
This is undocumented
information on the smart
tags embedded in the
document
1102 044E lcbFactoidData Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1106 0452 fcDocUndo FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
undocumented undo /
versioning data
This is internal
information used by
Word's undo/versioning
features.
1110 0456 lcbDocUndo Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1114 045A fcSttbfBkmkFcc FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
fcc bookmark sttb
This is internal bookmark
information used by
Word's styles and
formatting feature to
keep track of formatting
use.
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1118 045E lcbSttbfBkmkFcc Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1122 0462 fcPlcfBkfFcc FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
fcc bookmark plc of
cpFirsts
This is internal bookmark
information used by
Word's styles and
formatting feature to
keep track of formatting
use.
1126 0466 lcbPlcfBkfFcc Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1130 046A fcPlcfBklFcc FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
fcc bookmark plc of
cpLims
This is internal bookmark
information used by
Word's styles and
formatting feature to
keep track of formatting
use.
1134 046E lcbPlcfBklFcc Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1138 0472 fcSttbfbkmkBPRep FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
airs file repair bookmark sttb
This is internal bookmark
information used by
Word's styles and
formatting feature to
keep track of formatting
use.
1142 0476 lcbSttbfbkmkBPRe Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
pairs above data
1146 047A fcPlcfbkfBPRepai FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
rs file repair bookmark plc
of cpFirsts
This is internal bookmark
information used by
Word's file repair feature
to track repaired
document portions.
1150 047E lcbPlcfbkfBPRepa Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
irs above data
1154 0482 fcPlcfbklBPRepai FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
rs file repair bookmark plc
of cpLims
This is internal bookmark
information used by
Word's file repair feature
to track repaired
document portions.
1158 0486 lcbPlcfbklBPRepa Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
irs above data
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1162 048A fcPmsNew FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002

new mail merge state
information, needed
because old ipfnpmf was
not validated.
This is undocumented
information used by
Word's mail merge
feature.
1166 048E lcbPmsNew Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1170 0492 fcODSO FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
IMsoODSO/IMsoMailmerg
e Information
This is undocumented
information used by
Word's mail merge
feature.
1174 0496 lcbODSO Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data
1178 049A fcPlcfpmiOldXP FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
Paragraph Mark
Information (Old View)
for Word 2002.
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1182 049E lcbPlcfpmiOldXP Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data .
1186 04A2 fcPlcfpmiNewXP FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
Paragraph Mark
Information (New View)
for Word 2002.
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1190 04A6 lcbPlcfpmiNewXP Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data.
1194 04AA fcPlcfpmiMixedXP FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
Paragraph Mark
Information (Mixed View)
for Word 2002.
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1198 04AE lcbPlcfpmiMixedX Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
P above data.
1202 04B2 fcEncryptedProps FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
encryption properties
This is an internal
encrypted version of
document properties used
by Word.
1206 04B6 lcbEncryptedProp Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
s above data
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1210 04BA fcPlcffactoid FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002

background factoid
checking state
This is internal state
information used by
Word's smart tag
features.
1214 O4BE lcbPlcffactoid Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data.
1218 04C2 fcPlcflvcOldXP FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
LVC PLC (Old View) for
Word 2002.
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1222 04C6 lcbPlcflvcOldXP Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data.
1226 04CA fcPlcflvcNewXP FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
LVC PLC (New View) for
Word 2002.
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1230 04CE lbcPlcflvcNewXP Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
above data.
1234 04D2 fcPlcflvcMixedXP FC Offset in table stream of Word 2002
LVC PLC (Mixed View) for
Word 2002.
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1238 04D6 lcbPlcflvcMixedX Ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2002
P above data.
1242 4DA fcHplxsdr FC XML Schema Definition Word 2003
References
This is undocumented
XML schema information.
The recommended way to
consume this information
is through Word's XML
output. The XML format is
documented separately
and can be found on
MSDN.
1246 4DE lcbHplxsdr; ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1250 4E2 fcSttbfBkmkSdt FC SDT bookmark STTB Word 2003
This is undocumented
XML bookmark
information. The
recommended way to
consume this information
is through Word's XML
output. The XML format is
documented separately
and can be found on
MSDN.
1254 4E6 lcbSttbfBkmkSdt ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
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1258 4EA fcPlcfBkfSdt FC SDT bookmark plc of Word 2003

cpFirsts
This is undocumented
XML bookmark
information. The
recommended way to
consume this information
is through Word's XML
output. The XML format is
documented separately
and can be found on
MSDN.
1262 4EE lcbPlcfBkfSdt ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1266 4F2 fcPlcfBklSdt FC SDT bookmark plc of Word 2003
cpLims
This is undocumented
XML bookmark
information. The
recommended way to
consume this information
is through Word's XML
output. The XML format is
documented separately
and can be found on
MSDN.
1270 4F6 lcbPlcfBklSdt ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1274 4FA fcCustomXForm FC Custom XML Transform Word 2003
on save
This is undocumented
XML transform
information. The
recommended way to
consume this information
is through Word's XML
output. The XML format is
documented separately
and can be found on
MSDN.
1278 4FE lcbCustomXForm ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1282 502 fcSttbfBkmkProt FC Range protection Word 2003
bookmark STTB
This is undocumented
bookmark information
used by Word's document
protection feature.
1286 506 lcbSttbfBkmkProt ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1290 50A fcPlcfBkfProt FC Range protection Word 2003
bookmark plc of
cpFirsts
This is undocumented
bookmark information
used by Word's document
protection feature.
1294 50E lcbPlcfBkfProt ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

1298 512 fcPlcfBklProt FC Range protection Word 2003

bookmark plc of cpLims
This is undocumented
bookmark information
used by Word's document
protection feature.
1302 516 lcbPlcfBklProt ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1306 51A fcSttbProtUser FC Range protection user list Word 2003
STTB
This is undocumented
user information used by
Word's document
protection feature.
1310 51E lcbSttbProtUser ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1314 522 fcPlcftpc FC Current text paragraph Word 2003
cache
This is unused.
1318 526 lcbPlcftpc ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1322 52A fcPlcfpmiOld FC Paragraph Mark Word 2003
Information (Old View)
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1326 52E lcbPlcfpmiOld ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1330 532 fcPlcfpmiOldInli FC Paragraph Mark Word 2003
ne Information (Old Inline
View)
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1334 536 lcbPlcfpmiOldInl ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
ine above data.
1338 53A fcPlcfpmiNew FC Paragraph Mark Word 2003
Information (New View)
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1342 53E lcbPlcfpmiNew ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1346 542 fcPlcfpmiNewInli FC Paragraph Mark Word 2003
ne Information (New Inline
View)
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1350 546 lcbPlcfpmiNewInl ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
ine above data.
1354 54A fcPlcflvcOld FC LVC PLC (Old View) Word 2003
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1358 54E lcbPlcflvcOld ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1362 552 fcPlcflvcOldInli FC LVC PLC (Old Inline View) Word 2003
ne; This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
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Deci Bitfield Bitfield

mal Hex Name Type Size Mask Comments Introduced

1366 556 lcbPlcflvcOldInl ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
ine above data.
1370 55A fcPlcflvcNew FC LVC PLC (New View) Word 2003
This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1374 55E lcbPlcflvcNew ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1378 562 fcPlcflvcNewInli FC LVC PLC (New Inline View) Word 2003
ne This is an internal
information cache used
by Word.
1382 566 lcbPlcflvcNewInl ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
ine above data.
1386 56A rgpgdbkd[3] FCPGD This is an internal Word 2003
information cache used
by Word.
1386 56A fcpgdMother FCPGD This is an internal Word 2003
information cache used
by Word.
1410 582 fcpgdFtn FCPGD This is an internal Word 2003
information cache used
by Word.
1434 59A fcpgdEdn FCPGD This is an internal Word 2003
information cache used
by Word.
1458 5B2 fcAfd FC This is internal revision Word 2003
mark view information
used by Word.
1462 5B6 lcbAfd ulong Count of bytes for the Word 2003
above data.
1466 5BA cswNew Ushort The number of entries in Word 2003
rgswNew[]
1468 5Bc rgswNew[] Ushort Index to the following Word 2003
properties
1468 5Bc nFib Ushort The actual nFib, moved Word 2003
here because some
readers assumed they
couldn't read any format
with nFib > some
constant
1470 5BE cQuickSavesNew Ushort Because of the above, we Word 2003
need to use cQuickSaves
to prevent Word 97 from
quick saving to Word
2000 files
1
Note: when ccpFtn==0 and ccpHdr==0 and ccpMcr==0 and ccpAtn==0 and ccpEdn==0 and ccpTxbx==0 and
ccpHdrTxbx==0, then fib.fcMac=fib.fcMin+ fib.ccpText. If either ccpFtn!=0 or ccpHdd!=0 or ccpMcr!=0 or
ccpAtn!=0 or ccpEdn!=0 or ccpTxbx!=0 or ccpHdrTxbx==0, then
fib.fcMac=fib.fcMin+fib.ccpText+fib.ccpFtn+fib.ccpHdd+fib.ccpMcr+fib.ccpAtn+fib.ccpEdn+
fib.ccpTxbx+fib.ccpHdrTxbx+1. The single character stored beginning at file position fib.fcMac-1 must always be
a CR character (ASCII 13).

cbFIB (count of bytes of FIB) is 1472 (decimal), 5C0 (hex).

Note If a table does not exist in the file, its cb in the FIB is zero and its fc is equal to that of
the following table (the latter equality is irrelevant, as the cb should be used to determine
existence of the table).
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Footnote Reference Descriptor (FRD)

The FRD is stored in both the plcffndRef and the plcfendRef.
Offset
(base 10) Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 nAuto short If > 0, the note is an automatically numbered note,

otherwise it has a custom mark

Formatted Disk Page for CHPXs (CHPX FKP)

Offset
(base 10) Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 Rgfc array of Each FC is the limit FC of a run of exception

FCs text

4*(fkp.crun+1) rgb array of An array of bytes where each byte is the

bytes word offset of a CHPX. If the byte stored is
0, there is no difference between run's
character properties and the style's
character properties.

5*fkp.crun+4 unused As new runs/paragraphs are recorded in

space the FKP, unused space is reduced by 5 if
CHPX is already recorded and is reduced by
5+sizeof(CHPX) if property is not already
recorded.

511-sizeof(grpchpx) grpchp array of Grpchpx consists of all of the CHPXs stored

x bytes in FKP concatenated end to end. Each CHPX
is prefixed with a count of bytes which
records its length.

511 Crun byte Count of runs for CHPX FKP

The CHP is never stored in a Word file. It is derived by expanding stored CHPXs.
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Formatted Disk Page for PAPXs (PAPX FKP)

Offset Field Type Size Bitfield Comments
(base
10)

0 rgfc FC[fkp.crun+1] Each FC is the limit FC of a paragraph (i.e.

points to the next character past an end of
paragraph mark). There will be fkp.crun+1
recorded in the FKP.
4*(fkp.cr rgbx BX[fkp.crun] An array of the BX data structure. The ith BX
un+1) entry in the array describes the paragraph
beginning at fkp.rgfc[i]. The BX is a 13 byte
data structure. The first byte of each BX is the
word offset of the PAPX recorded for the
paragraph corresponding to this BX. If the byte
stored is 0, this represents a 1 line paragraph
15 pixels high with Normal style (stc == 0)
whose column width is 7980 dxas. The last 12
bytes of the BX is a PHE structure which stores
the current paragraph height for the
paragraph corresponding to the BX. If a
plcfphe has an entry that maps to the FC for
this paragraph, that entry‘s PHE overrides the
PHE stored in the FKP.11*fkp.crun+4 unused
space. As new runs/paragraphs are recorded
in the FKP, unused space is reduced by 17 if
CHPX/PAPX is already recorded and is reduced
by 17+sizeof(PAPX) if property is not already
recorded.
511-size grppapx array of bytes grppapx consists of all of the PAPXs stored in
of(grppa FKP concatenated end to end. Each PAPX
begins with a count of words which records its
px)
length padded to a word boundary.
511 crun Byte Count of paragraphs for PAPX FKP.

The PAP is never stored in a Word file. It is derived by expanding stored PAPXs.
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Hyphenation (HRESI)
Substructure of the CHP. Referenced elsewhere in this document.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 hres Uns char 1 Hyphenation rule

0 No hyphenation
1 Normal hyphenation
2 Add letter before hyphen
3 Change letter before hyphen
4 Delete letter before hyphen
5 Change letter after hyphen
6 Delete letter before the hyphen and change the letter
preceding the deleted character
1 1 chHres Uns char 1 The character that will be used to add or change a letter
when chp.ysr is 2,3, 5 or 6

List LeVeL (on File) (LVLF)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0x00 iStartAt Long 4 Start at value for this list level

4 0x04 nfc Byte 1 Number format code (see anld.nfc for a

list of options)

5 0x05 jc uns char :2 0x03 Alignment (left, right, or centered) of the

paragraph number.
fLegal uns char :1 0x04 True (==1) if the level turns all inherited
numbers to arabic, false if it preserves
their number format code (nfc)
fNoRestart uns char :1 0x08 True if the level‘s number sequence is not
restarted by higher (more significant)
levels in the list
fPrev uns char :1 0x10 Word 6.0 compatibility option: equivalent
to anld.fPrev (see ANLD)

fPrevSpace uns char :1 0x20 Word 6.0 compatibility option: equivalent

to anld.fPrevSpace (see ANLD)
fWord6 uns char :1 0x40 True if this level was from a converted
Word 6.0 document. If it is true, all of the
Word 6.0 compatibility options become
valid; otherwise they are ignored.

6 0x06 rgbxchNums[9] Array 9 Contains the character offsets into the

LVL’s XST of the inherited numbers of
previous levels. This array should be zero
terminated unless it is full (all 9 levels
full). The XST contains place holders for
any paragraph numbers contained in the
text of the number, and the place holder
contains the ilvl of the inherited
number, so
lvl.xst[lvl.rgbxchNums[0]] == the
level of the first inherited number in this
level.

15 0x0F ixchFollow uns char 1 The type of character following the

number text for the paragraph: 0 == tab,
1 == space, 2 == nothing.
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

16 0x10 dxaSpace Long 4 Word 6.0 compatibility option: equivalent

to anld.dxaSpace (see ANLD). For newer
versions indent to remove if we remove
this numbering.
20 0x14 dxaIndent Long 4 Word 6.0 compatibility option: equivalent
to anld.dxaIndent (see ANLD). Unused in
newer versions.
24 0x18 cbGrpprlChpx Byte 1 Length, in bytes, of the LVL‘s grpprlChpx

25 0x19 cbGrpprlPapx Byte 1 Length, in bytes, of the LVL‘s grpprlPapx

26 0x1A ilvlRestartLi Uchar 1 Limit of levels that we restart after

m
27 0x1B grfhic Uchar 1 HTML compatibility flags:

0x01 Checked
0x02 The numbering sequence or
format is unsupported (includes tab &
size)
0x04 The list text is not "#."
0x080 Something other than a period is
used
0x10 First line indent mismatch
0x20 The list tab and the dxaLeft don't
match (need table?)
0x40 The hanging indent falls beneath
the number (need plain text)
0x80 A built-in HTML bullet

Line Spacing Descriptor (LSPD)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 dyaLine short See description of sprmPDyaLine for

description of the meaning of dyaLine

2 2 fMultLinespace short See description of sprmPDyaLine in the

Sprm Definitions section for description of
the meaning of dyaLine and
fMultLinespace fields

cbLSPD (count of bytes of LSPD) is 4.

LiST Data (on File) (LSTF)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0x00 lsid long 4 Unique List ID

4 0x04 tplc long 4 Unique template code

8 0x08 rgistd[9] array 18 Array of shorts containing the istd‘s linked to each
level of the list, or istdNil (4095) if no style is
linked.
26 0x1A fSimpleLis uns char :1 0x01 True if this is a simple (one-level) list; false if this is
t a multilevel (nine-level) list.
fRestartHd uns char :1 0x02 Word 6.0 compatibility option: true if the list
n should start numbering over at the beginning of
each section
fAutoNum uns char :1 0x04 To emulate Word 6.0 numbering: true if Auto
numbering
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

fPreRTF uns char :1 0x08 When 1, this list was there before we started
reading RTF
fHybrid uns char :1 0x10 When 1, list is a hybrid multilevel/simple
(UI=simple, internal=multilevel)
reserved uns char :3 0xE0 Reserved

27 0x1B grfhic uns char HTML compatibility flags:

0x01 Checked
0x02 The numbering sequence or format is
unsupported (includes tab & size)
0x04 The list text is not "#."
0x080 Something other than a period is used
0x10 First line indent mismatch
0x20 The list tab and the dxaLeft don't match
(need table?)
0x40 The hanging indent falls beneath the
number (need plain text)
0x80 A built-in HTML bullet

List Format Override (LFO)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0x0 lsid long 4 List ID of corresponding LSTF (see LSTF)

4 0x4 reserved long 4 Reserved

8 0x8 reserved long 4 Reserved

12 0xC clfolvl uns char 1 Count of levels whose format is overridden (see
LFOLVL)

13 0xD ibstFltAutoNum uns char 1 Used for AUTONUM field emulation

14 grfhic uns char 1 HTML compatibility flags:

0x01 Checked
0x02 The numbering sequence or format is
unsupported (includes tab & size)
0x04 The list text is not "#."
0x080 Something other than a period is used
0x10 First line indent mismatch
0x20 The list tab and the dxaLeft don't match
(need table?)
0x40 The hanging indent falls beneath the
number (need plain text)
0x80 A built-in HTML bullet
15 reserved uns char 1 Reserved
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List Format Override for a single LeVeL (LFOLVL)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 iStartAt long 4 Start-at value if fFormatting==false and

fStartAt==true. (if fFormatting == true, the
start- is stored in the LVL)
4 4 ilvl uns long :4 0x0F The level to be overridden

fStartAt uns long :1 0x10 True if the start-at value is overridden

fFormattin uns long :1 0x20 True if the formatting is overridden (in which case
g the LFOLVL should contain a pointer to a LVL)

grfhic uns long :8 0x3FC0 HTML compatibility flags:

0x01 Checked
0x02 The numbering sequence or format is
unsupported (includes tab & size)
0x04 The list text is not "#."
0x080 Something other than a period is used
0x10 First line indent mismatch
0x20 The list tab and the dxaLeft don't match
(need table?)
0x40 The hanging indent falls beneath the
number (need plain text)
0x80 A built-in HTML bullet
reserved uns long :18 Reserved

Outline LiST Data (OLST)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 rganlv[9] ANLV An array of 9 ANLV structures describing how

heading numbers should be displayed for each of
Word‘s 9 outline heading levels
180 B4 fRestartHdr uns char When ==1, restart heading on section break

181 B5 fSpareOlst2 uns char Reserved

182 B6 fSpareOlst3 uns char Reserved

183 B7 fSpareOlst4 uns char Reserved

184 B8 rgxch[32] array of 32 Text before/after number

XCHARs

cbOLST (count of bytes of OLST) is 248(decimal), F8(hex).

Outline LiST Data for Word 97 (OLST80)
Same as OLST but rganlv[9] is of type ANLV80.

Number Revision Mark Data (NUMRM)

The NUMRM structure is used to track revision marking data for paragraph numbers, and is
stored in the PAP for each numbered paragraph. When revision marking tracking is turned on,
we fill out the NUMRM for each number with the data required to recreate the number‘s text.
Then at display time, that string is compared with the current paragraph number string, and
displayed as changed (old deleted, current inserted) if the strings differ. The string
construction algorithm is the same as for an LVL structure.
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 fNumRM uns char 1 True if this paragraph was numbered when

revision mark tracking was turned on

1 1 Spare uns char 1

2 2 ibstNumRM short 2 Index to author IDs stored in hsttbfRMark

for the paragraph number change

4 4 dttmNumRM DTTM 4 Date of the paragraph number change

8 8 rgbxchNums[9] uns char[9] 9 Index into NUMRM.xst of the locations of

paragraph number place holders for each
level (see LVL.rgxchNums)

17 11 rgnfc[9] uns char[9] 9 Number format code for the paragraph

number place holders for each level (see
LVL.nfc)

26 1A Spare short 2

28 1C PNBR int [9] 36 Numeric value for each level place holder in
NUMRM.xst.

64 40 xst XCHAR[32] 64 The text string for the paragraph number,

containing level place holders

cbNUMRM (count of bytes of NUMRM) is 128 (decimal), 80 (hex).

Page Descriptor (PGD)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 * short :4 000F

fGhost short :2 0030 Redefine fEmptyPage and fAllFtn. true when

blank page or footnote only page

* short :10 FFC0

0 0 fContinue short :1 0001 When 1, footnote is continued from previous

page

fUnk short :1 0002 When 1, page is dirty (i.e. pagination cannot be

trusted)

fRight short :1 0004 When 1, right hand side page

fPgnRestart short :1 0008 When 1, page number must be reset to 1

fEmptyPage short :1 0010 When 1, section break forced page to be empty.

fAllFtn short :1 0020 When 1, page contains nothing but footnotes

short :1 0040 Unused

fTableBreaks short :1 0080 Table breaks have been calculated for this page

fMarked short :1 0100 Used temporarily while word is running

fColumnBreaks short :1 0200 Column breaks have been calculated for this
page

fTableHeader short :1 0400 Page had a table header at the end

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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

fNewPage short :1 0800 Page has never been valid since created, must
recalculate the bounds of this page. If this is the
last page, this PGD may really represent many
pages

bkc short :4 F000 Section break code

2 2 lnn uns short Line number of first line, -1 if no line numbering

4 4 pgn uns short Page number as printed

6 6 dym long Height of page for online view

10 A dxm long Width of page for web view

14 E dyaPage long Page height for web or page view

cbPGD (count of bytes of PGD) is 18.

Paragraph Height (PHE)
The PHE is a substructure of the PAP and the PAPX FKP and is also stored in the PLCFPHE.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 fVolatile short :1 0001 Complex shape layout in this paragraph

fUnk short :1 0002 PHE entry is invalid when == 1

fDiffLines short :1 0004 When 1, total height of paragraph is known but

lines in paragraph have different heights

* short :5 00F8 Reserved

clMac short :8 FF00 When fDiffLines is 0 is number of lines in

paragraph

2 2 short Reserved

4 4 dxaCol long Width of lines in paragraph

8 8 dymLine long When fDiffLines is 0, is height of every line in

paragraph in pixels

8 8 dymHeight long When fDiffLines is 1, is the total height in

pixels of the paragraph

If the PHE is stored in a PAP whose fTtp field is set (non-zero), the following structure is used:
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 fSpare short :1 0001 Reserved

fUnk short :1 0002 PHE entry is invalid when == 1

dcpTtpNext short :30 If not == 0, used as a hint when finding the

next row

4 4 dxaCol long

8 8 dymTableHeight long Height of table row

cbPHE (the count of bytes of PHE) is 12.

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If there is no paragraph height information stored for a paragraph, all of the fields in the PHE
are set to 0. If a paragraph contains more than 127 lines, the clMac, dylLine variant cannot
be used, so fDiffLines must be set to 1 and the total size of the paragraph stored in
dylHeight. If a paragraph height is greater than 32767 twips, the height cannot be
represented by a PHE so all fields of the PHE must be set to 0.
If a new Word file is created, the PHE of every papx fkp entry created to describe the
paragraphs of the file should be set to 0. If a Word file is altered in place (a character of the file
changed to a new character or a property changed), the paragraph containing the change
must have its papx.phe field set to 0. If this paragraph is in a table row, the PHE in the papx
at the end of the row (indicated by fInTable) must also be set to 0.

Paragraph Properties (PAP)

The PAP is never written to a file. Word only writes the SPRMs that modify their respective
properties. From them one can build a the collection of paragraph properties. For this reason
offsets into the structure are not listed
Field Type Size Comments

istd ushort 2 Index to style descriptor. This is an index to an STD in the

STSH structure.

fSideBySide uchar 1 When 1, paragraph is a side by side paragraph

spare1 uchar 1 Unused

fKeep uchar 1 Keep entire paragraph on one page if possible

fKeepFollow uchar 1 Keep paragraph on same page with next paragraph if

possible

fPageBreakBefore uchar 1 Start this paragraph on new page

brcl uchar 1 Border line style

0 single
1 thick
2 double
3 shadow
brcp uchar 1 Rectangle border codes

0 none
1 border above
2 border below
15 box around
16 bar to left of paragraph
ilvl uchar 1 When non-zero, list level for this paragraph

ilfo uchar 1 When non-zero, (1-based) index into the pllfo

identifying the list to which the paragraph belongs

fNoLnn uchar 1 No line numbering for this paragraph. (makes this an

exception to the section property of line numbering)

nLvlAnm uchar 1 Unused

lspd LSPD 4 Line spacing descriptor for the paragraph

dyaBefore Unsigned long 4 Space before paragraph (unsigned)

dyaAfter Unsigned long 4 Space after paragraph (unsigned)

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Field Type Size Comments

finTableW97 uchar 1 Paragraph is in table (archaic)

fTtp uchar 1 Table trailer paragraph (last paragraph in table row)

swUnused2 short 2 Unused

dxaAbs long 4 When positive, is the horizontal distance from the

reference frame specified by pap.pcHorz. 0 means
paragraph is positioned at the left with respect to the
reference frame specified by pcHorz. Certain negative
values have special meaning:
-4 paragraph centered horizontally within reference
frame
-8 paragraph adjusted right within reference frame
-12 paragraph placed immediately inside of reference
frame
-16 paragraph placed immediately outside of reference
frame
dyaAbs long 4 When positive, is the vertical distance from the reference
frame specified by pap.pcVert. 0 means paragraph's
y-position is unconstrained. Certain negative values have
special meaning:
-4 paragraph is placed at top of reference frame
-8 paragraph is centered vertically within reference
frame
-12 paragraph is placed at bottom of reference frame
dxaWidth long 4 When not == 0, paragraph is constrained to be dxaWidth
wide, independent of current margin or column settings

fBrLnAbove uns char :1

fBrLnBelow uns char :1

fUnused uns char :2 Unused

pcVert uns char :2 Vertical position code. Specifies coordinate frame to use
when paragraphs are absolutely positioned.
0 vertical position coordinates are relative to margin
1 coordinates are relative to page
2 coordinates are relative to text. This means: relative
to where the next non-APO text would have been placed if
this APO did not exist.
pchorz uns char :2 Horizontal position code. Specifies coordinate frame to
use when paragraphs are absolutely positioned.
0 horizontal position coordinates are relative to
column.
1 coordinates are relative to margin
2 coordinates are relative to page
unused uns char :8 Unused

wr BYTE 1 Wrap code for absolute objects

fNoAutoHyph uchar 1 When 0, text in paragraph may be auto hyphenated

wHeightAbs ushort 2 Height when 0 == Auto

dyaHeight :15 Height of abs obj; 0 == Auto

fMinHeight :1 Minimum height is exact or auto:

0 = Exact
1 = At Least
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Field Type Size Comments

dcs DCS 2 Drop cap specifier

dyaFromText long 4 Vertical distance between text and absolutely positioned

object

dxaFromText long 4 Horizontal distance between text and absolutely

positioned object

fLocked BYTE 1 Anchor of an absolutely positioned frame is locked

fWidowControl uchar 1 When 1, Word will prevent widowed lines in this

paragraph from being placed at the beginning of a page

fKinsoku uns char 1 When 1, apply Kinsoku rules when performing line
wrapping

fWordWrap uns char 1 When 1, perform word wrap

fOverflowPunct uns char 1 When 1, apply overflow punctuation rules when

performing line wrapping

fTopLinePunct uns char 1 When 1, perform top line punctuation processing

fAutoSpaceDE uns char 1 When 1, auto space East Asian and alphabetic characters

fAtuoSpaceDN uns char 1 When 1, auto space East Asian and numeric characters

wAlignFont uns short 2 Font alignment

0 Hanging
1 Centered
2 Roman
3 Variable
4 Auto
fVertical short :1 Used internally by Word

fBackward short :1 Used internally by Word

fRotateFont short :1 Used internally by Word

empty short :13 Reserved

iSnapBaseLine uchar 1 Unused

lvl char 1 Outline level

fBiDi uchar 1 Text flows right to left.

fNumRMins uchar 1 Paragraph number is inserted (only valid if

pap.numrm.fNumRM is 0)

fCrLf uchar 1 Used internally

fUsePgsuSettings uchar 1 Use Page Setup Line Pitch

fAdjustRight uchar 1 Adjust right margin

fUnused2 uchar 1 Unused

itap long 4 Table nesting level

fInnerTableCell uchar 1 When 1, the end of paragraph mark is really an end of cell
mark for a nested table cell
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Field Type Size Comments

fOpenTch uchar 1 Ensure the Table Cell char doesn't show up as zero height

dxcRight short 2 Right indent in character units

dxcLeft short 2 Left indent in character units

dxcLeft1 short 2 First line indent in character units

dylBefore short 2 Vertical spacing before paragraph in character units

dylAfter short 2 Vertical spacing after paragraph in character units

fDyaBeforeAuto uchar 1 Vertical spacing before is automatic

fDyaAfterAuto uchar 1 Vertical spacing after is automatic

dxaRight long 4 Word 97: indent from right margin

Word 2000: indent from right margin (signed) for

left-to-right text; from left margin for right-to-left text

dxaLeft long 4 Word 97: indent from left margin (signed)

Word 2000: indent from left margin (signed) for

left-to-right text; from right margin for right-to-left text

dxaLeft1 long 4 First line indent; signed number relative to dxaLeft

jc uchar 1 Justification code

0 left justify
1 center
2 right justify
3 left and right justify
4 distributed
5 Medium
6 List tab
7 High
8 Low
9 Thai distributed
Justification in Word 2000 and above is relative to text
direction (for example, left is left for left-to-right text and
right for right-to-left text).
fNoAllowOverlap uchar 1 When 1, absolutely positioned paragraph cannot overlap
with another paragraph

rgbrc[cbrcParaBorder BRC[cbrcParaBorders] 48 Array of borders

s]
brcTop BRC 8 Specification for border above paragraph

brcLeft BRC 8 Specification for border to the left of paragraph

brcBottom BRC 8 Specification for border below paragraph

brcRight BRC 8 Specification for border to the right of paragraph

brcBetween BRC 8 Specification of border to place between conforming

paragraphs. Two paragraphs conform when both have
borders, their brcLeft and brcRight matches, their
widths are the same, they both belong to tables or both
do not, and have the same absolute positioning props.
brcBar BRC 8 Specification of border to place on outside of text when
facing pages are to be displayed
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Field Type Size Comments

shd SHD 10 Paragraph shading

anld ANLD 88 Word 6.0 paragraph numbering

phe PHE 12 Height of current paragraph.

fPropRMark Uns short 2 When 1, properties have been changed with revision
marking on

ibstPropRMark IBST 2 Index to author IDs stored in hsttbfRMark. Used when

properties have been changed when revision marking was
enabled

dttmPropRMark DTTM 4 Date/time at which properties of this were changed for

this run of text by the author. (Only recorded when
revision marking is on.)

fCharLineUnits uchar 1 Used internally by Word

fFrpTap uchar 1 Used internally by Word

dxaFromTextRight long 4 Used internally by Word

dyaFromTextBottom long 4 Used internally by Word

lfrp long 4 Used internally by Word

itbdMac short 2 Number of tabs stops defined for paragraph. Must be >=
0 and <= 64.

rgdxaTab[itbdMax] short[itbdMax] 128 Array of positions of itbdMac tab stops. itbdMax==64

rgtbd[itbdMax] TBD[itbdMax] 64 Array of itbdMac tab descriptors

numrm NUMRM 128 Paragraph numbering revision mark data (see NUMRM)

ptap Pointer to a TAP 4 Used internally by Word

The following properties were added in Word 2002:

fNoAllowOverlap uchar 1 When 1, absolutely positioned paragraph cannot overlap
with another paragraph

ipgp ulong 4 HTML DIV ID for this paragraph

rsid RSID (long) 4 Save ID for last time this PAP was revised

Random number associated with paragraph formatting

which improves the accuracy of Word‘s document merge
feature

istdList ushort 2 Paragraph List Style

fContextualSpacing uchar 1 Ignore the space before/after properties between

paragraphs of the same style

fHasOldProps uchar 1 Used for paragraph property revision marking. The pap at
the time fHasOldProps is set to 1, the is the old pap.

rpf RPF 1 revision pane flags

hplcnf HPL 4 Conditional paragraph properties

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yfti YFTI 13 information about the last table autofit conditional results

The standard PAP is all zeros except:

fWidowControl 1
fMultLineSpace 1
dyaLine 240 twips
Lvl 9

Paragraph Property Exceptions (PAPX)

The PAPX is stored within FKPs and within the STSH.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 cb byte Count of bytes of following data in PAPX. The first byte of a

PAPX is a count of bytes when a PAPX is stored in a STSH.
Count of bytes is used because only paragraph sprms are
stored in a STSH PAPX.

0 0 cw byte Count of words for this byte and the following data in
PAPX. The first byte of a PAPX is a count of words when
PAPX is stored in an FKP. If this value is 0, it is a ‗pad‘ byte
and the count is stored in the following byte, Count of
words is used because PAPX in an FKP can contain
paragraph and table sprms.

1 1 (cw) byte If previous byte is 0, this is the count of words of following

data in PAPX (not including this and previous ‗pad‘ byte)

1/2 1/2 istd uns short Index to style descriptor of the style from which the
paragraph inherits its paragraph and character properties

3/4 3/4 grppr character A list of the sprms that encode the differences between
l array PAP for a paragraph and the PAP for the style used. When
a paragraph bound is also the end of a table row, the PAPX
also contains a list of table sprms which express the
difference of table row's TAP from an empty TAP that has
been cleared to zeros. The table sprms are recorded in the
list after all of the paragraph sprms. See sprms definitions
for list of sprms that are used in PAPXs.

For calculating papx.cw when storing in an FKP: For even-sized grpprls, the grpprl plus
the istd and cw bytes will be an even number of bytes, so we store the count of words for all
three elements in papx.cw. For odd-sized grpprls, the three elements will be an odd number
of bytes, which can‘t be represented with a count of words; so, we store a ‗pad‘ byte of 0 at the
beginning (in the normal cw location), followed by a count that is the size of the grpprl and
istd byte only (since that‘s an even number of bytes). In either case, papx.cw is immediately
followed by the istd and grpprl.

Picture Bullet Information (PBI)

Used within the CHP structure.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 fPicBullet unsigned short :1 It is a picture bullet

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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

fNoAutoSiz unsigned short :1 Do not auto size the picture bullet

e
fDefaultPi unsigned short :1 This is the default picture bullet
c
fTemporary unsigned short :1

unused unsigned short :11 Not used

fFormattin unsigned short :1 Not used. Always set to 0.

g
2 2 iBullet CP 4 Character position

Picture Descriptor (on File) (PICF)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 lcb long Number of bytes in the PIC structure plus size of

following picture data which may be a Window's
metafile, a bitmap, or the filename of a TIFF file.
In the case of a Macintosh PICT picture, this
includes the size of the PIC, the standard ―x‖
metafile, and the Macintosh PICT data. See
Appendix B for more information.
4 4 cbHeader unsigned Number of bytes in the PIC (to allow for future
expansion).

6 6 mfp.mm short

8 8 mfp.xExt short

10 A mfp.yExt short

12 C mfp.hMF short

If a Windows metafile is stored immediately following the PIC structure, the mfp is a Window's
METAFILEPICT structure. See
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms649017(VS.85).aspx for more information
about the METAFILEPICT structure and
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/B/E/0BE8BDD7-E5E8-422A-ABFD-4342ED7AD8
86/WindowsMetafileFormat(wmf)Specification.pdf for Windows Metafile Format specification.
When the data immediately following the PIC is a TIFF filename, mfp.mm==98 If a bitmap is
stored after the pic, mfp.mm==99.
When the PIC describes a bitmap, mfp.xExt is the width of the bitmap in pixels and
mfp.yExt is the height of the bitmap in pixels.

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

14 E bm BITMAP(14 Window's bitmap structure when PIC describes a

bytes) BITMAP

14 E rcWinMF rc (rectangle - 8 Rectangle for window origin and extents when

bytes) metafile is stored -- ignored if 0

28 1C dxaGoal short Horizontal measurement in twips of the rectangle

the picture should be imaged within
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

30 1E dyaGoal short Vertical measurement in twips of the rectangle

the picture should be imaged within

when scaling bitmaps, dxaGoal and dyaGoal may be ignored if the operation would cause the
bitmap to shrink or grow by a non -power-of-two factor.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

32 20 mx uns short Horizontal scaling factor supplied by user

expressed in .001% units

34 22 my uns short Vertical scaling factor supplied by user expressed

in .001% units

For all of the Crop values, a positive measurement means the specified border was moved
inward from its original setting and a negative measurement means the border was moved
outward from its original setting.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

36 24 dxaCropLeft short The amount the picture has been cropped on the
left in twips

38 26 dyaCropTop short The amount the picture has been cropped on the
top in twips

40 28 dxaCropRight short The amount the picture has been cropped on the
right in twips

42 2A dyaCropBottom short The amount the picture has been cropped on the
bottom in twips

44 2C brcl short :4 000F Obsolete, superseded by brcTop, etc. In WinWord

1.x, it was the type of border to place around
picture
0 single
1 thick
2 double
3 shadow
fFrameEmpty short :1 0010 Picture consists of a single frame

fBitmap short :1 0020 ==1, when picture is just a bitmap

fDrawHatch short :1 0040 ==1, when picture is an active OLE object

fError short :1 0080 ==1, when picture is just an error message

bpp short :8 Bits per pixel

0 unknown
1 monochrome
4 VGA

46 2E brcTop BRC Specification for border above picture

54 36 brcLeft BRC Specification for border to the left of picture

62 3E brcBottom BRC Specification for border below picture

70 46 brcRight BRC Specification for border to the right of picture

78 4E dxaOrigin short Horizontal offset of hand annotation origin

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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

80 50 dyaOrigin short Vertical offset of hand annotation origin

82 52 cProps short Unused

84 54 rgb Variable array of bytes containing Window's

metafile, bitmap or TIFF file filename

Piece Descriptor (PCD)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 fNoParaLast Uns short :1 0001 When 1, means that piece contains no end of
paragraph marks

fPaphNil Uns short :1 0002 Used internally by Word

fDirty Uns short :1 0004 Used internally by Word

* Uns short :1

1 1 fn Uns short :12 FF00 Used internally by Word

2 2 fc FC File offset of beginning of piece. The size of the ith

piece can be determined by subtracting rgcp[i]
of the containing plcfpcd from its rgcp[i+1].

6 6 prm PRM Contains either a single sprm or else an index

number of the grpprl which contains the sprms
that modify the properties of the piece

cbPCD (count of bytes of PCD) is 8.

Plex of CPs stored in File (PLCF)
Offset (in Field Type Comment
decimal)

0 rgfc FC[] The size of PLCF is cb and the size of the structure stored in plc is cbStruct,
then the number of structure instances stored in PLCF, iMac is given by (cb
-4)/(4 + cbStruct). The number of FCs stored in the PLCF will be iMac + 1.

4*(iMac+1) rgstruc struct[] Array of some arbitrary structure

t

cbPLC (count of bytes of a PLC) is iMac(4+cbStruct)+4.

Property Modifier(variant 1) (PRM)
The PRM has two variants. In the first variant, the PRM records a single sprm with a bit- or
byte-sized operand.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 fComplex short :1 0001 Set to 0 for variant 1

isprm short :7 00FE Index to entry into rgsprmPrm

val short :8 FF00 sprm‘s operand

cbPRM (count of bytes of PRM) is 2.

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Property Modifier(variant 2) (PRM)

In the second variant, prm.fComplex is 1, and the rest of the structure records an index to a
grpprl stored in the CLX (described in Complex File Format topic).
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 fComplex short :1 0001 Set to 1 for variant 2

igrpprl short :15 FFFE Index to a grpprl stored in CLX portion of file

cbPRM (count of bytes of PRM) is 2.

Routing Slip (RS)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 fRouted short When 1, document has been routed to at least one recipient

2 2 fReturnOrig short When 1, document should be routed to the originator after it

has been routed to all recipients

4 4 fTrackStatus short When 1, a status message is sent to the originator each time
the document is forwarded to a recipient on the routing list

6 6 fDirty short Unused( should be 0)

8 8 nProtect short Document protection while routing:

0 recipients can make changes to the document and all
changes are untracked.
1 recipients can add annotations and make changes to the
document. Any changes are tracked by revision marks, and
revision marking cannot be turned off.
2 recipients can only add annotations to the document.
3 recipients can enter information only in form fields.

10 A iStage short Index of the current recipient

12 C delOption short When 0, document is routed to each recipient in turn. when 1,

document is routed to all recipients simultaneously

14 E cRecip short Count of recipients

cbRS (count of bytes of RS) is 16 (decimal), 10 (hex).

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Routing Recipient (RR)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 cb short Count of bytes of private system data

2 2 cbSzRecip short Count of bytes in recipient string (including null

terminator)

cbRR (count of bytes of RR) is 4.

Section Descriptor (SED)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 fn short Used internally by Word

2 2 fcSepx FC File offset in main stream to beginning of SEPX stored

for section. If sed.fcSepx==0xFFFFFFFF, the section
properties for the section are equal to the standard SEP
(see SEP definition).

6 6 fnMpr short Used internally by Word

8 8 fcMpr FC Points to offset in FC space of main stream where the

Macintosh Print Record for a document created on a
Macintosh will be stored

cbSED (count of bytes of SED) is 12 (decimal), C (hex).

Section Properties (SEP)
Note: offsets are not provided for this structure because it is not written to a file. Only Section
SPRMs from the collection of section properties can be constructed with total flexibility.
Field Type Size Comments

bkc uns char Break code:

0 No break
1 New column
2 New page
3 Even page
4 Odd page
fTitlePage uns char Set to 1 when a title page is to be displayed

fAutoPgn char Only for Macintosh compatibility, used only during open, when 1,
sep.dxaPgn and sep.dyaPgn are valid page number locations

nfcPgn uns char Page number format code:

0 Arabic
1 Roman (upper case)
2 Roman (lower case)
3 Letter (upper case)
4 Letter (lower case)
fUnlocked uns char Set to 1, when a section in a locked document is unlocked

cnsPgn uns char Chapter number separator for page numbers

fPgnRestart uns char Set to 1 when page numbering should be restarted at the beginning
of this section

fEndNote uns char When 1, footnotes placed at end of section. When 0, footnotes are
placed at bottom of page.
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Field Type Size Comments

lnc char Line numbering code:

0 Per page
1 Restart
2 Continue
grpfIhdtSepOld char Specification of which headers and footers are included in this
section. See explanation in Headers and Footers topic. No longer
used.

nLnnMod uns short If 0, no line numbering, otherwise this is the line number modulus
(e.g. if nLnnMod is 5, line numbers appear on line 5, 10, etc.)

dxaLnn long Distance of

dxaPgn short When fAutoPgn ==1, gives the x position of auto page number on
page in twips (for Macintosh compatibility only)

dyaPgn short When fAutoPgn ==1, gives the y position of auto page number on
page in twips (for Macintosh compatibility only)

fLBetween char When ==1, draw vertical lines between columns

dmBinFirst uns short Bin number supplied from windows printer driver indicating which
bin the first page of section will be printed

dmBinOther uns short Bin number supplied from windows printer driver indicating which
bin the pages other than the first page of section will be printed

dmPaperReq uns short dmPaper code for form selected by user

fPropRMark short When 1, properties have been changed with revision marking on

ibstPropRMark short Index to author IDs stored in hsttbfRMark. used when properties
have been changed when revision marking was enabled

dttmPropRMark DTTM Date/time at which properties of this were changed for this run of
text by the author. (Only recorded when revision marking is on.)

dxtCharSpace long How big is a character grid unit (East Asian)

dyaLinePitch long Line pitch: How tall a grid unit is up/down

clm uns short Grid description:

0=default
1=Chars and line
2=Lines Only
3=Enforce Grid
dmOrientPage uns char Orientation of pages in that section. Set to 0 when portrait, 1 when
landscape.

iHeadingPgn uns char Heading number level for page number

pgnStart uns short User specified starting page number

lnnMin short Beginning line number for section

pgbProp short Page border properties

pgbApplyTo short :3 Page border applies to:

0 all pages in this section
1 first page in this section
2 all pages in this section but first
3 whole document (all sections)
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Field Type Size Comments

pgbPageDepth short :2 Page border depth:

0 in front
1 in back

pgbOffsetFrom short :3 Page border offset from:

0 offset from text
1 offset from edge of page

xaPage uns long Width of page -- default value is 12240 twips

yaPage uns long Height of page -- default value is 15840 twips

xaPageNUp uns long Used internally by Word

yaPageNUp uns long Used internally by Word

wTextFlow uns short Text flow:

0 = Horizontal with no @ fonts
1 = Top to Bottom with @ fonts
2 = Bottom to Top with no @ fonts
3 = Top to Bottom with no @ fonts
4 = Horizontal with @ fonts
5 = Vertical with no @ fonts
dxaLeft uns long Left margin -- default value is 1800 twips

dxaRight uns long Right margin -- default value is 1800 twips

dyaTop long Top margin --default value is 1440 twips

dyaBottom long Bottom margin -- default value is 1440 twips

dzaGutter uns long Gutter width -- default value is 0 twips

dyaHdrTop uns long Y position of top header measured from top edge of page

dyaHdrBottom uns long Y position of bottom header measured from top edge of page

ccolM1 short Number of columns in section - 1

fEvenlySpaced char When == 1, columns are evenly spaced. Default value is 1.

vjc char Vertical justification code:

0 top justified
1 centered
2 fully justified vertically
3 bottom justified
dxaColumns long Distance that will be maintained between columns

fBiDi uns char When 1, section direction is right-to-left

fFacingCol uns char When 1, section has facing columns

fRTLGutter uns char When 1, section has a right-to-left gutter

fRTLAlignment uns char When 1, section has right-to-left alignment

rgdxaColumnWidthSpacing Array of 89 longs that determine bounds of irregular width columns

array of XA
dxaColumnWidth long Used internally by Word

dmOrientFirst uns char Page orientation:

1 Portrait
2 Landscape
3 Mixed
brcTop BRC Top page border
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Field Type Size Comments

brcLeft BRC Left page border

brcBottom BRC Bottom page border

brcRight BRC Right page border

olstAnm OLST Multilevel auto numbering list data (see OLST definition)

fHasOldProps uchar 1 Used for section property revision marking. The sep at the time
fHasOldProps is set to 1, the is the old sep.

rsid RSDI 4 a random number associated with section formatting which

(long) improves the accuracy of Word‘s document merging.

fpc FPC 1 Footnote position code

0 print as endnotes
1 print at bottom of page
2 print immediately beneath text

fncFtn RNC 1 Restart footnote number code

0 don‘t restart endnote numbering
1 restart for each section
2 restart for each page

epc epc 1 Endnote position code

0 display endnotes at end of section
3 display endnotes at end of document

rncEdn rnc 1 Restart endnote number code

0 don‘t restart endnote numbering
1 restart for each section
2 restart for each page

nFtn ushort 2 starting footnote number

nfcFtnRef nfc 2 number format for footnote references

(short)
See Number Format Table under Document Properties (DOP)

nEdn ushort 2 starting endnote number

nfcEdnRef nfc 2 number format for endnote references

(short)
See Number Format Table under Document Properties (DOP)

The standard SEP is all zeros except as follows:

bkc 2 (new page)
dyaPgn 720 twips (equivalent to .5 in)
dxaPgn 720 twips
fEndnote 1 (True)
fEvenlySpaced 1 (True)
xaPage 12240 twips
yaPage 15840 twips
xaPageNUp 12240 twips
yaPageNUp 15840 twips
dyaHdrTop 720 twips
dyaHdrBottom 720 twips
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dmOrientPage 1 (portrait orientation)

dxaColumns 720 twips
dyaTop 1440 twips
dxaLeft 1800 twips
dyaBottom 1440 twips
dxaRight 1800 twips
pgnStart 1

Section Property Exceptions (SEPX)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comment

0 0 cb uns short Count of bytes in remainder of SEPX

2 2 grpprl char[] List of sprms that encodes the differences between the
properties of a section and Word's default section properties

Shading Descriptor (SHD)

The SHD is a substructure of the CHP, PAP, and TC for Word 2000.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Comments

0 0 COLORREF 4 24-bit foreground color

cvFore
4 4 COLORREF 4 24-bit background color
cvBack
8 8 uns short 2 Shading pattern (see ipat table below)
ipat
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Shading Descriptor for Word 97 (SHD80)

The SHD80 is a substructure of the CHP and PAP, and TC for Word 97.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 icoFore short :5 001F Foreground color (see chp.ico)

icoBack short :5 03E0 Background color (see chp.ico)

ipat short :6 FC00 Shading pattern (see ipat table below)

ipat Pattern
0 Automatic
1 Solid
2 5 Percent
3 10 Percent
4 20 Percent
5 25 Percent
6 30 Percent
7 40 Percent
8 50 Percent
9 60 Percent
10 70 Percent
11 75 Percent
12 80 Percent
13 90 Percent
14 Dark Horizontal
15 Dark Vertical
16 Dark Forward Diagonal
17 Dark Backward Diagonal
18 Dark Cross
19 Dark Diagonal Cross
20 Horizontal
21 Vertical
22 Forward Diagonal
23 Backward Diagonal
24 Cross
25 Diagonal Cross
35 2.5 Percent
36 7.5 Percent
37 12.5 Percent
38 15 Percent
39 17.5 Percent
40 22.5 Percent
41 27.5 Percent
42 32.5 Percent
43 35 Percent
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ipat Pattern
44 37.5 Percent
45 42.5 Percent
46 45 Percent
47 47.5 Percent
48 52.5 Percent
49 55 Percent
50 57.5 Percent
51 62.5 Percent
52 65 Percent
53 67.5 Percent
54 72.5 Percent
55 77.5 Percent
56 82.5 Percent
57 85 Percent
58 87.5 Percent
59 92.5 Percent
60 95 Percent
61 97.5 Percent
62 97 Percent

cbSHD (count of bytes of SHD) is 2.

Spelling State Mark (SPLS)
The SPLS structure is stored in both the plcfspl and the plcfgram.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 splf short :4 000F Spelling result flag:

2 maybe dirty: check if have time
3 dirty: needs to be checked
4 recently edited
5 cannot be checked
7 clean: checked and error-free
10 error
11 repeated word error
12 unknown word error
fError short :1 0010 Set to 1 when SPLS marks an error

fExtend short :1

fTypo short :1 Typo

unused short :1 Reserved

nCheckLevel short :8 FFE0 ignore-all list version

cbSPLS (count of bytes of SPLS) is 2

Tab Descriptor (TBD)
The TBD is a substructure of the PAP.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 jc byte :3 07 Justification code

0 left tab
1 centered tab
2 right tab
3 decimal tab
4 bar
tlc byte :3 38 Tab leader code
0 no leader
1 dotted leader
2 hyphenated leader
3 single line leader
4 heavy line leader
5 middle dot
* byte :2 C0 Reserved

cbTBD (count of bytes of TBD) is 1.

Table Cell Descriptors (TC)
The TC is a substructure of the TAP. This structure is never written out to disk but can be built
from the appropriate property modifiers. For this reason no offsets into the structure are
given.
Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

fFirstMerged BF :1 0001 When 1, cell is first cell of a range of cells that have
been merged. When a cell is merged, the display
areas of the merged cells are consolidated and the
text within the cells is interpreted as belonging to one
text stream for purposes of calculating line breaks.
fMerged BF :1 0002 When 1, cell has been merged with preceding cell

fVertical BF :1 0004 When 1, cell has vertical text flow

fBackward BF :1 0008 For a vertical table cell, text flow is bottom to top
when 1 and is bottom to top when 0

fRotateFont BF :1 0010 When 1, cell has rotated characters (i.e. uses @font)

fVertMerge BF :1 0020 When 1, cell is vertically merged with the cell(s)

above and/or below. When cells are vertically
merged, the display area of the merged cells are
consolidated. The consolidated area is used to display
the contents of the first vertically merged cell (the cell
with fVertRestart set to 1), and all other vertically
merged cells (those with fVertRestart set to 0) must
be empty. Cells can only be merged vertically if their
left and right boundaries are (nearly) identical (i.e. if
corresponding entries in rgdxaCenter of the table
rows differ by at most 3).
fVertRestart BF :1 0040 When 1, the cell is the first of a set of vertically
merged cells. The contents of a cell with fVertStart
set to 1 are displayed in the consolidated area
belonging to the entire set of vertically merged cells.
Vertically merged cells with fVertRestart set to 0
must be empty.
vertAlign BF :2 0180 Specifies the alignment of the cell contents relative to
text flow (e.g. in a cell with bottom to top text flow
and bottom vertical alignment, the text is shifted
horizontally to match the cell‘s right boundary):
0 top
1 center
2 bottom
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Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

ftsWidth BF :3 0E00 Units for wWidth:

0 Null
1 Auto, ignores wWidth
2 Percentage (in 50ths of a percent)
3 Twips
fFitText BF :1 1000 When 1, make the text fit the table cell

fNoWrap BF :1 2000 When 1, do not allow text to wrap in the table cell

fUnused BF :2 C000 Not used

wWidth short Preferred cell width

shd SHD 10 Cell shading

tcd TCD 16 Diagonal Cell border information

mpibrcwCellPadding[cbrcTc] short 8 Array of cell margins, convenient indexing of the

following four properties

wCellPaddingLeft short 2 Left cell margin/padding

wCellPaddingTop short 2 Top cell margin/padding

wCellPaddingBottom short 2 Bottom cell margin/padding

wCellPaddingRight short 2 Right cell margin/padding

mpibrcftsCellPadding[cbrcTc] uchar 4 Array of cell margin units, convenient indexing of the

following four properties

ftsCellPaddingLeft uchar 1 Left cell margin/padding units:

0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellPaddingTop uchar 1 Top cell margin/padding units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellPaddingBottom uchar 1 Bottom cell margin/padding units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellPaddingRight uchar 1 Right cell margin/padding units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
mpibrcwCellSpacing[cbrcTc] short 8 Array of cell spacing, convenient indexing of the
following four properties

wCellSpacingLeft short 2 Left cell spacing

wCellSpacingTop short 2 Top cell spacing

wCellSpacingBottom short 2 Bottom cell spacing

wCellSpacingRight short 2 Right cell spacing

mpibrcftsCellSpacing[cbrcTc] uchar 4 Array of cell spacing units, convenient indexing of the

following four properties

ftsCellSpacingLeft uchar 1 Left cell spacing units:

0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
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Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

ftsCellSpacingTop uchar 1 Top cell spacing units:

0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellSpacingBottom uchar 1 Bottom cell spacing units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellSpacingRight uchar 1 Right cell spacing units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
mpibrcfValidGapHalf[cbrcTc] uchar 4 Used internally by Word

mpibrcdzaGapHalf[cbrcTc] short 8 Used internally by Word

rgbrc[cbrcTc] BRC 32 Array of borders; cbrcTc = 4

brcTop BRC 8 Top border

brcLeft BRC 8 Left border

brcBottom BRC 8 Bottom border

brcRight BRC 8 Right border

Table Cell Diagonal Borders (TCD)

The TCD is a substructure of the TC. This structure is never written out to disk but can be built
from the appropriate property modifiers. For this reason no offsets into the structure are
given.
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 brcTL2BR BRC Diagonal border from the top left to the bottom right of the cell.

8 8 brcTR2BL BRC Diagonal border from the top right to the bottom left of the cell.

Table Autoformat Look sPecifier (TLP)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 itl short Index to Word‘s table of table looks (see itl table below)

2 2 fBorders short :1 0001 When ==1, use the border properties from the selected table look

fShading short :1 0002 When ==1, use the shading properties from the selected table look

fFont short :1 0004 When ==1, use the font from the selected table look

fColor short :1 0008 When ==1, use the color from the selected table look

fBestFit short :1 0010 When ==1, do best fit from the selected table look

fHdrRows short :1 0020 When ==1, apply properties from the selected table look to the
header rows in the table

fLastRow short :1 0040 When ==1, apply properties from the selected table look to the last
row in the table
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b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

fHdrCols short :1 0080 When ==1, apply properties from the selected table look to the
header columns of the table

fLastCol short :1 0100 When ==1, apply properties from the selected table look to the last
column of the table

itl Table look

0 (none)
1 Simple 1
2 Simple 2
3 Simple 3
4 Classic 1
5 Classic 2
6 Classic 3
7 Classic 4
8 Colorful 1
9 Colorful 2
10 Colorful 3
11 Columns 1
12 Columns 2
13 Columns 3
14 Columns 4
15 Columns 5
16 Grid 1
17 Grid 2
18 Grid 3
19 Grid 4
20 Grid 5
21 Grid 6
22 Grid 7
23 Grid 8
24 List 1
25 List 2
26 List 3
27 List 4
28 List 5
29 List 6
30 List 7
31 List 8
32 3D Effects 1
33 3D Effects 2
34 3D Effects 3
35 Contemporary
36 Elegant
37 Professional
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itl Table look

38 Subtle1
39 Subtle2

cbTLP (count of bytes of TLP) is 4.

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Table Properties (TAP)

This structure is never written out to disk but can be built from the appropriate property
modifiers. For this reason no offsets into the structure are given.
Field Type Size Comments

istd short 2 Table style for the Table

jc short 2 Justification code. specifies how table row

should be justified within its column.

0 left justify
1 center
2 right justify
dxaGapHalf long 4 Measures half of the white space that will
be maintained between text in adjacent
columns of a table row. A dxaGapHalf
width of white space will be maintained on
both sides of a column boundary.
dyaRowHeight long 4 When greater than 0. guarantees that the
height of the table will be at least
dyaRowHeight high. When less than 0,
guarantees that the height of the table will
be exactly absolute value of
dyaRowHeight high. When 0, table will be
given a height large enough to represent
all of the text in all of the cells of the table.
Cells with vertical text flow make no
contribution to the computation of the
height of rows with auto or at least height.
Neither do vertically merged cells, except
in the last row of the vertical merge. If an
auto height row consists entirely of cells
which have vertical text direction or are
vertically merged, and the row does not
contain the last cell in any vertical cell
merge, then the row is given height equal
to that of the end of cell mark in the first
cell.
fCantSplit uchar 1 When 1, table row may not be split across
page bounds

fCantSplit90 uchar 1 When 1, table row may not be split across

page bounds. Used for Word 2000 and
Word 97.
fTableHeader uchar 1 When 1, table row is to be used as the
header of the table

tlp TLP 4 Table look specifier (see TLP definition)

wWidth short 2 Preferred table width

wWidthIndent short 2 Left Indent

wWidthBefore short 2 Width of invisible cell (used for layout

purposes) before the first visible cell in the
row.

wWidthAfter short 2 Width of invisible cell (used for layout

purposes) after the last visible cell in the
row.

fAutofit unsigned short :1 When set to 1, AutoFit this table

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Field Type Size Comments

istd short 2 Table style for the Table

fKeepFollow unsigned short :1 When set to 1, keep this row with the
following row

ftsWidth unsigned short :3 Units for wWidth:

0 Null
1 Auto, ignores wWidth
2 Percentage (in 50ths of a percent)
3 Twips
ftsWidthIndent unsigned short :3 Units for wWidthIndent:
0 Null
1 Auto, ignores wWidthIndent
2 Percentage (in 50ths of a percent)
3 Twips
ftsWidthBefore unsigned short :3 Units for wWidthBefore:
0 Null
1 Auto, ignores wWidthBefore
2 Percentage (in 50ths of a percent)
3 Twips
ftsWidthAfter unsigned short :3 Units for wWidthAfter:
0 Null
1 Auto, ignores wWidthAfter
2 Percentage (in 50ths of a percent)
3 Twips
fNeverBeenAutofit unsigned short :1 When 1, table has never been autofit

fInvalAutofit unsigned short :1 When 1, TAP is still valid, but autofit

properties aren't

empty unsigned short :3 Not used

fVert unsigned short :1 When 1, positioned in vertical text flow

pcVert unsigned short :2 Vertical position code. Specifies

coordinate frame to use when paragraphs
are absolutely positioned.
0 vertical position coordinates are
relative to margin
1 coordinates are relative to page
2 coordinates are relative to text. This
means: relative to where the next non-APO
text would have been placed if this APO did
not exist.
pcHorz unsigned short :2 Horizontal position code. Specifies
coordinate frame to use when paragraphs
are absolutely positioned.
0 horizontal position coordinates are
relative to column.
1 coordinates are relative to margin
2 coordinates are relative to page
empty unsigned short :8 Not used

dxaAbs long 4 Absolute horizontal position

dyaAbs long 4 Absolute vertical position

dxaFromText long 4 Left distance from surrounding text when

absolutely positioned

dyaFromText long 4 Top distance from surrounding text when

absolutely positioned
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Field Type Size Comments

istd short 2 Table style for the Table

dxaFromTextRight long 4 Right distance from surrounding text when

absolutely positioned

dyaFromTextBottom long 4 Bottom distance from surrounding text

when absolutely positioned

fBiDi uchar 1 When 1, table is right-to-left. Logical

right-to-left table: The CP stream of a
right-to-left table is meant to be displayed
from right to left. So for example the first
table cell is displayed on the right side of
the table instead of the left.
fRTL uchar 1 Word 2000 style right-to-left table. Visual
right-to-left table: The CP stream of a
right-to-left table is displayed from left to
right just as for a ―normal‖ table. So, the
text which is meant to be in the ―first‖
(rightmost) table cell must be placed in
the last table cell in the CP stream.
fNoAllowOverlap uchar 1 When set to 1, do not allow absolutely
positioned table to overlap with other
tables

fSpare uchar 1 Not used

grpfTap unsigned short 2 Used internally by Word

fFirstRow unsigned short :1 Used internally by Word: first row

fLastRow unsigned short :1 Used internally by Word: last row

fOutline unsigned short :1 Used internally by Word: row was cached

for outline mode

fOrigWordTableRules unsigned short :1 Used internally by Word: table combining

like Word 5.x for the Macintosh and
WinWord 1.x

fCellSpacing unsigned short :1 Used internally by Word: When set to 1

cell spacing is allowed

unused unsigned short :11 Not used

itcMac short 2 Count of cells defined for this row. itcMac

must be >= 0 and less than or equal to 64.

dxaAdjust long 4 Used internally by Word

dxaWebView long 4 Used internally by Word

dxaRTEWrapWidth long 4 Used internally by Word

dxaColWidthWwd long 4 Used internally by Word

pctWwd short 2 Used internally by Word: percent of

Window size for AutoFit in WebView

fWrapToWwd unsigned short :1 Used internally by Word: Wrap to window

is on when set to 1
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Field Type Size Comments

istd short 2 Table style for the Table

fNotPageView unsigned short :1 Used internally by Word: when set to 1 we

are not in Page View

unused unsigned short :1 Not used

fWebView unsigned short :1 Used internally by Word: Web View is on

when set to 1

fAdjusted unsigned short :1 Used internally by Word

unused unsigned short :11 Not used

rgdxaCenter[itcMax+1] Short[itcMax+1] 130 rgdxaCenter[0] is the left boundary of

cell 0 measured relative to margin
rgdxaCenter[tap.itcMac - 1] is left
boundary of last cell
rgdxaCenter[tap.itcMac] is right
boundary of last cell.
rgdxaCenterPrint[itcMax+1] short[itcMax+1] 130 Used internally by Word

shdTable SHD 10 Table shading

rgbrcTable[ibrcTableMax] BRC[ibrcTableMax] 48 Array of borders; ibrcTableMax==6

mpibrcwCellPaddingDefault[cbrcTc] short 8 Array of default cell margins. Index into

the next four properties.

wCellPaddingDefaultTop short 2 Default left cell margin/padding

wCellPaddingDefaultLeft short 2 Default top cell margin/padding

wCellPaddingDefaultBottom short 2 Default Bottom cell margin/padding

wCellPaddingDefaultRight short 2 Default right cell margin/padding

mpibrcftsCellPaddingDefault[cbrcTc] uchar 4 Array of default cell margin units. Index

into the next four properties

ftsCellPaddingDefaultTop uchar 1 Default left cell margin/padding units:

0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellPaddingDefaultLeft uchar 1 Default top cell margin/padding units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellPaddingDefaultBottom uchar 1 Default bottom cell margin/padding units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellPaddingDefaultRight uchar 1 Default right cell margin/padding units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
mpibrcwCellSpacingDefault[cbrcTc] short 8 Array of default cell spacing. Index into
the next four properties

wCellSpacingDefaultTop short 2 Default left cell spacing

wCellSpacingDefaultLeft short 2 Default top cell spacing

wCellSpacingDefaultBottom short 2 Default Bottom cell spacing

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Field Type Size Comments

istd short 2 Table style for the Table

wCellSpacingDefaultRight short 2 Default right cell spacing

mpibrcftsCellSpacingDefault[cbrcTc] uchar 4 Array of default cell spacing units. Index

into the next four properties

ftsCellSpacingDefaultTop uchar 1 Default left cell spacing units:

0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellSpacingDefaultLeft uchar 1 Default top cell spacing units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellSpacingDefaultBottom uchar 1 Default bottom cell spacing units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellSpacingDefaultRight uchar 1 Default right cell spacing units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
mpibrcwCellPaddingOuter[cbrcTc] short 8 Array of default outer cell margins. Index
into the next four properties.

wCellPaddingOuterTop short 2 Default outer left cell margin/padding

wCellPaddingOuterLeft short 2 Default outer top cell margin/padding

wCellPaddingOuterBottom short 2 Default outer bottom cell margin/padding

wCellPaddingOuterRight short 2 Default outer right cell margin/padding

mpibrcftsCellPaddingOuter[cbrcTc] uchar 4 Array of default outer cell margin units

ftsCellPaddingOuterTop uchar 1 Default outer left cell margin/padding

units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellPaddingOuterLeft uchar 1 Default outer top cell margin/padding
units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellPaddingOuterBottom uchar 1 Default outer bottom cell margin/padding
units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellPaddingOuterRight uchar 1 Default outer right cell margin/padding
units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
mpibrcwCellSpacingOuter[cbrcTc] short 8 Array of default outer cell spacing. Index
into the next four properties.

wCellSpacingOuterTop short 2 Default outer left cell spacing

wCellSpacingOuterLeft short 2 Default outer top cell spacing

wCellSpacingOuterBottom short 2 Default outer Bottom cell spacing

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Field Type Size Comments

istd short 2 Table style for the Table

wCellSpacingOuterRight short 2 Default outer right cell spacing

mpibrcftsCellSpacingOuter[cbrcTc] uchar 4 Array of default outer cell spacing units.

Index into the next four properties.

ftsCellSpacingOuterTop uchar 1 Default outer left cell spacing units:

0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellSpacingOuterLeft uchar 1 Default outer top cell spacing units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellSpacingOuterBottom uchar 1 Default outer bottom cell spacing units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
ftsCellSpacingOuterRight uchar 1 Default outer right cell spacing units:
0 Null
1–2 Not relevant
3 Twips
rgtc[itcMax] TC[itcMax] 6144 Array of table cells descriptors (TCs);
itcMax = 64

rgshd SHD80[itcMax] Array of cell shades. Only applies to Word

97. In Word 2000 and later versions, table
shades are stored inside the TC structures
in rgtc[].

fPropRMark uchar 1 Set to 1 if property revision

ibstPropRMark IBST 2 Index to author table for property change

dttmPropRMark DTTM 4 Date/Time of property change

fHasOldProps uchar 1 Has old properties

ipgp uns long 4 HTML DIV ID for this table

hplcnf HPL 4 Pointer to conditional table properties

rsid RSID 4 Save ID for last time this TAP was revised

tcDefault TC This TC is only used in styles; at style

apply time, its values will get propagated
to the appropriate rgtc locations

cHorzBands uns char 1 Size of each horizontal style band, in

number of rows

cVertBands uns char 1 Size of a vertical style band, in number of

columns

shdTableDef SHD 10 Default shading for the table

rgbrcInsideDefault[0] BRC 8 Border definition for inside horizontal

borders

rgbrcInsideDefault[1] BRC 8 Border definition for inside vertical borders

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TeXtBoX Story (FTXBXS)

b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 cTxbx long When not fReusable, counts the number of

textboxes in this story chain

0 0 iNextReuse long When fReusable, the index of the next in the

linked list of reusable FTXBXSs

4 4 cReusable long If fReusable, counts the number of reusable

FTXBXSs follow this one in the linked list

8 8 fReusable short This FTXBXS is not currently in use

10 A long Reserved

14 E lid long Shape identifier (see FSPA) for first Office

shape in textbox chain.

18 12 txidUndo long

cbFTXBXS (count of bytes of FTXBXS) is 22 (decimal), 16 (hex).

WorK Book (WKB)
b10 b16 Field Type Size Bitfield Comments

0 0 fn short

2 2 grfwkb uns short

4 4 lvl short

6 6 fnpt short :4 000F

fnpd short :12 FFF0

8 8 doc long Unused

cbWKB (count of bytes of WKB) is 12 (decimal), C (hex).

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Information Rights Management (IRM)

Rights Management protected documents are encrypted in the same way that OfficeXP
documents are encrypted using a password.
This means:
 The macro streams in the document are not encrypted
 The Document Summary Information stream is not encrypted
Rights Management protected documents are in essence two documents in one. One is a
traditional backwards-compatible document consisting of fixed text informing the reader that
they need a later version of Office to access the protected content. This is stored as text and
an image in the ―Data‖ stream, where unprotected document content would otherwise be
stored. The other, not previously found in Office documents, is an encrypted copy of the
document content, along with new information required to support IRM protection. The details
of the differences are discussed in the sections that follow. An overview of Information rights
Management can be found at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/4/2/a4262821-6f21-450f-85d3-ebbba001a6ef/
How%20to%20Use%20Information%20Rights%20Management.doc.

DataSpaces
Every rights managed file contains a new storage named ―\006DataSpaces‖ which contains
meta information used to help manage the process of protecting the content within the
document.More information can be found at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767782(VS.85).aspx. The most important
content in this storage is the information under the ―TransformInfo‖ storage. This storage
contains the issuance licenses and end-user licenses required to protect and open a rights
managed file.

DRMContent
The new stream named ―\011DRMContent‖ contains the encrypted binary content of the Word
document. The format of this stream contains a series of encrypted bytes. When you decrypt
the whole stream and open the resultant byte stream as a compound storage, then that
storage will contain all streams and substorages that are found in a normal Word document,
using the exact same binary file format as a non-IRM-protected Word file. Only the encrypted
streams are located inside of this storage. The unencrypted streams (for example Document
Summary Information and the macro stream in Word and Microsoft Office Excel®) are not
stored inside this storage. They are found unencrypted off of the root of the document‘s
storage.

DRMViewerContent
The final new stream that may exist within an IRM-protected file is the optional
―\011DRMViewerContent‖ stream which contains a compressed, encrypted MHTML stream for
users of the Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer. This is the option for users who
need to see IRM protected content but do not have access to an IRM enabled Office client.
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Appendix A - Reading a Macintosh PICT

Graphic
As described under ―picture‖ in the Definition section of this document, some pictures in Word
documents are stored as Macintosh PICT graphics, particularly in files created by Word for the
Macintosh. All pictures, including these, are stored as a block of binary data attached to a
special chPic character in the text stream. This block always begins with a PIC structure.
(Please see the ―picture‖ definition mentioned above for more information on general
picture-reading.)
Normal graphics follow the PIC structure with a single Office shape, Windows metafile,
bitmap, or TIFF representation, as described in the ―picture‖ definition section. Macintosh PICT
graphics have a standard, unchanging Windows metafile after the PIC which always depicts an
―x‖, followed by the actual Macintosh PICT picture. This is for backward-compatibility with
older readers, which expect to find a Windows metafile after the PIC structure. These readers
will simply display the fixed ―x‖ image. In the Macintosh PICT case, the PIC structure‘s lcb
field represents the size of the entire picture data block, including the PIC itself, the ―x‖
metafile and the Macintosh PICT data. (see the description of the PIC structure in the
Structure Definitions section of this document.)
To distinguish between normal and Macintosh PICT graphics, a reader needs to detect the
presence of the special ―x‖ metafile. The bytes below are in an early portion of the ―x‖ metafile.
unsigned char rgbWmfXBegin[] =
{
'\x14', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x26', '\x06', '\x0F', '\x00', '\x1E', '\x00',
'\xFF', '\xFF', '\xFF', '\xFF', '\x04', '\x00', '\x14', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00',
'\x57', '\x6F', '\x72', '\x64', '\x0E', '\x00', '\x4D', '\x69', '\x63', '\x72',
'\x6F', '\x73', '\x6F', '\x66', '\x74', '\x20', '\x57', '\x6F', '\x72', '\x64',
'\x0E', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x26', '\x06', '\x0F', '\x00', '\x12', '\x00',
'\x57', '\x6F', '\x72', '\x64', '\xFF', '\xFF', '\x08', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00'

/* “x” wmf and PICT data sizes immediately follow as 2 four-byte longs */
};

#define cbMETAHDR 18 // size of a standard Windows metafile header

#define cbWmfXBegin 60 // length of this beginning section of the x metafile

After reading the PIC structure from the picture data block, the reader should skip cbMETAHDR
bytes (the size of a standard Windows metafile header). It should then compare the next
cbWmfXBegin bytes in the picture data block against the bytes in the rgbWmfXBegin array
above. If they do not match, the picture is a normal picture—Windows metafile, bitmap or
TIFF.
If they do match, then the reader should read the next 8 bytes in the picture data block as two
4-byte ―long‖s (Intel 80x86 byte order). These numbers are the sizes (in bytes) of the ―x‖
metafile and the Macintosh PICT data, respectively. The size of the ―x‖ metafile is measured
from its start immediately after the PIC structure. It is possible for the PICT‘s size to be zero.
In this case, there is no PICT data, and the reader may use the ―x‖ Windows metafile as the
picture‘s representation.
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Appendix B – Calculation of font (FTC) and

language (LID)
Certain Unicode characters are shared between East Asian and non-East Asian scripts
requiring the calculation of font and language, based on the Unicode character code and the
chp.idctHint property.
Characters are classified into one of four groups, ASCII, East Asian, floating, and non-East
Asian. Properties are calculated as follows:
Character type Font (ftc) Language (lid)

ASCII sprmCRgftc0 sprmCRglid0

non-East Asian sprmCRgftc2 sprmCRglid0

East Asian sprmCRgftc1 sprmCRglid1

shared character sprmCRgftc2 if chp.idctHint==0 sprmCRglid0 if chp.idctHint==0

sprmCRgftc1 if chp.idctHint==1 sprmCRglid1 if chp.idctHint==1

The table below defines the classification of various ranges of Unicode characters:
Unicode subrange Character range Classification

usrBasicLatin 0x20->0x7f ASCII

usrLatin1 0xa0->0xff Some shared (see notes below)

usrLatinXA 0x100->0x17f Some shared (see notes below)

usrLatinXB 0x180->0x24f Some shared (see notes below)

usrIPAExtensions 0x250->0x2af Some shared (see notes below)

usrSpacingModLetters 0x2b0->0x2ff Shared

usrCombDiacritical 0x300->0x36f Shared

usrBasicGreek 0x370->0x3cf Shared

usrGreekSymbolsCop 0x3d0->0x3ff Non-East Asian

usrCyrillic 0x400->0x4ff Shared

usrArmenian 0x500->0x58f Non-East Asian

usrBasicHebrew 0x5d0->0x5ff Non-East Asian

usrHebrewXA 0x590->0x5cf Non-East Asian

usrBasicArabic 0x600->0x652 Non-East Asian

usrArabicX 0x653->0x6ff Non-East Asian

usrDevangari 0x900->0x97f Non-East Asian

usrBengali 0x980->0x9ff Non-East Asian

usrGurmukhi 0xa00->0xa7f Non-East Asian

usrGujarati 0xa80->0xaff Non-East Asian

usrOriya 0xb00->0xb7f Non-East Asian

usrTamil 0x0b80->0x0bff Non-East Asian

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Unicode subrange Character range Classification

usrTelugu 0x0c00->0x0c7f Non-East Asian

usrKannada 0x0c80->0x0cff Non-East Asian

usrMalayalam 0x0d00->0x0d7f Non-East Asian

usrThai 0x0e00->0x0e7f Non-East Asian

usrLao 0x0e80->0x0eff Non-East Asian

usrBasicGeorgian 0x10d0->0x10ff Non-East Asian

usrGeorgianExtended 0x10a0->0x10cf Non-East Asian

usrHangulJamo 0x1100->0x11ff Non-East Asian

usrLatinExtendedAdd 0x1e00->0x1eff Shared

usrGreekExtended 0x1f00->0x1fff Non-East Asian

usrGeneralPunct 0x2000->0x206f Shared

usrSuperAndSubscript 0x2070->0x209f Shared

usrCurrencySymbols 0x20a0->0x20cf Shared

usrCombDiacriticsS 0x20d0->0x20ff Shared

usrLetterlikeSymbols 0x2100->0x214f Shared

usrNumberForms 0x2150->0x218f Shared

usrArrows 0x2190->0x21ff Shared

usrMathematicalOps 0x2200->0x22ff Shared

usrMiscTechnical 0x2300->0x23ff Shared

usrControlPictures 0x2400->0x243f Shared

usrOpticalCharRecog 0x2440->0x245f Shared

usrEnclosedAlphanum 0x2460->0x24ff Shared

usrBoxDrawing 0x2500->0x257f Shared

usrBlockElements 0x2580->0x259f Shared

usrGeometricShapes 0x25a0->0x25ff Shared

usrMiscDingbats 0x2600->0x26ff Shared

usrDingbats 0x2700->0x27bf Shared

usrCJKSymAndPunct 0x3000->0x303f East Asian

usrHiragana 0x3040->0x309f East Asian

usrKatakana 0x30a0->0x30ff East Asian

usrBopomofo 0x3100->0x312f East Asian

usrHangulCompatJamo 0x3130->0x318f East Asian

usrCJKMisc 0x3190->0x319f East Asian

usrEnclosedCJKLtMnth 0x3200->0x32ff East Asian

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Unicode subrange Character range Classification

usrCJKCompatibility 0x3300->0x33ff East Asian

0x4a00->0x4dff

usrCJKUnifiedIdeo 0x4e00->0x9fff East Asian

usrHangul 0xac00->0xd7a3 East Asian

usrReserved1 0xd800

usrReserved2

usrPrivateUseArea 0xe000->0xf8ff Shared

usrCJKCompatibilityIdeographs 0xf900->0xfaff East Asian

usrAlphaPresentationForms 0xfb00->0xfb4f Shared

usrArabicPresentationFormsA 0xfb50->0xfdff Shared

usrCombiningHalfMarks 0xfe20->0xfe2f East Asian

usrCJKCompatForms 0xfe30->0xfe4f East Asian

usrSmallFormVariants 0xfe50->0xfe6f East Asian

usrArabicPresentationFormsB 0xfe70->0xfefe Shared

usrHFWidthForms 0xff00->0xffef East Asian

usrSpecials 0xfff0->0xfffd Non-East Asian

The table below describes the behavior of the Unicode subrange usrLatin1. Shared
characters are marked in this table with a 1, while characters marked with a 0 are considered
―non-East Asian‖. All other characters in this Unicode subrange are considered ―non-East
Asian‖.
// 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, // 0x00a0-0x00af
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, // 0x00b0-0x00bf
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x00c0-0x00cf
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x00d0-0x00df
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x00e0-0x00ef
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x00f0-0x00ff
};

The table below describes the behavior of the Unicode range usrLatinXA. Shared characters
are marked in this table with a 1, while characters marked with a 0 are considered ―non-East
Asian‖. All other characters in this Unicode subrange are considered ―non-East Asian‖.
// 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x0100-0x010f
0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x0110-0x011f
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x0120-0x012f
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x0130-0x013f
0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, // 0x0140-0x014f
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x0150-0x015f
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x0160-0x016f
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In usrLatinXB shared characters are 0x192, 0x1FA, 0x1FB, 0x1FC, 0x1FD, 0x1FE and
0x1FF. All other characters in this Unicode subrange are considered ―non-East Asian‖.
In usrIPAExtensions shared characters are 0x251, and 0x261.
An optimization is available. If the East Asian font chp.ftcFE=0 and chp.idctHint=0 and
chp.ftcAscii=chp.ftcOther, the font is chp.ftcAscii and the language is
chp.lidDefault.