List of applications and their recommended formatting options Recommended formatting options for one application Module of the application Writer module Add spacing between paragraphs and tables true Add paragraph and table spacing at top of first page and page breaks true Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 tabstop formatting false Do not add leading (extra space) between lines of text false Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 line spacing false Add paragraph and table spacing at bottom of table cells true Add paragraph line spacing at bottom of table cells true Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 object positioning false Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 text wrapping false Consider wrapping style when positioning objects false Expand word space on lines with manual line breaks in justified paragraphs true Protect form false Word-compatible trailing blanks false Tolerate white lines of PDF page backgrounds for compatibility with old documents (Use LibreOffice 4.3 anchoring paint order) false Hide paragraphs of database fields (e.g., mail merge) with an empty value true Render NBSP as having variable size, instead of having a fixed size false The List of the applications. Compatibility options affecting GUI Specifies whether Form menu should be customized for an MSO workflow. The MS compatible Form menu contains only MS compatible form controls. Reorganize Form menu for Microsoft compatibility. false Specifies whether adding comments to footnotes etc. is allowed. These are allowed for ODF but not in OOXML and can result in invalid docx files being saved. Allow adding comments to footnotes, headers and frames. Disable for better OOXML interoperability. true Specifies the data series order of filled net and normal area charts. Reverse the data series order of filled net and normal area charts. Disable for better OOXML interoperability. true Specifies the X axis orientation of doughnut charts. Reverse the X axis orientation of doughnut charts. Disable for better OOXML interoperability. true Specifies whether the default orientation of pie charts should be clockwise. In OOXML-heavy environments it might be confusing to see charts being mirrored after save, avoid that by setting this key to true. Pie chart default orientation. Set to true for more OOXML-ish UX. false