Editing Microsoft Word (section)

===Layout issues===
Before Word 2010 (Word 14) for Windows, the program was unable to correctly handle [[ligature (typography)|ligatures]] defined in [[OpenType]] fonts.<ref>[http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/what-s-new-in-word-2010-HA010372687.aspx What's new in Word 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035713/http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/what-s-new-in-word-2010-HA010372687.aspx |date=June 18, 2010 }}. Retrieved July 1, 2010.</ref> Those ligature glyphs with [[Unicode]] codepoints may be inserted manually, but are not recognized by Word for what they are, breaking spell checking, while custom ligatures present in the font are not accessible at all. Since Word 2010, the program now has advanced [[typesetting]] features which can be enabled,<ref>[http://jeffhuang.com/better_word_papers.html Improving the look of papers written in Microsoft Word] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526134119/http://jeffhuang.com/better_word_papers.html |date=May 26, 2010 }}. Retrieved May 30, 2010.</ref> [[OpenType]] ligatures,<ref>[http://www.orzeszek.org/blog/2009/05/17/how-to-enable-opentype-ligatures-in-word-2010/ How to Enable OpenType Ligatures in Word 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611050447/http://www.orzeszek.org/blog/2009/05/17/how-to-enable-opentype-ligatures-in-word-2010/ |date=June 11, 2009 }}, Oreszek Blog, May 17, 2009.</ref> [[kerning]] and [[Hyphenation algorithm|hyphenation]] (previous versions already had the latter two features). Other layout deficiencies of Word include the inability to set crop marks or thin spaces. Various third-party workaround utilities have been developed.<ref>Such as {{cite web |url=http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BlankPage.htm |title=How to delete a blank page in Word |publisher=Sbarnhill.mvps.org |access-date=June 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505105925/http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BlankPage.htm |archive-date=May 5, 2010 }}</ref>

In Word 2004 for Mac OS X, support of [[complex scripts]] was inferior even to Word 97<ref>{{cite web|title=Unicode and Multilingual Editors and Word Processors for Mac OS X|url=http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_editors_macosx.html|author=Alan Wood|access-date=December 3, 2013|archive-date=January 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114080658/http://alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_editors_macosx.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and Word 2004 did not support [[Apple Advanced Typography]] features like ligatures or glyph variants.<ref>{{cite web |last=Neuburg |first=Matt |url=http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07715 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708192529/http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07715 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 8, 2012 |title=TidBITS : Word Up! Word 2004, That Is |publisher=Db.tidbits.com |date=May 19, 2004 |access-date=June 21, 2010 }}</ref>