do_not_display_page_boundaries property

ViewOptions.do_not_display_page_boundaries property

Turns off display of the space between the top of the text and the top edge of the page.

@property
def do_not_display_page_boundaries(self) -> bool:
    ...

@do_not_display_page_boundaries.setter
def do_not_display_page_boundaries(self, value: bool):
    ...

Examples

Shows how to hide vertical whitespace and headers/footers in view options.

doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.DocumentBuilder(doc)

# Insert content that spans across 3 pages.
builder.writeln("Paragraph 1, Page 1.")
builder.insert_break(aw.BreakType.PAGE_BREAK)
builder.writeln("Paragraph 2, Page 2.")
builder.insert_break(aw.BreakType.PAGE_BREAK)
builder.writeln("Paragraph 3, Page 3.")

# Insert a header and a footer.
builder.move_to_header_footer(aw.HeaderFooterType.HEADER_PRIMARY)
builder.writeln("This is the header.")
builder.move_to_header_footer(aw.HeaderFooterType.FOOTER_PRIMARY)
builder.writeln("This is the footer.")

# This document contains a small amount of content that takes up a few full pages worth of space.
# Set the "do_not_display_page_boundaries" flag to "True" to get older versions of Microsoft Word to omit headers,
# footers, and much of the vertical whitespace when displaying our document.
# Set the "do_not_display_page_boundaries" flag to "False" to get older versions of Microsoft Word
# to normally display our document.
doc.view_options.do_not_display_page_boundaries = do_not_display_page_boundaries

doc.save(ARTIFACTS_DIR + "ViewOptions.display_page_boundaries.doc")

do_not_display_page_boundaries property

ViewOptions.do_not_display_page_boundaries property

Examples

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