| Features | Word 8 (Office 97) | MSWordView |
| General | ----- | ----- |
| Fastsave support | Y | Y |
| Character Attributes | ----- | ----- |
| Colored Text | Y | Y |
| Font Face | Y | Y[1] |
| Font Size | Y | Y |
| Italic | Y | Y |
| Bold | Y | Y |
| Single Underline | Y | Y |
| Word Underline | Y | Y |
| All other underline types | Y[2] | Y[2] |
| strikethrough | N | Y[3] |
| double strikethrough | N | Y[3] |
| SuperScript | Y | Y |
| SubScript | Y | Y |
| Small Caps | Y[1] | |
| All Caps | Y[1] |
