diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7dc8b458..51f92434 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ This is the last version to support PHP 5.3
 - Padded the $args array to remove error - @kaigoh #1150, @reformed #870
 - Fix incorrect image size between windows and mac - @bskrtich #874
 - Fix adding HTML table to document - @mogilvie @arivanbastos #324
+- Fix parsing on/off values (w:val="true|false|1|0|on|off") - @troosan #1221 #1219
 
 ### Deprecated
 - PhpWord->getProtection(), get it from the settings instead PhpWord->getSettings()->getDocumentProtection();
diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Element/Comment.php b/src/PhpWord/Element/Comment.php
index 908b8785..18836929 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Element/Comment.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Element/Comment.php
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ namespace PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element;
 
 /**
  * Comment element
+ * @see http://datypic.com/sc/ooxml/t-w_CT_Comment.html
  */
 class Comment extends TrackChange
 {
diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Element/TrackChange.php b/src/PhpWord/Element/TrackChange.php
index 9ed623f9..d14fc201 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Element/TrackChange.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Element/TrackChange.php
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ namespace PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element;
 
 /**
  * TrackChange element
+ * @see http://datypic.com/sc/ooxml/t-w_CT_TrackChange.html
  */
 class TrackChange extends AbstractContainer
 {
diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Reader/Word2007/AbstractPart.php b/src/PhpWord/Reader/Word2007/AbstractPart.php
index 521c8a7f..6a48fd46 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Reader/Word2007/AbstractPart.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Reader/Word2007/AbstractPart.php
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ abstract class AbstractPart
                 // $rIdIcon = $xmlReader->getAttribute('r:id', $domNode, 'w:object/v:shape/v:imagedata');
                 $target = $this->getMediaTarget($docPart, $rId);
                 if (!is_null($target)) {
-                    $textContent = "<Object: {$target}>";
+                    $textContent = "&lt;Object: {$target}>";
                     $parent->addText($textContent, $fontStyle, $paragraphStyle);
                 }
             } else {
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ abstract class AbstractPart
     {
         $style = null;
         $margins = array('top', 'left', 'bottom', 'right');
-        $borders = $margins + array('insideH', 'insideV');
+        $borders = array_merge($margins, array('insideH', 'insideV'));
 
         if ($xmlReader->elementExists('w:tblPr', $domNode)) {
             if ($xmlReader->elementExists('w:tblPr/w:tblStyle', $domNode)) {
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ abstract class AbstractPart
             'textDirection' => array(self::READ_VALUE, 'w:textDirection'),
             'gridSpan'      => array(self::READ_VALUE, 'w:gridSpan'),
             'vMerge'        => array(self::READ_VALUE, 'w:vMerge'),
-            'bgColor'       => array(self::READ_VALUE, 'w:shd/w:fill'),
+            'bgColor'       => array(self::READ_VALUE, 'w:shd', 'w:fill'),
         );
 
         return $this->readStyleDefs($xmlReader, $domNode, $styleDefs);
@@ -477,9 +477,9 @@ abstract class AbstractPart
         if (self::READ_SIZE == $method) {
             $style = $attributeValue / 2;
         } elseif (self::READ_TRUE == $method) {
-            $style = true;
+            $style = $this->isOn($attributeValue);
         } elseif (self::READ_FALSE == $method) {
-            $style = false;
+            $style = !$this->isOn($attributeValue);
         } elseif (self::READ_EQUAL == $method) {
             $style = $attributeValue == $expected;
         }
@@ -487,6 +487,18 @@ abstract class AbstractPart
         return $style;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Parses the value of the on/off value, null is considered true as it means the w:val attribute was not present
+     *
+     * @see http://www.datypic.com/sc/ooxml/t-w_ST_OnOff.html
+     * @param string $value
+     * @return bool
+     */
+    private function isOn($value = null)
+    {
+        return $value == null || $value == '1' || $value == 'true' || $value == 'on';
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns the target of image, object, or link as stored in ::readMainRels
      *
diff --git a/tests/PhpWord/Reader/Word2007Test.php b/tests/PhpWord/Reader/Word2007Test.php
index 8b787247..9a555672 100644
--- a/tests/PhpWord/Reader/Word2007Test.php
+++ b/tests/PhpWord/Reader/Word2007Test.php
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 namespace PhpOffice\PhpWord\Reader;
 
 use PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory;
+use PhpOffice\PhpWord\TestHelperDOCX;
 
 /**
  * Test class for PhpOffice\PhpWord\Reader\Word2007
@@ -54,6 +55,13 @@ class Word2007Test extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase
     {
         $filename = __DIR__ . '/../_files/documents/reader.docx';
         $phpWord = IOFactory::load($filename);
+
         $this->assertInstanceOf('PhpOffice\\PhpWord\\PhpWord', $phpWord);
+        $this->assertTrue($phpWord->getSettings()->hasDoNotTrackMoves());
+        $this->assertFalse($phpWord->getSettings()->hasDoNotTrackFormatting());
+        $this->assertEquals(100, $phpWord->getSettings()->getZoom());
+
+        $doc = TestHelperDOCX::getDocument($phpWord);
+        $this->assertFalse($doc->elementExists('/w:document/w:body/w:p/w:r[w:t/node()="italics"]/w:rPr/w:b'));
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/PhpWord/_files/documents/reader.docx b/tests/PhpWord/_files/documents/reader.docx
index ef6b6615..65c761e0 100644
Binary files a/tests/PhpWord/_files/documents/reader.docx and b/tests/PhpWord/_files/documents/reader.docx differ
diff --git a/tests/PhpWord/_includes/XmlDocument.php b/tests/PhpWord/_includes/XmlDocument.php
index c82c5a8e..21a12105 100644
--- a/tests/PhpWord/_includes/XmlDocument.php
+++ b/tests/PhpWord/_includes/XmlDocument.php
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ class XmlDocument
 
         if (null === $this->xpath) {
             $this->xpath = new \DOMXpath($this->dom);
+            $this->xpath->registerNamespace('w14', 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml');
         }
 
         return $this->xpath->query($path);