How to expand text boundaries in Word 2013?

Anonymous

Hello everyone!,

I was convinced by someone here to install office 2013, so I tried it today. But the first issue i meet is the "text boundaries".

In office 2010 and previous versions. When I open a blank page, I can see the text boundary is around page (reach the margin that I set up manually.)

But in Word 2013, the text boundary is only around the first line. and it expand continuously as I type (line by line).

So, what I can do to make the default boundary display like in previous Office versions?

...

oh yea, I got another problem, LOL,

I am trying to save the picture and upload, but when i click Save as in Paint, Snipping tool.. the app immediately crash LOL :))

Okay, I will add photo later (in case you are not fully understand my expression).

anyway, although my english is not really well, please help me. :)

Thanks so much !

Thinh

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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K MVP Volunteer Moderator

Unfortunately, that is the default view of text boundaries in Word 2013 (and cannot be changed AFAIK), which is one reason I will not be using Word 2013, as I refuse to either deal with that display or try to operate without text boundaries displayed. This is another instance of Word designers not understanding how people in the real world use Word.

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Anonymous

2015-05-29T12:25:12+00:00
Hi, Suzanne. I just finished days of Tier 2 support sessions on this text boundaries business (is it a bug, or a feature?). Finally, the developers/design team told us that it's a feature--at the request of users! When I asked them to show me an MS forum/blog showing those requests, they refused/couldn't come up with one ("only for developers"). The solution is clear:

Change Save As to the .DOC format (2003 Compatibility Mode)

Change margins, etc. to be what you want as your default New document format.

Right-click on the Normal template, click on Update to match selection.

From now on, all your documents will show the real text boundaries. And if you want at any time to check whether you're losing out on any DOCX features, then do the following:

Go to: File | Inspect Document | Check Compatibility, and the chances are that your use of Compatibility Mode isn't depriving you of any "new" features.

Thanks so much for MS developers, who can't distinguish between a feature and a bug....
Hi Suzanne, THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! Your tip was very helpful and it worked! :)
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Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2015-03-05T19:22:37+00:00

It isn't going to be corrected. MS does not see it as a problem. Stefan Blom provided a document-specific workaround in this thread on March 4, 2015. I've posted a Word 2013 template with this attribute set in the Templates and Documents section of my Downloads page. Documents created in Word 2013 using that template will display the full-page margins text boundaries. It has a read-me document that links back to the thread.
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Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2014-09-30T13:48:50+00:00

This will be more trouble than it is worth. If you use line breaks instead of paragraph marks, you will lose paragraph formatting, because the whole document will be treated as a single paragraph.
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Anonymous

2014-09-30T11:15:44+00:00

Wish you to note that this new? Boundaries are applied to the Paragraph.

Thus, you press

［Shift］+［Enter］

All thru the pages,

Then you can get page boundary automatically.

After you finish, you delete the rest of “In paragraph breaks”

That’s it!
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