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?

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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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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2015-12-06T13:17:42+00:00

That is the method described for Word 2007 and above in the article Charles referenced. You were looking at instructions for Word 2003 and earlier.
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Anonymous

2015-12-06T10:08:04+00:00

" You can access the Organizer in one of two ways: from the Format menu, choose Style and click Organizer; or from the Tools menu, choose Templates and Add-Ins and click Organizer" -addbalance.com

But I couldn't find it, luckily I found it in Mansge Styles-> Import/Export -> Organizer appeared
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Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2015-12-06T03:20:58+00:00

You missed the main point. You can't replace the normal template with one of your own without damaging your Word installation.

Another way to transfer styles en masse is using the Organizer. It opens the normal template as a location to transfer to or from by default.
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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2015-12-06T03:10:26+00:00

All you have to do when you create a new style is select the radio button for "New documents based on this template," and the style will be saved to Normal.dotm. For other ways to customize Normal.dotm, see http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/CustomizeNormalTemplate.htm.
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