How to expand text boundaries in Word 2013?

Anonymous
2012-11-30T16:32:09+00:00

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

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows

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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2012-12-01T14:13:25+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-06T02:32:23+00:00

    Thank you but I want all new documents to include my custom styles. I have about 10 custom styles and I'm lazy to customize normal template again.

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  2. Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-12-06T02:17:33+00:00

    For that purpose, just save a custom template with your styles under any (useful) name other than Normal.dotm. Use the  custom template to create documents with the desired formatting.

    Again, Normal.dotm should be left alone. Customizing it is OK, but not replacing it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-06T01:54:04+00:00

    I did it because I wanted default boundary back and Compability mode above gone while keeping my custom styles

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-06T01:49:42+00:00

    Yeah, that was my misktake. I knew normal template is Normal.dotm but I typed it incorrecly.

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