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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Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2013-01-16T19:38:03+00:00

Since the behavior is different with different file formats (as others have reported), I suspect we won't see a change. <sigh> But I am not giving up hope just yet...

Feel free to post a suggestion to Office feedback. I haven't found a similar link for Office 2013 yet, but these are for Office 2007/2010: http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Office/feedback.aspx?formID=375 and https://feedback.office.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scrx=1.
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Anonymous

2013-01-19T19:05:01+00:00

Hi all, I am finding this very annoying. The text boundaries were a very simple way to frame the page so I could tell where my text was and how best to format items. It also breaks up the blank page look. It now seems to do something completely different. How best to get Microsoft to change this - or at least add a switch to turn this back on?

Grrr!

Daz
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Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2013-01-19T23:02:56+00:00

Try the feedback links I posted earlier this month.
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Anonymous

2013-01-25T12:32:35+00:00

Those links are for previous versions of Office!!

Wow Microsoft, you blew it again!!!

How the **** did you change this?!?!

When we write a letter with a pen, on a plain A4 white paper, as we write paragraphs, we don't see those imaginary lines that you are trying to force us to see them.

This is ridiculous!!! And I don't understand why practically no one talks about this...

This hurts the eyes when looking to it!!! Remove this behavior M$ !!!!
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