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
    2014-03-18T02:21:55+00:00

    I have same trouble with Text Boundaries...

    Crop Mark Really helpful..

    thank :D

    but .. I turn off Crop Mark after found this solution :) ▼

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    Solution to bring back old text boundaries is :

    replace normal.dotm in "C:\Users"your Username"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates" with normal.dotm what I got from office 2010

    *backup with rename your original normal.dotm

    ###download normal.dotm from office 2010 HERE

    Hope this will help.. :)

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  2. Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2014-03-24T14:04:22+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.

    I do not think this is the same level of feedback as the two listed, but it is for Office 2013:

    http://o15.officeredir.microsoft.com/r/rlidOOFeedback?clid=1033&origin=HA102809597&CTT=114

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  3. Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-03-24T14:31:07+00:00

    As far as I can tell, that link is for feedback on the Office site only.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-04-01T23:15:24+00:00

    Solution to bring back old text boundaries is :

    replace normal.dotm in "C:\Users"your Username"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates" with normal.dotm what I got from office 2010

    *backup with rename your original normal.dotm

    Brilliant.  Thank you so very much.

    David

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