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
    2013-02-20T10:20:50+00:00

    Hi, everyone.

    I can share a trick with you.

    You can temporarily kind of enable text boundaries the old way: you can place page borders around the text.

    It's in Design tab, last icon to the right.

    Choose border settings, add style, and look in the options for a "measure from" drop-down.

    If you choose "Text" in "measure from" drop-down, and then press all of the OKs out there, you will have something like an old-styled text boundaries in MS Word-2013.

    Unfortunately, this border is going to stay, and will be printed when you print or export to PDF.

    So if you don't want it in the final document, you have to disable border before your final save.

    Hope this will help some of you out there.

    Good luck!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-15T01:47:55+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:

    1. Change Save As to the .DOC format (2003 Compatibility Mode)
    2. Change margins, etc. to be what you want as your default New document format.
    3. 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:

    1. 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....

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-11T06:52:03+00:00

    Back to Your Old word Template (2010)

    Close your Word 2013

    Search at windows 7 explorer:

    C:\Users[Administrator or maybe your name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates

    rename Normal.dotm Word 2013 [ex: Normal.dotm.bak.orig]

    Download this file Normal.dotm

    Copy  file Normal.dotm word 2010 to directory/folder.

    Done.. then check your word 2013

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2012-12-01T20:51:49+00:00

    I was afraid of that. That really stinks!

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