How to display margins in Word 2013

Anonymous
2013-01-31T16:21:55+00:00

I just upgraded from Word 2007 to Word 2013.  In the 2007 version, I could display the margins but I haven't been able to find how to do that in Word 2013.  Does anyone know?  Clicking on "show text boundaries" seems to put a lot of lines in the document only.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-20T22:07:23+00:00

    Maybe you're looking for..  View -> Ruler?  This helped me while trying to center a picture and creating tabs.  Click the View tab and check the Ruler box.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-10-10T09:01:07+00:00

    Could it be you are looking for File menu > Options command > Advanced option > Show Document Content section. Turn ON "Show Text Boundaries".

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  3. Luc Sanders 48,525 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2013-01-31T17:21:06+00:00

    Thomas,

    Could it be you activated the grid instead? On the View tab you could correct that.

    Have not got Office 2013 yet, but read this thread:

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_2013\_release-word/how-to-expand-text-boundaries-in-word-2013/bac7738a-7566-4b23-9fb8-d3156fca2c3b?page=2

    If it is by design or a bug...

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-10-10T04:27:16+00:00

    No I believe he did show text boundaries. Text boundaries in 2013 shows dotted lines in between paras as well.

    What he wants to do is just see the margins only- what I want to do too, and I can't find out how either.

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  5. Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-11-24T15:15:47+00:00

    Go to view option on the top of the page and click on show ruler 

    Thank you for contributing. You are talking about something different from what the original poster asked about.

    The rulers do display where margins are, but are not a satisfactory substitute for the traditional text boundaries. Prior to Word 2013, these provided a box around each page at the margin. Word 2013-2016 do not.

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