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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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Try again. Note that the code:
ActiveDocument.SetCompatibilityMode wdWord2010
must be typed exactly as shown (no additional spaces or line breaks), and then you press Enter at the end of the line.
I don't know if 64 bit Office makes a difference, but I suppose it could...
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Press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to activate the Immediate window. Type
ActiveDocument.SetCompatibilityMode wdWord2010
and press Enter. **
>JIM 1957
Looking forward to this, however, I get a "runtime error "438"
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I tried this and it worked fine. Thank you Stefan.
Jim, are you by chance running the 64-bit version of Office?
Note that you don't have to save in *.doc format. Setting compatibility to Word 2010 will suffice. However, doing so requires a trick.
Here's how to do it: Make sure the document that you want to change is the active document in Word. Press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to activate the Immediate window. Type
ActiveDocument.SetCompatibilityMode wdWord2010
and press Enter. Close the Visual Basic Editor and click File | Options. In the Advanced category, scroll down to the bottom where you will now see the list of layout/compatibility options. For "Lay out this document as if created in," select Word 2010. Click OK to close the dialog box and then save the document.
Everything, including text boundaries, will work the way it did in Word 2010.
Looking forward to this, however, I get a "runtime error "438"
HELP
Note that you don't have to save in *.doc format. Setting compatibility to Word 2010 will suffice. However, doing so requires a trick.
Here's how to do it: Make sure the document that you want to change is the active document in Word. Press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to activate the Immediate window. Type
ActiveDocument.SetCompatibilityMode wdWord2010
and press Enter. Close the Visual Basic Editor and click File | Options. In the Advanced category, scroll down to the bottom where you will now see the list of layout/compatibility options. For "Lay out this document as if created in," select Word 2010. Click OK to close the dialog box and then save the document.
Everything, including text boundaries, will work the way it did in Word 2010.
Given what the Office team has said about text boundaries (see Suzanne's reply), it's unlikely that the feature will ever be restored. My guess is that the option to display them will be removed from the Options dialog box.
Just to be clear, I'm hoping that I'm wrong and that the feature will be restored.
Therefore I recommend that you post a suggestion to bring back (useful) text boundaries here: