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. Jay Freedman 208.2K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2015-04-29T00:32:49+00:00

    One more suggestion, for positioning text boxes or pictures with respect to the column boundaries: On the Page Layout tab, click the Align button and make sure "Use Alignment Guides" is checked. Then, as you drag a floating object left or right, a vertical green line will appear when one of its sides coincides with a column margin. Also, a horizontal green line will appear when the top of the object matches the top of a paragraph of text.

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  2. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-04-28T18:44:10+00:00

    To add to what Charles suggested, some people like to display crop marks as well (File | Options | Advanced: "Show crop marks").

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  3. Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2015-04-28T16:45:20+00:00

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    Now if someone could tell me the "work around" for newspaper colunns, that would help.

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    View rulers helps, as does viewing non-printing formatting  marks.

    Showing non-printing formatting marks in Microsoft Word

    Text Boundaries Display in Microsoft Word

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-04-28T02:07:49+00:00

    As a computer programmer, I was taught to categorize a part of a program that did something inadvertent or unintentional as a "bug".  And calling something a bug (in my book) is synonymous with saying that the program is broken.  Broken does not mean that the program has to crash/abend, just that it simply is not giving the desired result. 

    I think we are generally in the same ball park.

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  5. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-04-28T01:35:14+00:00

    There's a difference between something that was inadvertent or unintentional to begin with or "a mistake" and something that was "broken."

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