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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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Go to http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries and vote for Suzanne's suggestion.
Why is everyone else being so dense about this question?
We want to display the margins, not the text boundary, not the ruler, which are both very easy to find. Removing this feature, or making it hard to find, would be a major blunder by MS. They couldn't say more loudly that they do not care about their product or their customer.
Sorry, "everyone" on this forum is not being "dense" about the question. The "dense" entity is MS.
Repeating the answer that has already been provided, Word 2013 (and later) no longer offers the option to display "margins". As far as MS is concerned, the way text boundaries/margins were displayed in Word 2010 (and earlier) was "wrong". The official position is that they "fixed the problem" (as they saw it) giving us the carpy display in 2013/2016. Sorry that is not the answer you (and everyone else) wants to hear.
MS does "care" about their products. But what is important to MS is maintaining income from the products, aka new sales, rather than the actual quality or usability of the product.
Yes, MS has consistently shown they don't care about their existing customer base. My guess is that they are assuming that like drug users we are so thoroughly "addicted" to their product that people will not switch to the alternative programs. The change from menu's to the "ribbon" was entirely driven by desire to make the programs "easier" for "new" customers, and assumed that existing users would "adapt" to the "improvement". The same thing applies to the move from the Windows "desktop" to what used to be called the "Metro" user interface with it's clunky tiles in Windows 8/10
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Mailing labels are tables; display table gridlines to see the cell boundaries.
For the rest, I totally agree. Go to http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries and vote for my "suggestion."
In Office 2013 the item is under File, Opetions Advanced as is called "Text Boundaries".
As I recall, the term has been always "Text Boundareis". While it did show "margins", the margins were also the boundareis for test for that document.
The work around for mailing labels is a bit bogus! Using "borders and shading" to show where the label boundaries are, only to need to remove them prior to printing is far too many steps.
The same is true with envelopes. Try teaching envelopes when there is no "shown" receipient box to place the receipients address or address block! Students have a hard time finding that "box" without "text boundaries"!
OH TO HAVE TEXT BOUNDARIES BACK AGAIN!