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. 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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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-24T12:09:20+00:00

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

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-11-22T06:40:24+00:00

    That is a "fix" for something entirely different from the inability of Word 2013 and 2016 to show text boundaries of the type that were displayed in Word 2010.  

    There is NO fix for that inability.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-22T06:21:47+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.

    Go to File>Options>Display and check the box "Show white space between pages in Print Layout View"

    That WILL fix it!

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  5. Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-06-27T20:51:01+00:00

    It's under File-->Options-->Display-->"Show white space between pages in Print Layout view." The box should be checked if you want to see the full page, including margins and white space, and not just as much of the page as has text.

    While that is a solution for a number of questions posted on this forum, it is not for this one.

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