How to display margins in Word 2013

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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?

This worked fine for me the second time!  I had a spacing issue, however, the "fix" appears to be only for that document.  Granted, better than nothing.  Thanks for the response.  I sure hope the Microsoft Team gets ir right and puts "TEXT BOUNDARIES" back in.  They were awesome.  I am a teacher of adults, and never had a person NOT LIKE TEXT BOUNDARIES.  tHANKS.

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.