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. Anonymous
    2014-12-08T19:14:44+00:00

    There is no solution known.  I have put "crop marks" on the four corners that help, but not the same as text boundaries.

    You MUST use text boundaries when using labels or you will not be able to tell whether the text fits inside the labels.  I have had some labels display the labels, but not always.  

    Good luck, however, WE DO NEED TEXT BOUNDARIES BACK!!!!

    Good luck

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-08T16:29:52+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.

    Go to the view tab and check ruler.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-11-12T01:18:59+00:00

    I sure wish I had the page boundaries again!!! Does Microsoft listen to anyone?

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-09-15T16:31:36+00:00

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

    I love you who ever you are, you have saved my brain from exploding... I have my movable margin I can edit my documents again...maybe I won't absolutely hate office 2013 now.......but maybe I will continue to find things that it just doesn't do as well as 2003

    Anyway thank you so very much for telling us how to flick the ruler on, my how to book doesn't

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-08-28T00:00:56+00:00

    No. NOT the RULER. The text boundary feature (not a 'mistake that was never supposed to BE a feature') is more than a century old, far more! It is used by graphic designers to show the outer borders of design elements or, in the case of Microsoft Word, primarily to show the margins of the printable area.

    Microsoft FUBARED this 100% and then they LIED ABOUT IT. They  hire foreigners who don't speak english as a FIRST language, who are NOT top developers (i.e. they come from foreign THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES like INDIA) and they do extremely mediocre work.

    It's a shame, but what can you expect of low iq GATES? He is no better than Jobs. Jobs at least had a brain but no integrity or ethics.

    I despise them all.

    I've been working in I.T. since the age of 12 and I am not a 'millennial' 'computer genius'... I am a 66 year old genius.

    Microsoft make mediocre products while pushing their agenda to destroy the USA just like that effing moron puppet in the whitehouse. Correction: the moron in the wh isn't smart enough to DO anything that would seriously impact anyone, but his PUPPETMASTERS ARE. Unfortunately, Microsoft and Obutthead are proof positive that the earth IS the domain of the devil.

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