How to display margins in Word 2013

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Well, I want this feature to be accessible as an option! I use page/margin boundaries to help me visualize where text and graphics line up on the page as a whole. I have used it since I began using MS Word in the '90s. I can't believe that the developers are claiming visible margin boundaries was a mistake!!!! Even if it was, it became a useful feature and BTW, are those original developers even still around to validate that claim?

Not sure who decided this was a feature no one used.  How did they determine no one used it?

I was also a pasteup artist many years ago and then was a desktop publisher for many years, using Aldus (later Adobe) Pagemaker and QuarkXpress. The MS Office Suite of programs became useful tools in document creation, complementary to the desktop publishing programs and sometimes even replacing them for some tasks. These boundaries help make WYSIWYG a realistic mental transfer between digital on screen images and hard copy paper. Without the page boundaries feature, spatial visualizing is more of an effort! Makes the programs less useful for me.

Please, Microsoft and MS Developers, add the option to view page boundaries, or margin boundaries, back into the software! 

Debbie Vacik

I had this challenge too.  It wasn't a ruler issue....I needed to see the whole page, margins included. 

Go to Options > Display > select Show white space between pages in Print Layout view. > OK

Showing white space is certainly a good idea. There is even an easier method described in this page. Elusive White Space

However what the original poster in this long and old thread was talking about was the dotted line framing the area in which typing would go. This was generally at the page margins. This feature no longer works in Word 2013 without using one of workarounds set forth in this thread.

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 Options, Display, Page display options, and click on the top box - "Show white space between pages in Print Layout view.   When I upgraded to WIndows 10, somehow this option got unchecked in Word 2013.

Showing white space is certainly a good idea. There is even an easier method described in this page. Elusive White Space

However what the original poster in this long and old thread was talking about was the dotted line framing the area in which typing would go. This was generally at the page margins. This feature no longer works in Word 2013 without using one of workarounds set forth in this thread.

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 Options, Display, Page display options, and click on the top box - "Show white space between pages in Print Layout view.   When I upgraded to WIndows 10, somehow this option got unchecked in Word 2013.