How to display margins in Word 2013

For labels, turn on the display of Grid Lines via Table Tools>Layout>View Gridlines

With an envelope, the border of the Frame into which the address is inserted is visible when the selection is within that frame.  It helps is you have the display of Non-printing characters turned on so that you can see the paragraph mark (¶) inside the Frame

Yes, this is a work around.

On evelopes, the text box should show WITHOUT clicking in the area!

For labels, this should be a DEFAULT setting.  

I agree, it works, but it is a work around that should not need to happen.  Never needed these work arounds with "text boundaries" turned on!

Thanks for your comments, and the work arounds.

I would not regard table gridlines as a "workaround." I keep them enabled all the time even in Word versions that do display text boundaries correctly, in part because I sometimes work in Normal/Draft view, in which text boundaries are not displayed at all.

I agree. Still, text boundaries (the way they used to work before Word 2013) were very useful!

I would not regard table gridlines as a "workaround." I keep them enabled all the time even in Word versions that do display text boundaries correctly, in part because I sometimes work in Normal/Draft view, in which text boundaries are not displayed at all.

OK, you have convinced me to turn View Gridlines on in Table Tools.

This will be another change in default settings that for a novice user (and some seasoned users) is a huge stretch when teaching mail merge and labels for the first time.

I have several pages of "default" settings that need to be changed from spacing, to dates, to paragraph spacing, etc.

I will now just add one more to the list - but first one needs to create a table to get to table tools!

It is so exciting to be a teacher and try to explain the reasons for the changes.

I do appreciate your responses and others.

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The downside of "contextual" tabs is that they're accessible only when the "context" is right. Like you, I find it a nuisance to have to insert a table to access the table tools (as opposed to the Table menu in Word 2003 and earlier, which is always available), a graphic to access the picture tools, etc., but that's because I'm usually just testing scenarios and checking for the exact content and wording of menus and dialogs (in order to help other users). In actual use, I suppose it makes sense to have them work this way.

There are a few instances in which Word makes settings more accessible than in earlier versions. Being able to access an empty header by double-clicking instead of having to use View | Header and Footer is a great improvement (one I often miss, working in Word 2003), but even better is the ability to access the Page Number Format dialog from any location in a document, which makes it far easier to restart numbering in a "landlocked" section in the middle of a page (with no header or footer).