How to display margins in Word 2013

Interesting! That is exactly how I use the Results section of the Navigation pane. For context and a quick overview of search results, I use Ctrl+F (the re-assigned built-in shortcut). Anything more advanced I do from the Find and Replace dialog box (Ctrl+H), and I actually prefer the Find & Replace tab over the Find tab in the dialog.

Thank you, who ever you are...View to Ruler did it.

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

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.

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.