How to display margins in Word 2013

Of course we all would like to see text boundaries back.  It was the most awesome item I found.  Regarding the label thing, I agree, however the work around is to turn borders on.  Technically, labels are tables and if you turn the borders on for all sides, you will get "text boundaries"!

Just let us have text boundaries SOONER THAN LATER!!!!!!

Given what the Office team has said about text boundaries (see Suzanne's reply), it's unlikely that the feature will ever be restored. My guess is that the option to display them will be removed from the Options dialog box.

Just to be clear, I'm hoping that I'm wrong and that the feature will be restored.

Therefore I recommend that you post a suggestion to bring back (useful) text boundaries here:

http://word.uservoice.com

I also found this (among other things) to be very frustrating.  This is my workaround if you don't need it to be in native Word 2013 format.

Turn on your boundaries.  

Sigh.  {optional)

Curse under your breath.  {optional)

Go to the File menu (once you find it)

Choose "Save As..."

Navigate the series of (unnecessary) choices to get to the Save As dialog box that should be one keystroke.

Choose to save as type: Word 97-2003 (*.doc)

Boundaries go back where they should be. (yea!)

If you prefer to have a .docx extension, at that point, you can

Save As... (again)

Save as type: Word document (*.docx)

Then check the box to "Maintain compatibility with previous versions of Word" rather than upgrade it to the native 2013 docx format.

Boundaries stay in the desired format.

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.

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