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. Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2015-03-04T20:49:32+00:00

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    Press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to activate the Immediate window. Type

    ActiveDocument.SetCompatibilityMode wdWord2010

    and press Enter. **

    >JIM 1957

    Looking forward to this, however, I get a "runtime error "438"

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    I tried this and it worked fine. Thank you Stefan.

    Jim, are you by chance running the 64-bit version of Office?

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  2. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-03-04T22:07:50+00:00

    Try again. Note that the code:

    ActiveDocument.SetCompatibilityMode wdWord2010

    must be typed exactly as shown (no additional spaces or line breaks), and then you press Enter at the end of the line.

    I don't know if 64 bit Office makes a difference, but I suppose it could...

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-05T00:03:26+00:00

    ***

    Press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to activate the Immediate window. Type

    ActiveDocument.SetCompatibilityMode wdWord2010

    and press Enter. **

    >JIM 1957

    Looking forward to this, however, I get a "runtime error "438"

    ***

    I tried this and it worked fine. Thank you Stefan.

    Jim, are you by chance running the 64-bit version of Office?

    This worked fine for me the second time!  I had a spacing issue, however, the "fix" appears to be only for that document.  Granted, better than nothing.  Thanks for the response.  I sure hope the Microsoft Team gets ir right and puts "TEXT BOUNDARIES" back in.  They were awesome.  I am a teacher of adults, and never had a person NOT LIKE TEXT BOUNDARIES.  tHANKS.

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  4. Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2015-03-05T13:48:31+00:00

    ***  I had a spacing issue, however, the "fix" appears to be only for that document.  Granted, better than nothing.  Thanks for the response.  I sure hope the Microsoft Team gets ir right and puts "TEXT BOUNDARIES" back in.  They were awesome.  I am a teacher of adults, and never had a person NOT LIKE TEXT BOUNDARIES.  tHANKS.

    Yes, the workaround is document specific. I never use text boundaries. However, it is highly unlikely that the old method will return. This was hard coded into the underlying code of Word in the revision to Word 2013/365.

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  5. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-03-05T15:51:17+00:00

    Yes, setting the compatibility option to Word 2010 is file-specific. Of course, you can create a template with the compatibility option set, and then create new documents based on the template.

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