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. Anonymous
    2015-02-11T17:37:38+00:00

    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!!!!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-11T17:37:31+00:00

    Yea!  Did not know this.  Thanks so much.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-02-11T17:20:48+00:00

    Let's create the groundswell.  I often refer to the explanation blogs, but never reply.  Here's my first as I am that frustrated.

    After searching online for the last two days determined to find someone who knows how to turn-on the margins, it appears it is not going to work in Word 2013.  Phooey.  Trying to work with labels without margins is difficult.  I suppose I'll have to outline everything - just hope I remember to remove the lines before printing.  So much for a new and improved product.

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-12-20T13:48:00+00:00

    If you are referring to http://wordsintotype.mvps.org/LonelyPilcrow.htm, it is a Web page, so it might be treated differently. If you were viewing it in Web Layout view, you would still see the lines but not in Read Mode.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-12-20T05:05:44+00:00

    Suzanne:

    I just found your responses to Thinh Nguyen Tien andThomasCollo 's questions about the missing text boundaries  in Word 2013 (after three hours of searching, including a reading of most of your MVP artifles, because I was determined to find an answer this time).  That ends my search, but leaves me just as frustrated as I was beforehand!  I have to agree with you that it is yet another example of how ignorant Microsoft developers are with respect to .how people actually use their program.

    If I had known about this ahead of time, I would have purchased an earlier version of Office (with Word 2010) for my new computer (which I had to get, because its predecessor died).  I guess I'll just have to learn to live with it, but it will be difficult.

    I noted along the way, interestingly enough, that saving s copy of your Manuscript Template converted it into the same line-covered format but that my system was happy to copy your "Lonely Pilcrow" presentation (copied because I had difficulty reading the light blue print) without adding those lines, even though I think they were both *.docx files.

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