How to display margins in Word 2013

In fact, I find that Show Text Boundaries do not even show you the page boundaries.  It shows you the top, left and right, however, if you have, say a section break, at the bottom, it will end there, not at your PAGE boundaries.  For instance, my Margins are all 1", and i have a section next page break at 6", and the Show Text Boundaries stop there.  That still is not my page margin.  Very frustrating feature, and all those lines make my eyes go wonky!

Do they ever do any type of updates to fix these things, or will I have to upgrade?  

Good Luck, All.  I'm still looking for a way!

Show text boundaries was never intended by MS to be used to show margins. Upgrading will not help. Word 2013 puts the lines around each paragraph. This will not change according to MS.

I keep this unchecked in all versions.

If you go to my downloads page, you can find a template that lets you have the traditional text boundaries in documents created from it with an explanation. This uses compatibility mode to make Word treat the document as if in Word 2010 which uses the old display engine. You would lose any features new in Word 2013, though, in such a document.

In fact, I find that Show Text Boundaries do not even show you the page boundaries.  It shows you the top, left and right, however, if you have, say a section break, at the bottom, it will end there, not at your PAGE boundaries.  For instance, my Margins are all 1", and i have a section next page break at 6", and the Show Text Boundaries stop there.  That still is not my page margin.  Very frustrating feature, and all those lines make my eyes go wonky!

Do they ever do any type of updates to fix these things, or will I have to upgrade?  

Good Luck, All.  I'm still looking for a way!

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.

***  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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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?

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.