How to display margins in Word 2013

I like the convenience of Ctrl+F to open the Navigationpane. Moreover, there are times when I want to use the search in the pane because it shows all the results in context. In any case, situations where I need to enter "special" codes are usually Replace rather than Find operations.

I really like the Navigation Pane for some kinds of searches (not to mention navigation), but it's a barrier to more advanced searches (this is true in Word 2010, too, of course). I usually end up starting a search with Ctrl+H (to open the Replace dialog) so that I have all the options more easily accessible.

Suzanne, I'm surprised you are still using CTL H to call up the old Find dialog (by way of Replace).  I thought you had heard of the tip to reassign CTL F back to the traditional Find dialog. I too have no use for the stripped down find available in the Nav Pane (and I too keep the nav pane open in my documents 99% of the time)

CTRL + F Not Working the Way You Want?? Invoke Advanced Find Dialog directly - In Ribbon Versions of Office

http://www.davescomputertips.com/2013/05/ctrl-f-not-working-the-way-you-want/

I added my vote to your suggestion. I see that it has been marked as under review by the Word team! Cudos! This is the first time I've seen this notation on any suggestion. I have my fingers crossed.

Go to http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries and vote for Suzanne's suggestion.

Why is everyone else being so dense about this question?

We want to display the margins, not the text boundary, not the ruler, which are both very easy to find. Removing this feature, or making it hard to find, would be a major blunder by MS. They couldn't say more loudly that they do not care about their product or their customer. 

Sorry, "everyone" on this forum is not being "dense" about the question.  The "dense" entity is MS.  

Repeating the answer that has already been provided, Word 2013 (and later) no longer offers the option to display "margins".  As far as MS is concerned, the way text boundaries/margins were displayed in Word 2010 (and earlier) was "wrong".  The official position is that they "fixed the problem" (as they saw it) giving us the carpy display in 2013/2016.  Sorry that is not the answer you (and everyone else) wants to hear.

MS does "care" about their products. But what is important to MS is maintaining income from the products, aka new sales, rather than the actual quality or usability of the product.

Yes, MS has consistently shown they don't care about their existing customer base.  My guess is that they are assuming that like drug users we are so thoroughly "addicted" to their product that people will not switch to the alternative programs.  The change from menu's to the "ribbon" was entirely driven by desire to make the programs "easier" for "new" customers, and assumed that existing users would "adapt" to the "improvement".  The same thing applies to the move from the Windows "desktop" to what used to be called the "Metro" user interface with it's clunky tiles in Windows 8/10

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Mailing labels are tables; display table gridlines to see the cell boundaries.

For the rest, I totally agree. Go to http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries and vote for my "suggestion."