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
    2017-11-24T17:04:46+00:00

    Almost 5 years without a fix, and the number of recent responses by people who do not even understand the question, strongly suggests this thread has run its course.

    That's not a knock against them; they are just trying to be helpful but don't know what they don't know - a feature they obviously never used and don't understand.

    If we want to see our old text boundaries, we'll need to use a different word processor (I think LibreOffice shows them the way Word used to) or run an old copy of Office. We are not going to see them again from Microsoft. I'm just trying to figure out who finds the current messed up version useful.

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  2. Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-06-27T20:51:01+00:00

    It's under File-->Options-->Display-->"Show white space between pages in Print Layout view." The box should be checked if you want to see the full page, including margins and white space, and not just as much of the page as has text.

    While that is a solution for a number of questions posted on this forum, it is not for this one.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-06-27T18:24:11+00:00

    It's under File-->Options-->Display-->"Show white space between pages in Print Layout view." The box should be checked if you want to see the full page, including margins and white space, and not just as much of the page as has text.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-03-10T23:44:55+00:00

    I might have been one of those suggesting "Crop Marks".  However, I still want the real "text boundaries" back in their original form.

    PLEASE VOTE TO GET THEM BACK!

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  5. Stefan Blom 351.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-03-10T22:36:04+00:00

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