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The TAB INDICATOR now shows only as a blank icon and no tabs show on the ruler. My tab indicator and tabs were fine until recently. Running Word 2013 on Win 8. How can I fix this, please?
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The fix for this bug has been released as KB2883058 as part of the August 2014 updates. If you have Office 365, the fix will be included in the August automatic updates; otherwise it will appear in the August Patch Tuesday downloads in Windows Update or can be obtained from the link above.
There is an issue causing tab stops and indent indicators to disappear from the ruler in Word 2013. The problem is being investigated by the Office team, and a fix is expected. Meanwhile, the following are workarounds recommended by Microsoft:
While other procedures may clear the problem temporarily, none is a permanent fix, and they do not address the underlying problem issue.
I am having the same problem. The document is one that was created in Word 2010. It has a table as the first thing in the document. The tab selection indicator is missing as I edit. I have found if I go into Options and change the background they will reappear - but that is just a work around.
The document starting with a table can't be the answer. The problem I have comes after I've already started a document with a table at the top. The tabs are there for a while and then they disappear. Sometimes restarting Word helps and sometimes it doesn't.
I have a Lenovo and just started experiencing the exact same problem. I can see the tab markers only when a blank document was previously and still is opened. Yesterday, I changed the background to the Windows 7 default and this fixed the problem ... but only temporarily, as this morning the tab markers had disappeared again. I've just reinstalled Word 2013 64 bits -- that's all I can this off.
Seems to me as a Microsoft bug...