Unfortunately, this means that scenarios that used to workĪccidentally now don’t work the same way. So Word 'isĭoing precisely what it has always done (drawing borders around internal data That should probably never have been exposed to users.ĭraws a border around internal drawing rectangles,' and those have nowĬhanged with the switch to a hardware-accelerated display. That was never supposed to be a feature,' 'a window into the internals of word' This is that text boundaries are ' a feature

There is no way to change thisĭisplay in Word 2013-2019/365 and it is highly unlikely that it will be changed back.Īs reported by Suzanne Barnhill and others, Microsoft's take on Paragraph boundary rather than a page boundary. This changed the display of these dotted lines to a These dotted lines were even being used for this purpose and changed their text However, the designers at Microsoft were apparently unaware that Personally, I found them distracting and simply Shauna Kelly recommended turning them on in herīeginner's tutorial. Many Word users use this feature to tell them, at a glance, Here are two screenshots of the same document Margins, but this is not quite as intuitive for many users. Note that the Horizontal and Vertical Rulers also display the Margins as 'text boundaries.' Here is a screenshot from Word 97 with themĭisplayed and with the option dialog that turns display on or off: Microsoft Word has long had the option of displaying the page (changed with Word 2013) This page last revised:

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