If you are someone that does a lot of editing or formatting in Microsoft Word, you might have a need to view the actually text boundaries to make sure you are with in them. Enabling them is an easy task. Here is how to view text boundaries in Word 2010 or Word 2007.
View Text Boundaries in Word
Since this Word tutorial can be down in Word 2007 and Word 2010 we are going with 2010 since it is newer and we like it a lot better.
Before we get started here is what Word will look like without the text boundaries in place. Just a normal Word document.
Now lets enable the text boundaries. First open Word, just search for Word in the Start Search or look under the Programs folder for the start menu under Microsoft Office. Since we are using Word 2010 we will open that. After you opened Word 2007 or 2010 go to the File menu, or Office button and click Options.
Under the options menu click the Advanced menu item in the left frame and scroll down to Show Document content section and check the box next to Show text boundaries.
Click ok and look at Word now. You will see what we have in the image below.
If you don’t want the text boundaries anymore just go back to the Options menu under Advanced under the Show document content group and remove the check box near Show text boundaries. That is it.
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Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!
thank you, it’s easy to know information when it’s come by pictures.
Many thanks for that.
After years of using Word 2003, I’m still groping my way around this supposedly easier to use version!
Great job of how to change this and where the options are in 2010.
Thanks
Thanks.
Leave it to microsoft to change things like this and offer no help at all …