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: Text Boundaries Display in Microsoft Word List and other info and go directly to the start of this topic. Please consider making a donation if you can. It costs money to keep on line and effort to
