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2024-06-15T20:11:48+00:00

In Word, how to show page margins.

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  1. Jay Freedman 207.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-06-15T20:58:32+00:00

    Besides reading the measurements in the Margins page of the Page Layout dialog, the best way is to look at the horizontal and vertical rulers. On the horizontal ruler, the left and right margin areas are shaded in gray. The markers, which usually coincide with the edges of the margins, indicate the left and right indents of the current paragraph.

    The vertical ruler shows shading for the top and bottom margins.

    Also, there are two options to display where the margins are. Most people keep them turned off most of the time because they're distracting.

    One method is to go to File > Options > Advanced, scroll down to the "Show document content" section, and check the box for "Show text boundaries".

    This option places a thin gray box around every paragraph in the document:

    The margins are just the areas outside the boxes.

    The second option is immediately below the "text boundaries" option, "Show crop marks". This places a right-angle mark in each corner of the page, with the horizontal and vertical lines indicating the edges of the text area.

    Again, the margins are the areas outside the crop marks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-02T21:13:13+00:00

    What i need is to be able to see what values the margins were set to, to verify they were set correctly. I can find a billion pages on how to set or define margins, and not one that tells me how to tell what margins are already st.

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-10-03T01:03:38+00:00

    You can view the Margins tab in the Page Setup dialog. The easiest way to access this is to double-click at the top of the horizontal ruler.

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  3. Charles Kenyon 166.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-10-02T21:19:21+00:00

    As Jay Freedman said in his Answer, you can look at the margins in the horizontal and vertical Rulers.

    If what you want is the old text boundaries which showed a box around your page, there is no practical way to do this in Word after Word 2013. For some, this is a reason to stick with Word 2010. Text Boundaries Display in Microsoft Word

    If you would like the program to be changed, posting here does nothing.

    This is a user-to-user support forum. -- You can give feedback TO MICROSOFT designers and decision makers on Microsoft Word or other Microsoft Products (using their feedback mechanisms, not here)

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-06-15T20:42:45+00:00

    In Word, go to File>Options>Advanced>Show document content and check the box for "Show crop marks"

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