How can I remove these borders that act as margins and also between paragraphs?

I'm assuming it'll be changed back soon so that users can choose if they want to see those borders or not, just like how at first the start meni was removed completely from windows 8, but then put back as an option (though this new thing is much better in my opinion). 

The "Start Menu" was NOT returned to Win 8/8.1, just a fake "Start button".

There is absolutely no indication that MS will change that feature back to something useful.  As indicated in my previous reply, it is "FAD", "Failing as Designed". MS is "satisfied" it is working as designed.

Yes, upgrading back to 2010 is the only real "fix" at this time.  Make sure MS sales knows WHY you have abandoned 2013 (saying it here is not getting the message to the right people!).

Unfortunately, we have been given no reason to hope that this will be changed despite widespread protest.

Thanks a lot, at least now I know there's no use in trying. I'm assuming it'll be changed back soon so that users can choose if they want to see those borders or not, just like how at first the start meni was removed completely from windows 8, but then put back as an option (though this new thing is much better in my opinion). I switched back to office 2010, and it's working and looking just great, so to all those who can't handle this ugly new look, I suggest do the same :)

Jay has given you the only 2 options I know of.

FYI, the reason is that in Word 2013 MS changed the "Drawing Engine", the part of the program that is used to "draw" the document on the screen.  From the comments I've seen from MS, this is the way it was always "supposed" to work. In other words, what we got used to previously was the result of "broken" code.  The code was "fixed" to show what we see now, and MS says there is nothing left to "fix", they currently have no intention of returning to the old display approach.

This article describes the "benefits" of the new drawing engine: http://blogs.office.com/2012/08/21/updating-layout-in-word-2013-while-maintaining-compatibility/

I also have this "note" in my working notes:

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**http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_2013\_release-word/how-to-display-margins-in-word-2013/50b69ab3-f9bd-47ff-81bb-dad1cbe8ea51**

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NOTE 2013: Unfortunately, as you have discovered, text boundaries in Word 2013 are useless. This is due to the new layout engine used in Word 2013. It turns out that Word's developers had no idea that so many users depended on text boundaries, which we have been told were kind of a mistake to begin with, "a feature that was never supposed to be a feature," "a window into the internals of word" that should probably never have been exposed to users.

The feature "just draws a border around [Word's] internal drawing rectangles," and those have now changed with the switch to a hardware-accelerated display. So Word "is doing precisely what it has always done (drawing borders around internal data structures). Unfortunately, this means that scenarios that used to work accidentally now don’t work the same way. There’s really no way to bring back the old functionality – it truly doesn’t exist."

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