Text in Word displaying lines between paragraphs

Question

Word is displaying a line in each and every change of paragraph. Even if I disable the Show/Hide option, the line is there. What lines are these (pointed by red arrows)? I do want the limits of text displayed but I don't want these lines. Please waiting for your prompt answer

Answer 1

Hi,

Follow these steps and check if it helps:

Go to File > Options > Advanced. In the "Show document content" section, clear the checkbox for "Show text boundaries".

Reply with the results to assist you better.

Thank you.

Answer 2

Thanks a lot, Guruprasad Ra, for your prompt answer.

This has removed the lines between paragraph, definitively. But the limits of text (margins boundaries) were also removed. I do want to keep them. I could do it in the previous Office versions (e.g. 2010) but I don't understand why it has changed in the 2013 version.

Thanks a lot once again.

BR

Eddo Ammo

Answer 3

Unfortunately, this is just the way text boundaries work in Word 2013. Beta testers protested the change, but it turns out that the previous display of text boundaries was never really intentional, and the new display is a result (perhaps an unintended consequence) of the change in layout engine. Like you, I find the display unusable either with these terrible boundaries or without boundaries at all (one reason I'm not using Word 2013).

You could clean up the display a lot, though, by using Spacing Before/After instead of empty paragraphs between your text paragraphs: instead of pressing Enter twice to get space between paragraphs, modify the paragraph style to have the desired amount of space; since the default Normal style already has 10 pts Spacing After, it will be more efficient to add to that amount since Spacing Before and After are not additive unless you disable the HTML paragraph spacing rule, and Spacing Before would therefore be ignored unless it was more than 10 points.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, this is just the way text boundaries work in Word 2013. Beta testers protested the change, but it turns out that the previous display of text boundaries was never really intentional, and the new display is a result (perhaps an unintended consequence) of the change in layout engine. Like you, I find the display unusable either with these terrible boundaries or without boundaries at all (one reason I'm not using Word 2013).

You could clean up the display a lot, though, by using Spacing Before/After instead of empty paragraphs between your text paragraphs: instead of pressing Enter twice to get space between paragraphs, modify the paragraph style to have the desired amount of space; since the default Normal style already has 10 pts Spacing After, it will be more efficient to add to that amount since Spacing Before and After are not additive unless you disable the HTML paragraph spacing rule, and Spacing Before would therefore be ignored unless it was more than 10 points.

H Suzanne! Thanks a lot for your answer! But I am really disappointed with the way Microsoft leads with its users. Should I say disgusting? This Office 2013 brings lots of improvements but removed lots of "good things", like the dark skin (the actual skin is so light that sometimes its difficult to see what is displayed), to mention just one of the "declination".

Regarding your suggestion of clean up the display, I appreciate it but it was not enough, as the "lines" were not removed.

A final question, if you don't mind to disclose: which version of Word (or word processor) are you using?

Thank you so much for your help!

Regards,

EA