Actually with Mountain Lion it was only half as bad. This issue has gone worse with Yosemite, and even more frequent since I upgraded to Capitan, so I surmise that Apple is not helping either. I have the latest updates 14,6 and the cursor still disappears regularly. They even claimed it was fixed with the 14.4 update, which, as noted already in this forum, is not true. Microsoft people should be ashamed that this issue has been there for so many years. You can bring back the cursor by changing focus to another Word window, then back to the original file: bam, the cursor is there again. The only temporary/easy fix I found is the following: But only a foll would not save often when working with Ms Word. If I don't save the cursor stays visible. I can make it go away on purpose just by hitting Ctrl+S (saving the document). I have the disappearing cursor on 90% of the documents I work on. to know that you're (a) using a Mac, and (b) not using the real Microsoft Word. It costs money to keep on line and effort to update.Auot-ruler, spell check etc. Working in TextEdit As you begin typing, all the usual word processing. Many people visit this site and use the information it It depends on which version of Word you are using.Ĭhanges / suggestions / ideas can be sent to (It has been "underĬonsideration" since 2015.) More votes won't hurt. Here is a page where you can let them know. If you feel that Microsoft should change these back, Workarounds for Word 2013-2019/365 see my Link to a lengthy discussion of this change with workarounds:įor sample templates that have two of the discussed The boundaries revert to the previous display. If the document in Word 2013 is opened in compatibility mode The old functionality – it truly doesn’t exist."
Unfortunately, this means that scenarios that used to workĪccidentally now don’t work the same way. So Word "isĭoing precisely what it has always done (drawing borders around internal data That should probably never have been exposed to users.ĭraws a border around internal drawing rectangles," and those have nowĬhanged with the switch to a hardware-accelerated display. That was never supposed to be a feature," "a window into the internals of word" This is that text boundaries are " a feature There is no way to change thisĭisplay in Word 2013-2019/365 and it is highly unlikely that it will be changed back.Īs reported by Suzanne Barnhill and others, Microsoft's take on Paragraph boundary rather than a page boundary.
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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
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