I would like to remove this dotted line around the editable area of the page. It was added by a macro, so I am not sure what it is called and where I remove it.
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1That looks exactly like openoffice does, which is one reason i use abiword or office instead– Journeyman Geek ♦Aug 15, 2011 at 12:15
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Yes, this makes it ever so irritating:)– Dmitry ChornyiAug 15, 2011 at 12:52
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FYI, here's the template that did it: springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0– Dmitry ChornyiAug 15, 2011 at 12:53
5 Answers
Navigate to...
File > Options > Advanced > Show Document Content
...then uncheck the Show Text Boundaries
option
Go to the Page Layout tab and click Page Borders
Click None, the OK.
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1Thank you bu this does not help. This border is not a property of the document (it will not be printed), but is rather some option in Word that makes it display all documets like this. Aug 15, 2011 at 12:50
in word 2007 and may be in 2010 you may follow this:
select marginated text> page layout>margins>custom margins>layout>Border> None I hope it works.
Good day. If you are the user of MS WORD 2007 then:
Open an MS word file. Then Press OFFICE BUTTON Then WORD OPTIONS, Then ADVANCED, Then scroll through vertical scroll bar and you will find the heading "SHOW DOCUMENT CONTENT" and under this you will find "SHOW TEXT BOUNDARIES" and then UNCHECK the box allocated for "Show text boundaries" and you will see you text boundary disappears. Hope this serves your purpose. Take care. Tarek, Bangladesh
I was going to add this as a comment to CJM's answer but I thought that a comparative screenshot would be useful.
Speaking from the far distant future (and for the benefit of others who are also here many years later after searching for "Show Text Boundaries"), the behaviour of the checkbox mentioned in CJM's answer (File > Options > Advanced > Show Document Content > Show Text Boundaries) was changed in Word 2013 to the infuriation of many Word power users.
In 2010 it would show a boundary outline around the text-containing part of a page (as shown in the screenshot of the question). That is, it would exclude margins, etc so that you would have a clear idea of how much space you have for adding text.
If the section of the document was defined as having multiple columns, the outline would appear around the text-containing part of each column. Similarly it would appear around the text-containing part of a text box.
In Word 2013 it was "fixed" so that Word now shows a boundary outline around each paragraph. The sole exception is a text box, where the boundary is still around the entire text-containing part of the object as shown below.
Thus, if you're here in a post-2013 world you will be seeing something very different.