How to show the alignment frame in Word

Align frames in Word help us align the Word margins more accurately according to current regulations. The margin frame will show the dotted indents in Word so that you can adjust the amount of text in each border when editing a Word document. However, due to the wrong operation, you may accidentally turn off the alignment frame, making it difficult to adjust the Word margin. To re-enable the alignment frame in Word is also very simple. We just need to change the setting in Word. The following article will guide you how to display borders in Word

1. Show Word alignment frame 2007, 2010, 2016, 2019

At the interface in Word, we click on File and then click on Options .

How to show the alignment frame in Word Picture 1

Then display the setting interface, we click on Advanced and then look to the right to find Show text boundaries to select.

How to show the alignment frame in Word Picture 2

Then in the Word interface displays the border frame as shown below. When you enter what content to use, the alignment frame automatically displays to help you adjust the margin more standard.

How to show the alignment frame in Word Picture 3

With Word 2007 , you do the same, click the Office icon and select Word Options . Switch to the setting interface, click Advanced, and then activate the Show text boundaries option .

How to show the alignment frame in Word Picture 4

2. How to display the alignment frame in Word 2003

At Word 2003 interface, click on Tools and select Options .

How to show the alignment frame in Word Picture 5

Switch to the new interface, click on View and then tick Text Boundaries to activate the alignment frame in Word.

How to show the alignment frame in Word Picture 6

3. Fix alignment error showing multiple lines in Word

By default, when you activate the alignment frame, it will display each line like this when we press Enter. When displayed like this, it is annoying for users when the interface looks very confusing and also affects the process of editing and importing content. To show only one alignment frame, the border around the text you follow the way below.

Step 1:

First you need to download the file normal.dotm according to the link below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2QfUdkE56fzMVdXX1FoWVdSYW8/view

Step 2:

Next, users access the link below to navigate to the normal.dotm file currently in the system.

C:UsersuserAppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates

When you find the file normal.dotm , right click and select Rename to rename the file to any name.

How to show the alignment frame in Word Picture 7

Step 3:

Then you move the newly downloaded normal.dotm file in step 1 into this directory to replace the normal.dotm file of Windows.

How to show the alignment frame in Word Picture 8

Finally, turn off the Text Boundaries option , turn off Windows, and then re-enable the alignment bracket from the start so that the changes are applied. The resulting alignment frame displays as shown below, no more lines as before.

How to show the alignment frame in Word Picture 9