Using Text Boundaries

If you work in Print Layout view in Word 2000, you may find that using text boundaries can be helpful. These are dotted lines that appear in your document to mark the limits of text elements. For instance, when you use text boundaries, dotted lines appear around the margins of your text, as well as around headers, footers, footnotes, etc. To control the display of text boundaries, follow these steps:

1. Make sure you are viewing your document in Page Layout view.
2. Choose Options from the Tools menu. Word displays the Options dialog box.
3. Click on the View tab.
4. Use the Text Boundaries check box to control whether Word uses text boundaries in Print Layout view and Web Layout view. Click on the check box to turn the feature on and off; a check in the box means it is enabled.
5. Click on OK.