Microsoft Word - simple question on margins

I have the following margin indicators on my word document today:

http://myspace-497.vo.llnwd.net/01358/79/48/1358708497_l.jpg

Sorry it's uploaded onto my space but the jpg shows the kinda _| and |_ that are on the top of my page and also on the bottom. they just turned up one day and i cant get rid of them. any help?

 

anyone?

 

hah sorry, Those two little L things were just too distracting! I'll trying deleting the normal template first.... and see what happens.

 

nope i've deleted the normal template and it's still there. It's something to do with the margins......

i've gone through most hte options.... I have no idea how to get rid of it ARGH!

 

Hi acidburn942: Those little L thingy's are "text boundary" markers. You can turn them off by going to Tools>Options>View and in the "Print and Web Layout options" section check or, in your case, uncheck the box next to "Text boundaries ". OK you way out.

Note: I have Word 2000 so if you have a different version the location of the text boundaries check box may be slightly different.

Post back if this works. If not let us know and we will look a little further.

 

hi john,

Ive tried that already. It's already unchecked but the stupid L things are still there. textboundaries when selected creates another dotted line box around the text. anything else?

 

Hi again, yes I get the dotted outline of the text boundaries with the L things in the corners with the Text boundaries setting checked. Unchecked on my Word 2000 both disappear.

I went through just about every setting I could find and could not replicate what you are seeing. Strange seems to be something embedded in the normal.dot template. Should have been cleared if you deleted the normal.dot but obviously did not. Did you close down Word and reboot after deleting normal.dot?

I will be away for a week so won't be able to do much more on this. Hopefully someone else will jump in with some suggestions.

What version of Word are you using?

Edit: Here's another forum the specializes in MS Office applications you might want to post there to see if they can help: http://www.theofficeexperts.com/forum/

Post back here if you have any success or not.

 

all right i'll try it. thanks !

 

i fixed it!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839371

it was because i had chinese enabled on microsoft office..... when removed, the tabs went too. thanks everyone!

 

Thanks for posting back. Boy, I would have never guessed the solution to that one. I see posting on the Office Experts BBS put you on the right track .