Why is it taking Microsoft so long to correct the Text Boundaries issue in WORD 2013 when users are clearly unhappy with this feature?

I guess Microsoft Word 2013 just isn't the program for me or the many others that find the new presentation of text boundaries too distracting to work around.

I was under the impression that Microsoft worked towards addressing customer needs to make their product better by interfacing with users rather than making changes because they believe we all used a feature in a way they did not intend.

Text boundaries are useless in Word 2013; I agree completely. Saving in *.doc format is the only way to display the older, useful text boundaries in the current version of Word. :-(

Edit: You can use a line of VBA code to access the compatibility/layout options and then set compatibility to Word 2010 (which will restore text boundaries and still keep the document in *.docx format). See http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/how-to-display-margins-in-word-2013/50b69ab3-f9bd-47ff-81bb-dad1cbe8ea51 (Charles links to this thread in his reply below).

You could try posting a suggestion in the feedback form at http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Office/feedback.aspx?formID=375 and/or https://feedback.office.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scrx=1. (Note that the forms are intended for Word 2007 and 2010; I haven't been able to find anything similar for Office 2013.)

Edit: There is now a form that lets you make suggestions for Office 365; go to http://support2.microsoft.com/common/survey.aspx?scid=sw;en-us;2222&altStyle=MFE&renderOption=OverrideDefault&showpage=1&fr=1&nofrbrand=1.

The Microsoft Community Team keeps emailing me asking me to answer the previous post.

I think I have made my issue (WORD Boundaries) clear and it is also clear that it is an issue for many WORD users.

I see no reason to continue to post if Microsoft isn't listening, believing their development strategy trumps their customer-user needs.

I was under the impression that Microsoft worked towards addressing customer needs to make their product better by interfacing with users rather than making changes because they believe we all used a feature in a way they did not intend.

Not sure why you have that impression. Perhaps with some applications (Excel maybe), but it has never seemed that way to me. Word in particular has had issues going back years and years that Microsoft ignored.

In other words, the idiots on the team are telling us to go frack ourselves and doing their best to drive us from Microsoft products.

They've already succeeded with me for everything but Windows and Word. As soon as somebody--anybody--comes up with a decent macro language for another word processor, I'll be gone from Office and maybe have me a look around Linux as well.

It isn't going to be corrected. MS does not see it as a problem. Stefan Blom provided a document-specific workaround in this thread on March 4, 2015. I've posted a Word 2013 template with this attribute set in the Templates and Documents section of my Downloads page. Documents created in Word 2013 using that template will display the full-page margins text boundaries. It has a read-me document that links back to the thread.