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How to hide/show ruler in Word 2011

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Glenny2lappies

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Simple question: how does one hide and show the ruler in Word 2011. ?

In Word 2008 it was View > Ruler. This is missing in Word 2011.
 
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Pndrgnsvc

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I am curious why this is not working for you (it does for me).

1. Open Word
2. In The Menu Bar/View
3. Click on "Ruler"

Is "ruler" greyed out or not even appear?
 
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Glenny2lappies

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A partial screenshot is attached. I can't see any Ruler item in the View menu.

Just to reiterate, it's Word 2011 which has freshly been installed on a machine that had Office 2008 installed.
 

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Strange. Here's mine on a machine which never had any other version of Word installed.
 

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Glenny2lappies

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xraydoc said:
Strange. Here's mine on a machine which never had any other version of Word installed.
Click to expand...

Thanks Microsoft. I so like these mysteries...

Just like the one I had earlier where Word refused to select a word when I double-clicked on it... Now it does.

I suppose I'll need to reboot my machine. Swear a few magical incantations and hope that it'll work:-(
 
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drrocket

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Word 2011 enables the ruler in Draft and Print Layout views, but not in either Web Layout or Outline view.
 
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RicM

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Dec 10, 2013
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Thanks!

This did the trick for me! Thanks, dude or dudette for making the Internet a little better by helping!
 
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