Displaying text boundaries is helpful to me (Tools | Options | View), but
you can also use onscreen gridlines (Draw | Grid | "Show gridlines on
screen" from the Drawing toolbar).

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"bfjames" wrote in message
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I want to create templates that include guidelines for use in aligning
text
and objects. I want these guidlines to only show up when I'm editing the
document, not when I print it.