Utilizing the Ruler guide in Word aids users in easily aligning margins and indentations of paragraphs with precision. Moreover, enabling Ruler on Word makes it effortless to evenly position images, paragraph text, or any existing content in Word. If, unfortunately, this guide is hidden and you're unsure how to display the Ruler again, formatting and aligning Word text become undoubtedly challenging.
Displaying both horizontal and vertical Ruler guides in Word
Guide to Enable Ruler on Word 2019
For the latest Office 2019, to toggle Ruler on or off in Word 2019, follow one of the two methods below:
Method 1: Enable Ruler guide using keyboard shortcuts
Step 1: Launch Word program, press the shortcut Alt + W -> you'll see all corresponding shortcut features displayed as shown in the image below:
Step 2: Next, simply press the R key -> And the result is the Ruler guide will be displayed both vertically and horizontally on your document
In case you don't want to display the Ruler bar on your document anymore for whatever reason. You continue to press the shortcut keys Alt + W and press the R key again to turn off Ruler on Word.
After successfully activating the Ruler guide, right away you can use the Ruler guide to align margins in Word to format text, documents... according to your preferences.
Method 2: Activate Ruler guide through the View tab
Step 1: To display the Ruler bar using this method, go to View -> select Show -> then check the box next to Ruler:
Step 2: The result is the Ruler guide will be displayed as described in the image below:
If you want to turn off the Ruler in Word, you simply follow the same steps as instructed above -> then, uncheck the box in the Ruler section:
Above are 2 methods to toggle, enable Ruler on Word 2019 with extremely simple steps to help users quickly format their documents and texts.
For older versions of Word such as Word 2010, 2007, 2003, refer to how to display the Ruler in Word here. As for Word 2013 and Word 2016, follow the same steps as in Word 2019 just instructed above. Wishing you all success!