Word tab selector button not visible

[Guest]

my tab selector button on blank new pages is not visible but my ruler is

 

[Guest]

Access Tools then Options, and then create a shortcut for Tab selector, or
add a checkmark next to it, if it appears in the taskbar dropdown menu.

There might be other ways.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Are you in Web Layout view? If yes, try changing to Normal view
or Print Layout view.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I would be interested in step-by-step instructions for doing what you
suggest. How do you "create a shortcut for Tab selector" in Tools | Options?
Perhaps you mean Tools | Customize? Have you even looked to see whether such
a thing exists? Presumably you are suggesting adding a button to a toolbar?
You do understand, don't you, that the subject under discussion is the
horizontal ruler, which is not user-customizable?

You have been very free with your advice in this NG. As far as I can tell,
many of the suggestions you have offered are untested and do not correlate
with existing features of Word (and consequently are very unlikely to solve
the problem). I suggest that in future you test your suggestions before
offering them.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

I agree. But to get back to the dilemma, the user logged out and came back
in, the problem was gone.

 

[Guest]

Thanks but it didn't work. We logged out, signed in the system again and the
problem was gone.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It could well be that the user was in Web Layout view as garfield-n-odie
suggested.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[TomJ58]

I have this problem [or a very similar one] as well.

My ruler is visible in a Word document [Word 2013] but the check box on the left where you would normally select the type of tab required is blank.

I am in Print Layout, and there is no Normal Layout showing as an option.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers, Tom