Microsoft Office Home And Student 2013

[Sam1960]

Was having a lot of problems with my PC over the last few weeks, and on friday it threw in the towel.
Went out on sunday and bought a new one, and was told that I couldn't run my microsoft office home and student 2007 disc, and was advised to upgrade to the 2013 version which you download.
Could someone please tell me how to get the ruler type thing that lets you space your documents back ? It ran down the left hand side of what it was you were processing in my 2007 version.
I checked out youtube earlier to see if I could get the answer there, and watched a video that told you to click on microsoft office, then click on word option !! Can't see either ?
I'm using windows 8, and still a bit of a "dinosaur" when it comes to computers. Which means the answer is probably staring me straight in the face and I can't see it !!
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help

[Prudie]

I only have Office 2010 so it might be different but I go into Word, select the 'view' tab and there is an option for 'ruler' to be ticked.

[diddlydo]

If you've got a disc with an old version of Office just try loading it on new computer. When we got a new laptop (Windows 7)2 years ago we were told our old Microsoft Office 2000 wouldn't work. We loaded it and downloaded the patch to convert newer Word Docs and it's fine. Ditto even newer laptop (Windows 8) bought 2 months ago. It's all a big con by PCWorld et al.

[Sam1960]

it was PC World that I went to on sunday diddlydo !!
Thanks Prudie, will wait and see what advice I get then go and try it !!

[Sam1960]

thanks Prudie, found it :o}

[torcars]

Thanks Sam for Flockstars answer, great, cheers, Torcars