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I created a document with mirror margins for book layout and also mirror indents to place a note box along text in each page. Options are as follows:

Word Options > Advanced > Document view = Left to Right

Page Setup > Margins > Multiple pages = Mirror margins

Margins > Inside = 4 cm

Margins > Outside = 2 cm

Margins > Gutter = 0 cm

Page Setup > Paper = A4

Page Setup > Layout > Section > Section Direction = Left to right (Whole document)

Page Setup > Layout > Headers and footers > Different odd and even = checked

Now on even pages handles of ruler are displayed on wrong position as you can see in the second screenshot.

On Odd pages ruler handles are on correct position:

ruler on odd pages

On even pages it's not correct:

ruler on even pages

This makes limitations to have a right to left paragraph among this left to right text.

Also for adding tab stops near outside margin I should go through Tabs dialogue and ruler is not functional to do it.

Is this a bug or I'm wrong somewhere?

You can download my sample document from here.

I tried this on Word 2013 and 2016, it behaves the same on both.

UPDATE

For now as a workaround I removed mirror indents and increased the amount of outside margin.

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That does seem to be a bug, and you should report it to Microsoft.

However, it does not actually limit you, since you can always use "Format | Paragraph" to set indents and tabs in a dialog and with numeric values rather than visually on the rulers.

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