Can not decrease header vertical size

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Jill

I am pretty experienced using headers/footers but am having a frustrating problem

The normal template has appeared to have changed. In a new document, the header heigth stays fixed at 5" (header top margin .5", page top margin at 1") which causes the page text to start at 5" down in the page (even though the margin says it is fixed at 1"). In header view, I have tried dragging/dropping the left ruler to change the header text margins but the header height stays fixed at a minimum of 5".

I have searched the Microsoft knowledge base and have tried many combinations of Page set-up header/footer and page margin settings - all to no avail

What am I doing wrong? Thank you
 
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Jezebel

Are you sure the problem is with the header? Inadvertently setting the
vertical alignment to Center would have this effect also: File > Page Setup
: Layout.



Jill said:
I am pretty experienced using headers/footers but am having a frustrating problem.

The normal template has appeared to have changed. In a new document, the
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header heigth stays fixed at 5" (header top margin .5", page top margin at
1") which causes the page text to start at 5" down in the page (even though
the margin says it is fixed at 1"). In header view, I have tried
dragging/dropping the left ruler to change the header text margins but the
header height stays fixed at a minimum of 5".
I have searched the Microsoft knowledge base and have tried many
Click to expand...
combinations of Page set-up header/footer and page margin settings - all to
no avail.
 
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