Vertical Ruler problem

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Jan

I am using Word 2003. I prefer to use word in print
layout mode so I can adjust my vertical as well as
horizontal margins. All of a sudden 2 things have
happened. 1. The vertical ruler fills up the whole
space allotted and the cursor is at the top of the page.
I cannot adjust the vertical ruler at all. However, in
print preview mode the page shows correctly. When I open
a document I created before the problem, it opens in
another launch of Word and looks and works correctly.
2. Why all of a sudden when I open more than one
document does word relaunch? If I open a document that I
created before the vertical ruler problem, and then try
to open a new document from there, another instance of
word launches with the frozen vertical ruler.
How do you switch from opening a new window in the same
launch of word and opening more than one launch of the
program. On occasion, I would like to be able to view
two documents concurrently and having the program
launched twice would be useful. Please help.

Thanks,
Jan
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

For your second problem, if I'm reading you right, I think you're just
misinterpreting SDI. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/SDIMDI.htm

For the first problem, hover your mouse over the top of the page till the
pointer changes to a double arrow and you get the ScreenTip "Show White
Space." Click the left mouse button. If you then hover your mouse over the
top of the page again, you'll see "Hide White Space." If you click now,
you'll be back where you started (which is probably how you got there in the
first place--a stray click in the wrong place!). You can also change this
setting using the "White space between pages" check box on the View tab of
Tools | Options.
 
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Jay Freedman

Hi Jan

Both of these things are controlled by options.

1. In Tools > Options > View, check the box for "White space between
pages". When it's unchecked, Word collapses the headers, footers, and
top/bottom margins to let you see more body text.

2. In the same dialog, clear "Windows in Taskbar" to keep multiple
documents in the same window, or check it to get multiple windows (not
really separate instances).
 
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Jan

Thank you Suzanne. Problem 1 solved. Re Problem 2.
Previously, each document was listed on the task bar but
located in the same window, ie I could not move the
window to show two separate instances of "word" or two
separate documents, I could only cascade within one
window. Anyway, now I have more flexibility than I did
before. Maybe it is working correctly now and was not
before.

Jan
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Jay's answer tells you what you need wrt "Windows in Taskbar." That should
set you right.
 
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