Word 2003 - Print Layout "loses" Header/Footer Margins

[Tom Walker]

When I open a new Word document, the Header and footer margins do not
appear on the guide at the left-hand side of the window and the cursor
is positioned right at the very top of the page.

If I click on View, Header and Footer and then Close, the margins appear
and the cursor is positioned correctly.

Any way I can get rid of this irritating little problem? I've updated
Office with all the automatic updates available on the Microsoft site
but no improvement.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Tom Walker

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Tom,

By default the header/footer are empty in Word documents,
so space isn't allocated for them until you fill the
header/footer.

You can open the file Normal.dot and View Header/Footer
and enter whatever default content you would like there
(minimum - type a space) then close the template.

When you start new Word documents you'll have the space allocated to
a header/footer and 'see' the outline on screen in
Print Layout view.

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When I open a new Word document, the Header and footer margins do not
appear on the guide at the left-hand side of the window and the cursor
is positioned right at the very top of the page.

If I click on View, Header and Footer and then Close, the margins appear
and the cursor is positioned correctly.

Any way I can get rid of this irritating little problem? I've updated
Office with all the automatic updates available on the Microsoft site
but no improvement.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Tom Walker>>

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[Beth Melton]

In Word 2002 they introduced a new feature that allows you to hide the
top/bottom margins (white space).

To bring back the view of the top/bottom margin, place your mouse
pointer just below the ruler, watch for the "Show white space" screen
tip to appear and click the mouse button.

You can also go to Tools/Options/View and turn on "White space between
pages".
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[Tom Walker]

Beth

That's great - many thanks for your help.

Tom

 

[Tom Walker]

Bob

Thanks, that's useful to know. See also Beth's reply to my original post.

Regards

Tom