[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Could be that Track Changes is on (or that White Space is hidden).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Simply opening a document wouldn't change the default margins in Word.
Maybe the view has changed? Verify that documents are displaying in Print
Layout view (look at the View menu).

If you find that the actual margins has changed, change them in File |
Page Setup and then click the Default button. If/when you are prompted to
save your Normal template, choose to do so.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Dana H" Dana wrote in message
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I had opened a Word document from an email attachment, and its margins
were
wide (from 0 on the left to 8 on the right). My normal Word 2003 default
is 0
to 6. Now every time I open a new document in Word it has the wide
margins.
How do I restore them?