Yes it is annoying, but once you realize what it is, it is easy to fix. See
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/wordfaqs/WhiteSpace.htm.
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

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"Tom" wrote in message
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please help me gid rid of this annoying issue: when i start a new blank
page,
the view is set to page layout view. However, the header and footer are
always cropped. I am so bothered by this truncated view... When i run
winword.exe /a, word opens with a view that I am used to. Hence, I think
the
issue is related to the normal.dot file or an add-in. So, my question is,
how
do i change the way word startsup? I've tried replacing the normal.dot
file
with a new one, but that doesn't seem to work.

Word2003 sp1 running on Xp.

tom