As I said, Help seldom keeps pace with new features.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Trey McNeal" Trey wrote in message
...
I just came across this post today . . . this issue has been driving me
crazy
too and I haven't had the time to research it until today. Too bad this
information isn't listed somewhere under "Page Views" in the help section;
it
seems that would be a much more logical place to find it. Maybe a
suggestion
for future versions.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

This feature is new in Word 2003. If you type "white space" into Word's
Answer Wizard, the first topic listed is "Show or hide white space in
print
layout view." Unfortunately, this assumes that you know this term. If
you
type "missing header," one of the hits is "Troubleshoot headers and
footers." The first section of this topic is promising: "The headers and
footers have disappeared." Unfortunately, if you expand this heading,
there
is no mention of white space. This is not surprising, as the built-in
Help
rarely manages to keep pace with new features. FWIW, that Help topic
does
provide the answers to a lot of other FAQs.

If you use the Knowledge Base Search option (under "Other places to
look"),
you get a lot of articles about missing headers in email messages and
the
like, but if you use Advanced Search to limit the search to Word 2003
(you'll have to reenter the "missing header" search term), the first hit
is
"Documents open with no margins visible in Word 2003"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=838674), which provides the correct
answer.

One of the suggestions that was made for Word 12 was to require a
Ctrl+click
to Show/Hide White Space. I don't yet know whether that recommendation
has
been (or will be ) implemented.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Jeff Menard" wrote in message
...
Who me?! Click in the wrong place?! ;-) You're probably correct about
that.
Maybe MS could add something to the Help files within Word about the
'show
white space' feature. I was unable to find it in Help if it's already
there.
I had never run across the 'show white space' feature in all the years
I've
used Word. I bet there are a couple of other things Word can do that
I
haven't found! ;-)

Thanks,
Jeff Menard

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Word 2003 does *not* default to this view. Most likely you
inadvertently
clicked in the wrong place.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Jeff Menard" Jeff wrote in
message
...
Fantastic! I knew the answer to this nagging issue would be
simple -
that
doesn't make it simple to determine! Since installing Office 2003
a
couple
of days ago, I have been plagues with this annoying problem. I
wonder
why
MS
would have Word 2003 default to this? Oh well, no matter now -
thanks,
you've earned the Tylenol Remedy of the Day Award.

Jeff

"Bill Foley" wrote:

Open Word, put your cursor at the very top of the page. Cursor
should
turn
into an up and down arrow with "Show white space". Click.
Close
Word.
Re-open Word. Is it all better?

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP
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"nedkelly2" wrote in
message
...
Hi, My problem is that when I open Word 2003, or a new
document
etc,
the
cursor is right at the top edge of the page instead of under the
margin.
There does not appear to be a margin at the top and bottom of
the
page.
I
have tried using and old document and deleting all the text and
saving
it as
normal.dot and deleting the old one, but when I open a new doc
is
has
exactly the same problem This makes me think that mayeb it is
a
format
setting or style or something that applies itself to all new
documents
as
soon as they open (or maybe I am talking rubbish). I am very
frustrated
have
spent ages trying to put this right. It was working okay but I
think
I
just
hit a few wrong keys when typing a letter once and got this
problem
appear.

I have Win XP Pro and Word 2003. When I use word under a
different
user,
it works fine, but different users have a different normal.dot.
I
have
tried
copying the normal.dot from a different user and still I get the
same
problem HELP! PLEASE!

Thanks,
Wayne