It's no big deal, once you are aware of it, to click in the grey space above
or below the page to toggle the display, or if desparate you could add the
command

ActiveWindow.View.DisplayPageBoundaries = True

to both an autoopen and an autonew macro in normal.dot so at least you would
start each document without it; or if you find it simpler to use a toolbar
button add the following toggle to a button.

Sub ToggleWhiteText()
With ActiveWindow.View
.DisplayPageBoundaries = Not .DisplayPageBoundaries
End With
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Charles Kenyon wrote:
You and many other people!

If you could put the following into a macro with the same name as the
command it in a global template it would work, but I don't know the
name of the Word command. Anyone else know it?

ActiveWindow.DisplayPageBoundaries = True

For more about what is going on, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm.

"Danica U" Danica wrote in message
...
is there a way to prevent the "Hide White Space" from popping up
when the mouse is between pages? I have had several people
accidentally select this,
then get wigged out when they can't see the margins or information
that is in
the space. I'd love to set some sort of default so that is not even
an option.