[KJ]

I found a way around having to change margin settings and it seems to work
every time.

The trick is that you HAVE to actually be in the header or footer field for
it to work. Turn on Show/Hide so you see paragraph marks and go into the
header field or footer field. If there is text to delete, highlight it,
delete it then click on the Close Header/Footer button in the Header/Footer
Design Tab. The last paragraph mark in the header should become the first
paragraph mark in the body AT the top of the page. If you DON'T open the
header area and just hit the delete header key, the last paragraph mark still
holds the space for a new nonexistent header.

If just the paragraph mark is there, highlight it and click the close header
button, you may have to do this a few times to get it to disappear, but it
will happen. Again, if you just hit Delete, it won't work so make sure to
use the Close Header/Footer button.

KJ