If you want to be sure of getting the default margins back, you can rename
Normal.dot. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm

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"ScrapDollyGirl" wrote in message
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Thank you for your help ) I'll go try it

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Don't know in cm, but in inches the margins are 1" Top and Bottom, 1.25"
Left and Right. FWIW, when you click Default, you get a dialog asking if
you
want to change the default margins for all new documents. This is what
you
said yes to.

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"ScrapDollyGirl" wrote in
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I accidently hit 'default' after changing the margins in a letter
thinking
it
would put it back to the default, but it MADE it the default! Doh
Does anyone know the default cm's?