[Shannon]

My Microsoft Word 2007 randomly started defaulting the top margin to about
the 4 inch level. It is literally half way down the page, and will not allow
me to move up any further. I've attempted to change my margins, and they say
that they are 1inch all around.

Help!?!?!

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Try turning on your hidden characters (Home Tab, Paragraph Group, Show/Hide)
or CTRL+SHIFT+* to toggle them on. See if you are not pushing around some
empty paragraphs.

Another thought that I have is that the Page Layout is set to Centered or
Justified instead of Top. Go to the Page Layout Tab and click the dialog
launcher (square in right corner) of the Page Setup Group. Click into the
Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog box, and check to make sure that the
Vertical Page Alignment is set to Top.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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"Shannon" wrote in message
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My Microsoft Word 2007 randomly started defaulting the top margin to about
the 4 inch level. It is literally half way down the page, and will not allow
me to move up any further. I've attempted to change my margins, and they say
that they are 1inch all around.

Help!?!?!

[Shannon]

I thank you so very much. I'm a college student with a week of two papers to
write and a Word that wouldn't work. You were correct in your thinking that
it was the page setup. Mine defaults to center...so now I need to change
that. But thank you for your advice. Something so simple and obvious and yet
I didn't have it correct. Thank you SO MUCH!

"Dawn Crosier, Word MVP" wrote:

Try turning on your hidden characters (Home Tab, Paragraph Group, Show/Hide)
or CTRL+SHIFT+* to toggle them on. See if you are not pushing around some
empty paragraphs.

Another thought that I have is that the Page Layout is set to Centered or
Justified instead of Top. Go to the Page Layout Tab and click the dialog
launcher (square in right corner) of the Page Setup Group. Click into the
Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog box, and check to make sure that the
Vertical Page Alignment is set to Top.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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"Shannon" wrote in message
...
My Microsoft Word 2007 randomly started defaulting the top margin to about
the 4 inch level. It is literally half way down the page, and will not allow
me to move up any further. I've attempted to change my margins, and they say
that they are 1inch all around.

Help!?!?!

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Shannon -

I'm glad that you got it figured out! Thanks for letting me know what the
solution was!

As for changing the Default - open a blank document, set your margins and
change to the Top. In that same dialog box, in the lower left corner is a
default button, that when clicked will change the margins, and other options
in the entire dialog box to the standard for all future documents. (It
modifies the Normal.dotm template.)

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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"Shannon" wrote in message
...
I thank you so very much. I'm a college student with a week of two papers to
write and a Word that wouldn't work. You were correct in your thinking that
it was the page setup. Mine defaults to center...so now I need to change
that. But thank you for your advice. Something so simple and obvious and yet
I didn't have it correct. Thank you SO MUCH!

"Dawn Crosier, Word MVP" wrote:

Try turning on your hidden characters (Home Tab, Paragraph Group,
Show/Hide)
or CTRL+SHIFT+* to toggle them on. See if you are not pushing around some
empty paragraphs.

Another thought that I have is that the Page Layout is set to Centered or
Justified instead of Top. Go to the Page Layout Tab and click the dialog
launcher (square in right corner) of the Page Setup Group. Click into the
Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog box, and check to make sure that the
Vertical Page Alignment is set to Top.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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to the group so that others can learn as well.
"Shannon" wrote in message
...
My Microsoft Word 2007 randomly started defaulting the top margin to about
the 4 inch level. It is literally half way down the page, and will not
allow
me to move up any further. I've attempted to change my margins, and they
say
that they are 1inch all around.

Help!?!?!