This is a rather sensitive toggle setting. If you click in the areas above
or below the 'page' you will toggle the setting, which remains so set until
you click it again. You can force Word to open with the preferred display by
using auto macros.

Add the line

ActiveWindow.View.DisplayPageBoundaries = True

to both an autonew and an autoopen macro and then at least it will start
with the headers displayed.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


BorisS wrote:
and one more question...it fixed the problem initially, but it's
still there when I closed and reopened. Any way to save the change?

For screen shots and further explanation, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote in message
...
Move your cursor to the very edge. It will change from an arrow to
a square with a dark line across the center. Click. :-)

(I have to thank Suzanne for showing me that several months ago. It
was happening to me and I didn't know why. I searched the archives
of this group and found her advice. I was going bonkers trying to
figure out what the heck happened to my margins.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"BorisS" wrote in message
...
I usually keep my view in page layout view. For some reason, when
I start now, the top of the page butts up right to the top ruler.
The left ruler starts with 0 and goes down, but both the margins
for top and the preview indicate that there is an inch or so
there. I used to see that inch on the
ruler as a blue shaded region, before the ruler would show the
white area which indicated the writeable area.

Any ideas of what I can do to get my view back to how it used to
be?

Thx.
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Boris