[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I had this problem and finally learned that it was a result of having the
ruler turned off in Print Preview. Every time I switched to Print Preview
and back, the next window I opened didn't have the ruler displayed. Like
you, I had finally, in desperation, added the View Ruler button to a
toolbar, but I no longer need it now that I added the ruler back to Print
Preview (even though I don't need it there and it takes up valuable space).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"lhall33950" wrote in message
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I have Word 2003. My horizontal ruler (located beneath the toolbars) keeps
disappearing from documents with no rhyme or reason. I got so frustrated
that
I finally added the "View Ruler" command to my custom toolbar. Can you
tell
me why this is happening and how to make it stop (without having to use
the
view ruler command)?