Word suddenly will not display top/bottom margins

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Greetings.

Today, without any known input from me, Word started acting oddly...

When I create a new document, Word (2003 SP2) will not display the
blank area of the top and bottom margins - only the printable section
of the page is shown (View mode is "whole page"). However, the blank
area of the left/right margins are displayed as normal.

(screenshot here: http://DavidFilmer.com/word.jpg 88KB)

This does not actually affect the functionality of the document, but
it is very annoying.

If I read a previously-created document it displays normally (with the
blank region of the top/bottom margins shown).

I cannot see how this new behavior was enabled, or how to disable
it...

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

 

[Jay Freedman]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm

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Seehttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm

Thanks, Jay - that is exactly what I needed to know.

I must have clicked the bottom edge of a page. I had no idea that
doing so would make the vertical margins go away! But, as Suzanne
says, it is something that can be easily done without meaning to.