MS Word help ... My header & footer nightmare

[house your seagull]

howdi,

whenever i open a new word document, the cursor starts right at the top of the page, ignoring the default margin settings.

to get round this and start the text in the correct position, i have to open header and footer and then press close on the h&f toolbar. very annoying.

i think it is opening a header by default, but can't find the setting to disable it.

frankly i've had enough, can anybody give any advice.

frustrated, manchester

 

[Acker79]

Are you sure it hasn't simply removed the margins? (hover the cursor over the very top of the page, right on the edge of it, and it will change to a double arrow in a square)

Or possibly your default page size needs to be reset?

Which version of word is it?

 

[Peteinblack]

Click on 'File' on toolbar, select 'Page set-up' from menu, click on 'Layout' option, and it will let you set your headers and footers to whatever specification you want.

 

[Acker79]

Or it might be the view setting. Click on 'View' and select 'print layout'.

 

[house your seagull]

Are you sure it hasn't simply removed the margins? (hover the cursor over the very top of the page, right on the edge of it, and it will change to a double arrow in a square)

Or possibly your default page size needs to be reset?

Which version of word is it?

its word 2003 ... seems pretty old for a compnay of the size i work at!

anyway - i have no ruler on the side of the document, only on the top, my margin settings are ok.

how do i get this ruler back - i think it might have soemthing to do with that.

 

[house your seagull]

i've fixed it - needed to check the view vertcial ruler in print view in tools / options / view

thanks.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I haven't got access to a copy of 2003, but isn't there a 'view' menu and then a 'ruler' option?