MS Word problem

chrislusty · 23 Jan 2006 at 10:54

I have word 2003 installed, and recently when i open it, the cursor is right at the top of the page, to get it back to normal, i have to click, View, Header and Footer, Close, the cursor is now in the correct place.

So does anybody know as to why it has decided to do this? as im :confused:

|Ric| · 23 Jan 2006 at 11:30

are you referring to the buttons in the bottom left of the screen that change your view of the document?

If you open the view menu from the toolbar, which of the top 5 options is selected? You probably want to select Print Layout opposed to Normal which seems to be what you are describing

|Ric| · 23 Jan 2006 at 11:34

The other thing you might be describing is that when you are in print layout you can hide white space (it sounds like you have set it to hide as default)

"You can hide white space by default by clicking Options on the Tools menu and clearing the White space between pages check box on the View tab."

It is a little hard to explain how to show/hide white space, but if you look in the help for "Show or hide white space in print layout view " it gives you a diagram

chrislusty · 23 Jan 2006 at 13:07

No its not that, will post screen shots whn i get a chance later.

I always use "Print Layout View" and have never changed it, will hopefuly explain it better with pics!

chrislusty · 23 Jan 2006 at 13:46

This is the problem i have got,

the text is at the top, but i have to open headers and footers, then close headers and footers, and my text will go back to where it should be.

Caged · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:09

Hover on that grey strip between the document and the toolbar. Your cursor will change. Click.

|Ric| · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:41

I told you how to fix that in my second post, I even told you how to stop it doing by default