[compuclod]

Hi, hopefully someone can help me with this somewhat minor, but annoying problem with Microsoft Word 2003.

Any time I open a new document in Word 2003, the cursor is at the very top of the page. It's not at the vertical position that the page setup window says it should be at (1"), but it is in the proper left margin position.

To solve it, I have to go to the menu: Format>>Borders and Shading. I click on the Page Border tab (which is defaulted to "None") and click OK. At that point the cursor moves to the correct position.

I have to do this every time I open a new document to get the cursor in the right starting point for the doc. I assume this has something to do with the Normal.dot template, but I can't figure out how to fix it. I've tried editing and saving Normal.dot with the cursor in the correct position, but that hasn't solved the problem.

Help would be greatly appreciated!

[jimr381]

Welcome to the forum.

You have it hiding the "White Space" at the top of the "Print Layout" view. To stop this from happening you will want to go to the border at the page at the very top and you will see an icon with two arrows pointing north and south that says "Show White Space." If you click on this icon it should get you what you want.

[compuclod]

Brilliant! That did it! Haven't used this site in a while, but so glad I came back. My own company IT support wouldn't help me with this, and you solved it instantly! Thanks jimr381!