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Old January 5th, 2005, 08:57 PM
Gary
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word started opening with the cursor blinking in the very top left handed
corner - instead of the usual format, which is indented. How do I restore the
original formatting?
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Old January 5th, 2005, 09:03 PM
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In Word, click on Tools | Options | View | check the "White space
between pages" box | OK.

Gary wrote:

word started opening with the cursor blinking in the very top left handed
corner - instead of the usual format, which is indented. How do I restore the
original formatting?


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Old January 5th, 2005, 09:23 PM
Gary
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i don't have that option on that menu!

"Gary" wrote:

word started opening with the cursor blinking in the very top left handed
corner - instead of the usual format, which is indented. How do I restore the
original formatting?

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Old January 5th, 2005, 09:30 PM
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What version of Word do you have? Another possibility is that you have
accidentally changed from Print Layout view to Normal view.

Gary wrote:

i don't have that option on that menu!

"Gary" wrote:


word started opening with the cursor blinking in the very top left handed
corner - instead of the usual format, which is indented. How do I restore the
original formatting?


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Old January 5th, 2005, 10:35 PM
Gary
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Office 2000 Premium - layout is print and changing views doesn't help - i may
have fixed the problem by setting new defaults in page setup - do you know
what the standard defaults should be??

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

What version of Word do you have? Another possibility is that you have
accidentally changed from Print Layout view to Normal view.

Gary wrote:

i don't have that option on that menu!

"Gary" wrote:


word started opening with the cursor blinking in the very top left handed
corner - instead of the usual format, which is indented. How do I restore the
original formatting?



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Old January 5th, 2005, 10:45 PM
garfield-n-odie
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If the problem is fixed, don't worry about what the defaults should be.
You can restore most of Word's default settings by closing Word,
renaming the normal.dot global template file to normal.old (or some
other filename of your choice), and restarting Word. Word will
automatically create a new normal.dot containing the default settings.

Gary wrote:

Office 2000 Premium - layout is print and changing views doesn't help - i may
have fixed the problem by setting new defaults in page setup - do you know
what the standard defaults should be??

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:


What version of Word do you have? Another possibility is that you have
accidentally changed from Print Layout view to Normal view.

Gary wrote:


i don't have that option on that menu!

"Gary" wrote:



word started opening with the cursor blinking in the very top left handed
corner - instead of the usual format, which is indented. How do I restore the
original formatting?




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Old January 6th, 2005, 06:31 PM
Rick Lederman
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I had the same problem, and the suggestion about White Space Between Pages
seems to have fixed it, however I find it interesting that before applying
that fix I discovered that the proper top margin was displayed if I told
Word to show headers & footers then closed the headers & footers.

I had tried to delete my Normal.dot, that did not help! We will see if
checking the white space box fixes it after restarting Word.

Rick Lederman
Soaring Software Solutions, Inc.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote in message
...
If the problem is fixed, don't worry about what the defaults should be.
You can restore most of Word's default settings by closing Word,
renaming the normal.dot global template file to normal.old (or some
other filename of your choice), and restarting Word. Word will
automatically create a new normal.dot containing the default settings.

Gary wrote:

Office 2000 Premium - layout is print and changing views doesn't help -

i may
have fixed the problem by setting new defaults in page setup - do you

know
what the standard defaults should be??

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:


What version of Word do you have? Another possibility is that you have
accidentally changed from Print Layout view to Normal view.

Gary wrote:


i don't have that option on that menu!

"Gary" wrote:



word started opening with the cursor blinking in the very top left

handed
corner - instead of the usual format, which is indented. How do I

restore the
original formatting?





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Old January 7th, 2005, 07:14 AM
Graham Mayor
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Replacing normal.dot will not help with this issue as the setting is stored
in the registry. It is a toggle setting that is all too easily activated. It
came as a shock when I activated it accidentally by clicking the space at
the top of the page. See http://www.gmayor.com/white_space.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Rick Lederman wrote:
I had the same problem, and the suggestion about White Space Between
Pages seems to have fixed it, however I find it interesting that
before applying that fix I discovered that the proper top margin was
displayed if I told Word to show headers & footers then closed the
headers & footers.

I had tried to delete my Normal.dot, that did not help! We will see
if checking the white space box fixes it after restarting Word.

Rick Lederman
Soaring Software Solutions, Inc.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote in
message ...
If the problem is fixed, don't worry about what the defaults should
be. You can restore most of Word's default settings by closing
Word,
renaming the normal.dot global template file to normal.old (or some
other filename of your choice), and restarting Word. Word will
automatically create a new normal.dot containing the default
settings.

Gary wrote:

Office 2000 Premium - layout is print and changing views doesn't
help - i may have fixed the problem by setting new defaults in page
setup - do you know what the standard defaults should be??

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:


What version of Word do you have? Another possibility is that you
have accidentally changed from Print Layout view to Normal view.

Gary wrote:


i don't have that option on that menu!

"Gary" wrote:



word started opening with the cursor blinking in the very top
left handed corner - instead of the usual format, which is
indented. How do I restore the original formatting?



 




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