header footer not showing when opening new document

Hi, when i open a new document in word 2003, the header and footer dont
display. I need to go to 'view header footer close' for it to display.
Yes i am in print view, yes I have unticked "different odd and even", and
yes i have unticked "Different first page".

my cursor is always displayed at the very edge of the top margin when i open
new documents. Even pressing the 'default' after i have done a 'view
header footer close' .. does not retain the header /footer view when
opening up new documents, even if i save the changes to the normal.dot file.
Yes i have "prompt to save Normal template" ticked.

By the way, i had Acrobat 7 installed, which apparently messes up
associations with normal.dot... I have hence uninstalled Acrobat,
uninstalled Office 2003.. but i still got a problem with the header footer
not showing by default.

Any help most appreciated.
cheers, voirin

See reply to your previous question posted only one hour ago.
Please do not multipost.

PWalker wrote:

Hi, when i open a new document in word 2003, the header and footer dont
display. I need to go to 'view header footer close' for it to display.
Yes i am in print view, yes I have unticked "different odd and even", and
yes i have unticked "Different first page".

my cursor is always displayed at the very edge of the top margin when i open
new documents. Even pressing the 'default' after i have done a 'view
header footer close' .. does not retain the header /footer view when
opening up new documents, even if i save the changes to the normal.dot file.
Yes i have "prompt to save Normal template" ticked.

By the way, i had Acrobat 7 installed, which apparently messes up
associations with normal.dot... I have hence uninstalled Acrobat,
uninstalled Office 2003.. but i still got a problem with the header footer
not showing by default.

Any help most appreciated.
cheers, voirin