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Microsoft Word - cursor placed at top of page.

When creating a new document and in Print Layout, Word sometimes places the cursor right at the top of the page - not catering for the top margin.

I'm not sure why - can only presume this is a bug.

The workaround, to make it display the cursor where it should be (below the margin) seems to be to view the Header then hide the header:

Select menu item 'View' - 'Header and Footer' (this shows the header)
Do the same thing to hide it (Select menu item 'View' - 'Header and Footer').

That's it - the cursor should now be placed where it should be - so you can start typing text and see it in the correct position on the page.

HTH

Tim

posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:12 AM

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# re: Microsoft Word - cursor placed at top of page. 7/2/2008 8:19 AM Belle Diva

A fix for when cursor appears at the top of the page:

Tools, Options, on the View tab click White spaces between pages to turn it on. The feature some how was turned off which caused the cursor to move to the top of the page. What is wierd is that the status bar still showed the cursor at 1".

Hope this helps fix the problem.

# re: Microsoft Word - cursor placed at top of page. 8/29/2008 9:13 AM Steve

Just came on this by accident. If the cursor is at the top of the page, move the arrow/pointer to the very top of the page. Two little boxes will appear with arrows facing each other and a comment, 'show white space.' Click and the normal margins at the top & bottom come back. Click again and the white margins disappear. Superflous MSWord-ism?

# re: Microsoft Word - cursor placed at top of page. 9/10/2008 5:15 AM Graham Dolan

Found this answer from Google. Problem solved! Thanks

# re: Microsoft Word - cursor placed at top of page. 11/18/2008 10:56 PM Ric

Thanks for this. Solved a very irritating bug which can happen by accident with the slip of a mouse finger!

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