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Word opens a new doc in its header

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by smusick 1 view

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When opening a new document in Word 2003, the cursor is positioned in the header. To move to the body of the doc, I must first close the header view. This is annoying because of the wasted time.

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by amanda.french

Holy Moses, thanks! That was annoying, and your solution worked great. I didn't even notice the lack of "white space" between pages in Print Layout, which is the view I like to work in.

by ljvng

This problem popped up in Word 2003 after I had been using it for a while. I looked and looked for a solution and couldn't find one. It has happened again in Word 2007. It just seemed to come out of nowhere. I have no idea how I could have changed the setting without knowing it, but I am so happy that you provided this simple fix. Thank you.

by hawkdriver007

The reply above addresses a different issue. In MS Word 2003 go to tools then options. Under the general tab select "Allow starting in reading layout". Now every time you open Word it the cursor will be below the header where it should be.

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