Ha! This happened to me and drove me nuts for about 2 days before I happened across the fix. I'm assuming you have office 2003 or 2007, and are in print layout view.
On your screen, you see the white "page" with a dark grey background. Place your mouse at the very top of the white page part(there is a thin grey line of background showing between the page and the top buttons). Your mouse will change to two arrows and there is the message "Show whitespace" that pops up.
If you click, it will show you the top margin. EDIT: Just found another way. Click Tools > Options.
On the View tab, check the box that says "Whitespace between pages". Hope this helps!
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