Your scroll bars will be gone until you turn them back on - they won't disappear just for the current document.

In the Display section, uncheck the Show Horizontal Scroll Bar and Show Vertical Scroll Bar options (or just one - you don't have to turn the both off).

In Word 2007, click the Office button and then click Word Options.

Click the File tab and choose Options (under Help) in the left pane.

In the Show section, uncheck the Horizontal Scroll Bar and Vertical Scroll Bar options or just one - you don't have to turn the both off).

They won't be for every one of course, but it does help to know these things are available, especially if you support a large number of users with varying needs. It occurred to me that others might want to know about these two scrolling features. Once I removed the scroll bars, I showed him Word's AutoScroll feature - another feature that I don't use, but he loved it. I can't imagine removing them, but I recently ran into someone who wanted to do just that. Word displays a horizontal and vertical scroll bar by default.

Turn off auto scroll