Another possibility to check if garfield-n-odie's suggestion doesn't work...
go to FormatParagraph and make sure that Spacing Before/After and Line
Spacing are correctly set.

the cursor drops two thirds of the
way down the page

The behavior you describe doesn't sound like a Vertical Alignment issue.
'Center' would keep you in the middle of the page & 'Justified' would put
content at opposite margins (top & bottom).

It could also be due to an accidental modification of a Style, but try the
other ideas first.

Regards |:)

"kharrion" wrote:

On any new document, when i hit return, the cursor drops two thirds of the
way down the page for the next sentence!