Both Luc and Stefan have pointed you in the right direction. The likelihood
is that vertical alignment is set to Center instead of Top. But note that
you do NOT have to find or open Normal.dot to correct this. Just open a new
blank document and, without making any other changes, change the alignment
in Page Setup, then click Default... and answer Yes. For more on changing
Word's default settings, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"Marcel" wrote in message
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Recently, when i start word, the text line begins in the middle of the
page
as supposed to the top of the page, and even though i have tried backspace
and the mouse to go back to the top of the page, this hasn't worked. Can
anyone be of help.

Many thanks