i am trying to edit a document, and its no more then 50 additional words, and
word begins to add thousands of pages. I know how to return to the point
before editing, but have not figured out how to prevent the pages from
appearing.

That is a symptom of a corrupt Word file. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm .

bjornhilo wrote:

i am trying to edit a document, and its no more then 50 additional words, and
word begins to add thousands of pages. I know how to return to the point
before editing, but have not figured out how to prevent the pages from
appearing.