On the Layout tab of Page Setup, change the vertical alignment from
Justified to Top.

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"Gunner5" wrote in message
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I have Word 2003. When I hit the carriage return (enter key) the cursor
jumps 1/3 of the way down the page instead of the next line. I have my
line
spacing default set at 1 line. What is causing this? Thanks