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Gretchen is experiencing a problem that just started happening in Word. When she types a line of text and presses Enter, the cursor automatically skips to the end of the page. She has re-set the defaults, restarted the computer, even re-installed the software, but it is still happening.
The problem is probably because of a setting in the layout of the page, as defined in your Normal template. (Even if you reinstall the software, the installer doesn't overwrite an existing copy of the Normal template, so any settings it contained before are still there after the reinstall.) Here's what to do:
Figure 1. The Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog box.
This will help correct the problem in future documents. If the problem exists in documents you previously created, you'll need to load the document and perform the same steps on them individually.
If you have the vertical alignment (step 5) set to some other value, then Word tries to distribute your text across the page vertically according to the setting. This can make it seem like the cursor jumps to the end of the page when you press Enter; if the Vertical Alignment drop-down is set to Justified, then the jump would be exactly as described after pressing Enter.
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2015-11-05 13:19:01
Aum Jah
It's grate that you provide this information and I thank you for that ... but really, "Load your Normal template. You want to actually locate it on disk and load it"
I may be simple minded, but i really have no clue as to where to "locate it on disk" let alone how.
Thus, regrettably, I'm getting sent all over the internet because MS Word chooses to make us play there instead of giving us access to the system we paid for.
2015-02-13 00:07:27
Paul Michael Frazee
I need your help! Whenever I press the TAB button in a document I am writing the cursor drops all the way to the end of the document. I've tried everything known to man and can't get it to stop doing this. Suggestions?
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