FWIW, Jay and I and many other MVPs are already working the Answers forums.
Although it is not ideal, you can download an NNTP bridge that allows you to
use *some* newsreaders to access the forums. For more, see
https://connect.microsoft.com/Micros...?wa=wsignin1.0. Thunderbird is
one of the targeted clients, and apparently some users are using it
successfully.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"richard" wrote in message
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On 5/12/2010 9:14 PM, Jay Freedman wrote:
Probably you have centered alignment applied to the empty paragraph
mark in the Normal.dotm template. With the cursor in that empty
paragraph, right-click and choose Paragraph to open the dialog. Change
the alignment to Left, click the Default button at the bottom of the
dialog, and confirm the change.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for a
couple of other ways to fix it.

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On Wed, 12 May 2010 19:04:05 -0400,
wrote:

Using Word 2007. When I first click on Word the blank page comes up with
the cursor in the top center of the page. Why is this, and how can I
make it appear on the left margin to begin a document?

thanks

Thank you, Jay. That did the trick. I'll certainly miss this newsgroup
once MS moves to forums.