Another Mac Word problem

Before I ever used Word in my new G5 I was using i-photo to make a book of a
recent family vacation. I wrote the introductory text on the first page of
the book but the type was small and I couldn't read it that well. I decided
to copy the text and paste it onto a word page and print the page so I could
look over my intro and revise it as needed. Done.

Next day I decide to create a word doc and I opened a new document which
should have been blank. It wasn't. The new document was my text from that
intro. This was about a month ago. I can't get word to open a blank page.
I get the same text every time I try to create a new doc. I've searched
forums, cleared out my clipboard and tried every trick in my limited
arsenal. Nothing works. When I want to create a new doc, I open that old
friend, clear the page and start writing. Any thoughts about how I can
reset the opening default to a plain old blank document? I hope the answer
is obvious.

I knew it was something simple. Thank you very much for the tip. It
worked.


On 8/22/05 8:13 PM, in article 1h1pjuu.18lkbic8hnxukN%matt@tidbits.com,
"matt neuburg" <matt.TakeThisOut@tidbits.com> wrote:

> Konstantinos Armiros <armiros1.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Before I ever used Word in my new G5 I was using i-photo to make a book of a
>> recent family vacation. I wrote the introductory text on the first page of
>> the book but the type was small and I couldn't read it that well. I decided
>> to copy the text and paste it onto a word page and print the page so I could
>> look over my intro and revise it as needed. Done.
>>
>> Next day I decide to create a word doc and I opened a new document which
>> should have been blank. It wasn't. The new document was my text from that
>> intro. This was about a month ago. I can't get word to open a blank page.
>> I get the same text every time I try to create a new doc. I've searched
>> forums, cleared out my clipboard and tried every trick in my limited
>> arsenal. Nothing works. When I want to create a new doc, I open that old
>> friend, clear the page and start writing. Any thoughts about how I can
>> reset the opening default to a plain old blank document? I hope the answer
>> is obvious.
>
> When you open a new document in Word, you are opening your Normal
> template. Perhaps you've pasted and saved the text into your Normal
> template. If so, open the template and delete that text. m.
>