Another Mac Word problem

[Konstantinos Armiros]

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.

 

[matt neuburg]

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.

 

[Konstantinos Armiros]

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