Q. When I open Word, it automatically evokes a new file (Document1) as a blank document page. That’s fine if I want to start a new document, but more often than not, I just want to open an existing ...

Of course, the other two Word documents were open too. She says that no longer works.<br><br>This is where I may be wrong, but I have never seen this before in Word 2003.

Although Microsoft Word is a blank slate when you open a new document, the software can quickly appear to have a mind of its own when you're working on multi-paged documents.

Just erasing it won’t do the trick; you need to copy the entire document—that is, all but the final paragraph mark. Here are the steps: Open a new, blank document (Ctrl+N). Return to the slow file, ...

Now, you can open and edit a PDF in Word 2013 to fill in blanks or to make changes to the existing file. I can’t promise that the exchange will be exact — there are still features that just ...