Thanks for the reply OTPM, but I managed to do a workaround and am okay at the moment. But now I seem to have another problem. I've been working on a manuscript with the 'view' set to 'print layout' I like this because it lets me see separate pages against a gray background. But while working on the manuscript, the view suddenly changed and the pages are now connected with a black line. I tried getting the 'print layout' view back but for some reason I can't. ???