I believe that it is a template. When you open up word 2013, it automatically goes to a list of many templates, including the basic blank document. This is different than the other versions of Word that I have used in the past. I have downloaded another template from microsoft which is single spaced blank document. That has the same problem. with the message. I have not made a new template, since I believe it would have the same problem.

Thanks for the response.