I deleted and back spaced the paragraph mark to no effect. It was not preceded by a section break but there was a continuous page break. I just added some text to the page and went with it.

I'm really not much good with computers or Word any more. I have some help in the computer department, but sometimes this word processing stuff just flummoxes me. What is the easiest, most intuitive, least expensive method of learning this monster of a program?

What do you mean by "continuous page break"? The closest thing that Word offers is a continuous section break, which would add a paragraph mark if the break was at the very bottom of a page. The formatting fix I suggested in my previous post would take care of it.

Unfortunately, there is no single place where you can learn "everything" about Word. Late MVP Shauna Kelly collected a large number of helpful articles on her web site www.shaunakelly.com, and you should start with reading on styles and templates:

http://www.shaunakelly.com/topic/word/styles

http://www.shaunakelly.com/topic/word/templates

Browse through the site, as it has a lot of useful articles. You should also take a look at MVP Suzanne S. Barnhill's web site at:

http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/

More links:

http://word.mvps.org

http://www.gmayor.com

http://gregmaxey.com

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Microsoft Word MVP

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I definitely vote for Shauna Kelly's site.

A good reference book can help, too.
Microsoft Word 2007 Bible by Herb Tyson

On Shauna's site I would start with Basic concepts of Microsoft Word: An introduction If you follow the advice there, you'll be ahead of 50% of experienced Word users. Learn as much as you can about Styles.