Thanks, but the vertical alignment *is* set at "Top." All settings seem to be what they should be. I have tried highlighting the extra space and changing the spacing settings, but they are already what they should be. It's as if the extra space were not there. And now I am getting an extra line, or I guess the equivalent of a line and a half, between *all* paragraphs, whenever I make a change. The formatting of my perfect manuscript is slowly but surely being destroyed!