Since you've already done an Office repair, a fault in your Office installation, per se, is unlikely. And, since you say you're using Word's "blank document template" - which I take to mean Word's 'Normal' template - you should try deleting that and letting Word create a new one. Do note that creating a new 'Normal' template won't fix any existing documents - you would still have to do the 'repair' process I outlined in post #2. If that doesn't work, the next step would be to uninstall/reinstall Office.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]