Thanks for your reply. I am even more lost though now. I have tried using Styles (which I have never done before) to remove paragraph breaks from the start of pages, but I have no idea how to go about doing this.

Even though I have a 9000 page document I'm beginning to think it may just be easier to manually remove them all.

Word hasn't really made the whole Styles thing very user friendly, at least I cannot seem to get it to work.

Is there any other way to achieve what I want to do?