How do I delete a pasted email which automatically shows in Word?

[jack the dog]

I copied and pasted a hotmail email to a file but the same email always
automatically appears when Word is opened. How do I stop this happening so
that when Word is opened, a blank document appears?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm