When I open a new word document there is already text on it.

[Peter Waldo]

When I open a brand new word document by clicking on the word icon a new
document opens which is titled document1 that alreay has text on it. How can
I make it so a new word document is empty when opened

 

[garfield-n-odie]

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