When I go to the icon it still brings up my saved assignment and not a blank page. :cry: What do you mean by edit mode?
That's because you saved over the Normal template. You need to delete all the text, then click Save As, from the drop down list select Word Template. Then name it something other than Normal, maybe Normal2. Word won't let you save it with the same name as an open document. Close this file. Then click New, Normal2 template and it should open as a blank document. Now you save as Word Template - Normal. Hopefully this will clear the template. My husband did this and it took a lot of trial and error and re-naming files before we got it restored. Maybe someone knows of a command to restore default settings but I don't.
P.S. Virtualbernie posted while I was working on mine. Between the two of us we may have you confused or maybe you'll get things back to NORMAL :lol: