Problem with font size suddenly small...using Word 2007 and Vista

[HereSince1628]

on a HP Pavilion.

In all our new documents the font sizes have suddenly become smaller than they should be.

The machine still says that we have 8.5 x 11 paper in portrait as the default, but 80 characters of Calibri in size 12 don't reach across halfway the page.

Old documents don't have this problem and they can be edited and the font doesn't have this problem.

Anyone have any ideas?

I share the machine with the SO; neither of us knows what we might have done to cause it.

Both of us have academic accounts and must download documents from known colleagues at other institutions. Being as academic systems are hackers favorite playgrounds I wonder if this is a consequence of some malware. A system scan with up to date Norton security didn't show anything.

[PennDem]

1. Have you checked the margins

and page orientation settings? I tried the same font & size as you used and that doesn't seem unusual depending on the style you have selected. Highlight your text and try clearing the formatting style or set the style to normal.

[HereSince1628]

2. I had checked the margins....the problem was the default page set-up was super-scripted!!!!!!!

Not sure how that happened.

Undoubtedly a couple of loose nuts behind the keyboard!

Thanks for you help.