In the WP I moved the cursor onto a line and pressed [Home] but it is still several inches from the left hand edge of the screen – whats going on?
Either, the paragraph into which the cursor has been positioned is set to be centred – use Style/Change Paragraph Format and change it from Centred to one of the other options such as Left-aligned. This will just affect the single paragraph in which the cursor is positioned. If you want this change to apply to all paragraphs in the document that have the same style then use Style/Edit a Paragraph Style and then change the “Para. Format” within that. Or, the paragraph has an indent. If you look at the tab ruler at the top of the screen you’ll see two half black triangles towards the left hand side. The top one shows the point to which the first line of a paragraph will be indented and the bottom one shows the point to which all subsequent lines will be indented. Use the Styles/Change Para format or Styles/Edit a para style/Para Format buttons to either change the indent on a single para or on all similar paragraphs throughout the document.