InDesign documents opening off-centre

Hi,
Noticing a few bugs with the new CC apps and one that keeps cropping up is whenever I open an existing document (normally a landscape document) Indesign places it off-centre to the right of the screen. I've got the panels on the right docked to the right edge of the screen and the document isn't set to 'facing pages' which I know can sometimes create the same problem.
Not a major issue but just wondered if anyone gets the same problem and if there is a way to fix it.
Thanks

Eugene Tyson wrote:
I can't test this on my computer as I have XP and CC doesnt' work on it
It was never intended to, Eugene:
http://boblevine.us/is-your-computer-ready-for-adobes-new-creative-cloud-applications/

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