Initial View - Default Setup (Acrobat 9.0 Pro)

Hi everyone,
This may be a dumb question but I just can't seem to find how to change the default page number in the "Initial View" tab - under Document Properties.
My pdfs are always opening up on page 4 (small thing - but annoying!). I can change the value to "1" for each pdf, but I don't want to have to do this everytime i generate a pdf.
There must be a way to change the default value from "4" to "1" (I hope).
Can anyone help with this?
Thank you,
Tina

Never mind - I just found the option under "Save PDF" that allows me to select the page number.
Just didn't expect it to be there ... sorry about that !
tvb

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