MS Word Document won't go away

I'm using a mid-2012 11"MBA running OSX 10.8.2 and I've been having trouble with MS Word '11. It's always been a bit crash-prone, but sometimes if I'm working on a document full screen it will lock up and then cover up the main desktop instead of its own and hide everything, including the dock. Mission control, expose, and show desktop all don't work, only launchpad, but it goes right back to the document blocking everything. Quitting word will usually fix it, but it's super annoying. Anyone got a clue?

What about what is on the previous page, do you have objects with auto wrap on that could be pushing something over to a new page?
e.g. There could be a last paragraph return or page break on the previous page that causes a blank page after.
Clicking on the last page and hitting delete usually clears those. You have to think in formatting terms, that is how Pages is managing the pages.
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