Why no spacing before the paragraph

I'm guessing there's some kind of exception for this but I can't find anything in 17.3.1.33.
In the attached document, when it's the first paragraph in the document, the spacing before is applied. But after a hard page break, it isn't.
Why?
thanks - dave
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As for #1, I found that the compatibility settings do indeed work, but to get them to work, you have to save the file as a .doc then resave it as a .docx with compatibility settings:
This blog by Cindy Meister talks about how to get the compatibility settings to show up again:
http://blogs.msmvps.com/wordmeister/2013/02/04/word-2013-the-layout-options/
I tested this and it works:
1. save the .docx as a .doc
2. set the compatibility setting you want; i.e. suppress before spacing after a hard page break
3. save the file as a .docx again, selecting the "Maintain compatibility with previous versions of Word" check box.
If you do this, you'll see a settings section like this one:
    <w:compat>
        <w:suppressTopSpacing/>
        <w:suppressSpBfAfterPgBrk/>
        <w:useFELayout/>
        <w:useNormalStyleForList/>
        <w:doNotUseIndentAsNumberingTabStop/>
        <w:useAltKinsokuLineBreakRules/>
        <w:allowSpaceOfSameStyleInTable/>
        <w:doNotSuppressIndentation/>
        <w:doNotAutofitConstrainedTables/>
        <w:autofitToFirstFixedWidthCell/>
        <w:displayHangulFixedWidth/>
        <w:splitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
        <w:doNotVertAlignCellWithSp/>
        <w:doNotBreakConstrainedForcedTable/>
        <w:doNotVertAlignInTxbx/>
        <w:useAnsiKerningPairs/>
        <w:cachedColBalance/>
        <w:compatSetting w:name="compatibilityMode" w:uri="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word" w:val="11"/>
    </w:compat>
And the settings appear to work.
Without compatibility mode, the behaviour is locked in to suppressing the "before" spacing after a hard page break.
On to #2...
Tom

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