Thanks to you both!  I didn't even know that paragraph window existed until now.  Alll I kept seeing in my panel off to the side was the Object and Layout tab.

It seems all my text boxes i have start the text in the center of the box vertically, then spaces it out as you type more.  is there a way to make it start at the top of the box and work down, just as if you were typing in Word or Notepad.  if someone only types a few lines, it looks kinda odd havin...