Macbook help please - I can't see the bottom of the screen

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My Macbook is 2 years old so Apple won't help me.

I have only ever used it to browse the internet and for photo storage etc

I have never been able to access Numbers or Pages as I can't get beyond the Getting Started screen as i can't see the full window.
I've ignored this and continues to produce doc on my old Windows desktop.

I am going away early tomorrow and need to be able to access and edit a couple of Office docs. So i have downloaded Microsoft Office.
It has downloaded fine I click to open it and can see and click the Get Started button which then asks me to choose my theme - Colourful or Classic.
Whichever one I choose nothing happens - I've tried ENTER, I've tried arrow down button, arrow right button. Nothing.
But again I feel like I can't see the full window, as though there might be a CONTINUE bottom that I can't see,

Please can anyone help me?

Thanks

bump

In system preferences/dock unselect automatically hide and show dock.

Also F3.

there is also an option for where the icons are stored you can change the position and have a play with it.

You can also open all apps using the search facility - top left of the screen.

The apps screen at the bottom should be there when you put you mouse pointer at the bottom of the screen.

Thank you so much Wally.... my dock was always visible so blocking the bottom of many screens.
Now it only appears when i move the cursor to the bottom of the screen.

Problem solved; many many thanks