Conclude the discussion we had on koffice-devel 4 months ago.
<a href="http://lists.kde.org/?t=114790285100001&r=1&w=2">http://lists.kde.org/?t=114790285100001&r=1&w=2</a>;

In contrary to MsWord KWord will (still) not show linespacing at the top of a page. Being typographically correct as well as complient with lots of DTP apps is more important then being backwards compatible with one dominating app.

There are two ways the user can force a line-margin at the top of the page
1) by using a style that has both a topMargin and the option "Page break before"
2) manually setting a spacing on the paragraph instead of on the style.