[mso] Phantom Right Margin in Word2003

To All,

I'm back again with a formatting problem in the astro club newsletter. In your 
responses to my question dated 12/11 with a subject line of "Picture or 
Textbox Order in Word 2003 Document", Dian, James, and Jonathan all pointed to 
my use of section breaks. Dian said, "... the problem has to do with the fact 
that you have a couple of duplicate CONTINUOUS SECTION BREAKS at the top of 
the doc."

I am now going back over some earlier editions, and I have removed all section 
breaks from page one.As I was working with the document for July 2008, the 
right margin of part of page one acted like it was reset to the 6-inch mark, 
but I didn't move the margin. In fact, in Print Layout View, the ruler at the 
top of the page shows the right margin correctly set at 7.5 inches. This 
phantom right margin, however will not allow text to flow beyond the 6-inch 
position.

I have three pictures and a text box on page one, and they ARE allowed to 
extend beyond the 6-inch position. The page also contains a table of contents 
in a frame along the left margin. Jonathan said, "Why it is a Frame and not a 
Text Box I do not know." I tried to use a text box for the TOC, but that 
messed up the formatting entirely.

You can see just page one (with the phantom margin) at ==>

   www.asterism.org/shapp/2008-07PageOne.doc

It is 346 kilobytes. You will notice that I have temporarily reduced the size 
of the main picture so that the rest of the content will fit on one page. 
Also, I have reset the tabs on the line showing "Volume XIX  No. 10 July 2008" 
and the line showing the title and author because the right parts of those 
lines would otherwise go invisible beyond the 6-inch position.

In Page Setup, I have specified 8.5x11-inch paper with left and right margins 
0.5 inches wide.

My question: What is causing the phantom right margin, and how can I reset it 
to the 7.5-inch position as shown on the ruler?

Thanks again for your patience and continued generous help!

Ray Shapp


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