[mso] Re: Phantom Right Margin in Word2003

I was able to cut this down to just the text involved.  Deleting the picture 
and all the other boxes made no difference to the text width.

Turning on Options / View / Text boundaries showed me that the text boundary 
matches what you're seeing.  But the ruler is saying that the margin is OK.

I tried Format / Columns.  This showed a single column with a width of 15.23 
cm.  That is the width of the text you're getting.  I clicked the up spin 
button on the Width box and it jumped to 19.05, which is the proper text 
width.  Clicked OK and the text was back to the correct width.

Somehow your document is set to single-column 15.23 cm, even though this is 
supposed to be an impossible setting.  You just need to reset the column 
width to get it back.

Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Shapp" <ras45@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 7:44 PM
Subject: [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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