CyberTaz said:
Well, not to split hairs, john but the right margin is effectively a part of
the paragraph
Notice how the pointer continues to appear as an I-beam.
Hmm.... you don't *really* want to go there, do you? Basing the
"paragraph/margin" boundary on the *cursor shape*?? Really??? <vbg>
Let's try a little experiment:
In Page Layout view (with an insertion point selection so the I-beam
pointer shows when hovering over text), move the cursor to the grey area
to the left of the "paper". Note that the cursor is a
*left-pointing-arrow*. Triple click. Note that the entire text is
selected.
Now click in the text to reset the cursor to an I-beam. Move the cursor
to the grey are to the right of the "paper". Note that the cursor is a
*left-pointing-arrow* (!!) as in the steps above. Triple Click. What do
you see?
"Wait", you say. When moving to the left, the cursor changes from left-
to right- then back to left-pointing-arrow. Obviously a visual clue that
the regions are different, right?
"Not so fast", I retort. Start with the cursor in the left grey area,
then move down and around to the right, staying in the completely
undifferentiated grey area. No change to the cursor. But different
behavior. Odd.
Now insert a couple of multi-line footnotes.
Triple click in the grey area below and to the right of the "paper". The
selection is a zero-width *insertion point* before the last paragraph
mark.
Triple click in the grey area directly below the "paper". The last
footnote *paragraph* is selected.
Triple click in the grey area below and to the left of the "paper". The
last *line* of the last paragraph is selected.
In all of the above three cases, the cursor is a *left-pointing-arrow*.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results, MS is doing it's part to keep us sane - we
actually *get* different results!
Don't even get me started on Publishing Layout View, where there's a
*clear* blue-line visual demarcation between text and margin, yet the
behavior still is different.
The real answer (IMNSHO) is that the left margin was jimmied by MS to
work differently than the right margin. But that doesn't make the right
margin any less a "margin". Nor is it "part" of the paragraph. There are
no paragraph properties which affect the margin. Paragraphs have indent
properties instead.
OK, the hair's been split to picometer thickness... <vbg>
