One style is giving me trouble

[Terri]

I have typed a screenplay for a customer, and I used
styles throughout for the first time, with good success.
However, there is one problem, and it occurs on every page.
I have a style that is to center the name of the
person speaking, and to "keep with" the paragraph below.
However, when this occurs at the top of a page, the name
of the person is not centered, but is over to the left a
couple of spaces.
I have checked and checked to make sure all the
centered paragraphs are the proper style, and they are--
it's the same style as the paragraphs below it, but it
doesn't behave the same. I was guessing that it had
something to do with a header (I have a page number
inserted at the top right side of every page), but I have
examined it and see nothing unusual.
Any help? Thanks!

 

[Alan Taylor]

Hi Terri:

I was able to duplicate the problem if there is a page
number in a frame, in the Header, and that frame gets
moved down a little below the normal header area.

If page numbers are inserted by Insert / Page Number, they
are in a frame. Go into the header, and maybe click
the "Show / Hide document text" button on the toolbar --
if you hide document text temporarily, perhaps any stray
frame will show up more clearly.

If you see such a frame, select it until it gets a dark
chalky outline, then press Delete.

Page numbers can be inserted by going View / Header and
Footer, then using the "#" icon on the Header/Footer
toolbar. You can position it to the upper right by
hitting Tab twice.

.... this may or may not be the problem.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UnaccountablyIndented.htm for a
visual representation of what Alan is describing.