Stumped: Text will not align to margins

[SPinard]

All text in my document is supposed to be aligned to left and right
margins, but appears indented at both ends by a mysterious additional
0.33". Left and right margins are set to 0.5", and I see on the
horizontal ruler that "left indent", "hanging indent" and "first line
indent" markers are all aligned at 0.5", and the right indent marker is
aligned 0.5" from the right edge.

I reveal formatting for body text in the task pane. Paragraph style is
"Body Text", Alignment=Left, Indentation Left=0" Right=0". Section
margins (Left, Right, Top, Bottom) are all set to 0.5".

The "Body Text" style is set to "Normal + Space After: 6pt". The
Normal style has paragraph alignment=Left.

Nothing I can find explains why the text appears indented from the left
and right margins, and I'm stumped. Anyone have ideas?

TIA,
Steve Pinard

 

[Anne Troy]

Steve, are you sure that your text is not inside a table? Make sure you're
viewing table borders (Table-->Show gridlines). Also, make sure your text
isn't in a textbox--i.e., when you click in the text, do you get a box
around it?
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
www.MyExpertsOnline.com

 

[SPinard]

Thanks for the reply, Anne.

Text was neither in a text box nor in a table. It turned out to be
some form of document corruption. And thanks to your link, I was able
to utilize the "Recover a Corrupt Microsoft Word Document" article to
paste the contents into a new document. I'm not sure I would have
tried that. I was thinking of copy/pasting a piece at a time.

Thanks for the help.
- Steve