Justified right indent not matching setting

[seanbaski]

I am working in Word 07. Have document that is justified. I set the
right indent at the margin, but the text is offset from that about
1/4" to the inside. If I move it out then it moves out, but I don't
want to have to set right indent 1/4" outside of margin. Any
suggestions? I have checked paragraph settings and nothing looks out
of the ordinary. Can send screen shot

 

[Peter A]

I am working in Word 07. Have document that is justified. I set the
right indent at the margin, but the text is offset from that about
1/4" to the inside. If I move it out then it moves out, but I don't
want to have to set right indent 1/4" outside of margin. Any
suggestions? I have checked paragraph settings and nothing looks out
of the ordinary. Can send screen shot

Why are you setting a right indent? You do not need a right indent
unless you want the text to end somewhere to the left of the margin.

 

[seanbaski]

Why are you setting a right indent? You do not need a right indent

unless you want the text to end somewhere to the left of the margin.

You set the right indent on a justified document (usually the margin
unless changed).

Never-the-less somehow it fixed itself when I was messing around with
some tables. I don't know how it did it. I have an old version of the
document where it still has the problem if needed.

I am pretty good with word, so it wasn't anything obvious. Probably
just a bug that fixed itself.....

Anyways cheers.

 

[Peter A]

You set the right indent on a justified document (usually the margin
unless changed).

No you don't. An indent is, by definition, an offset from the margin.

 

[seanbaski]

No you don't. An indent is, by definition, an offset from the margin.

OK so obviously we are not on the same page. The issue was that the
right indent was set over the margin (0" right), however the justified
text was not going to the margin instead it was indented in a fraction
of an inch.

In summary I did not want an indent and Word was producing one with no
settings to do so.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As seanbaski points out, the Right Indent marker is by default at the margin
on the horizontal ruler. The point was that there was no indent but Word was
acting as if there were.

 

[Peter A]

OK so obviously we are not on the same page. The issue was that the
right indent was set over the margin (0" right), however the justified
text was not going to the margin instead it was indented in a fraction
of an inch.

In summary I did not want an indent and Word was producing one with no
settings to do so.

OK, I misunderstood at first. I have not seen your problem. The simplest
solution is to change the margin setting to get the actual margin you
want, for example 0.9" to get a 1" margin - apparently you need to have
your document formatted quite precisely. I think you could also specify
a negative right indent to get the same effect. Both are kludges, but if
there's another solution I don't know it.