Word 2003: Text wraps to new line 1" prior to margin. Why?

[dkents]

Suddenly today when I type text on a new document, the text wraps
approximately one inch prior to reaching the margin...on all lines whether
the word is a long or short one. Why is it suddenly doing this? A different
document that I worked on yesterday is fine. Help.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Perhaps the paragraph has a right indent?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jerry]

Sounds like somehow you have a right indent applied to the paragraphs. Go to
Format - Paragraph and see what the indents look like. If there's a right
indent, set it to 0".

If this happens with every new document, you've probably got a messed up
Normal template. Go to
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm and check how to
clean up the template.

Jerry

 

[dkents]

Jerry,

Thanks for the help. There was no right indent set but it appears my Normal
Template was the somehow corrupt. Using the link you provided I was able to
resolve the issue. I ended up locating and renaming the Normal.dot file and
then when I re-launched Word it apparently created a new Normal.dot file that
is the same as the original file when the software was new. It now seems to
work properly. Thank you again!

dkents

 

[Jerry]

You're welcome.

Jerry,

Thanks for the help. There was no right indent set but it appears my Normal
Template was the somehow corrupt. Using the link you provided I was able to
resolve the issue. I ended up locating and renaming the Normal.dot file and
then when I re-launched Word it apparently created a new Normal.dot file that
is the same as the original file when the software was new. It now seems to
work properly. Thank you again!

dkents