Ouch, I give up. I'm going back to Word. In addition to the four things causing problems in the post just above this one, Excel also messes up the date line when I try to add more lines. To fix this I had to change to scatter instead of line chart, which gave me the senseless borders on the left and right just like Word. So I was back to square one, but with additional problems. I guess we just have to live with Office being a buggy piece of shit.