See if there is a negative right indent set for the text paragraph in the affected cells.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
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Hello Stefan

Many thanks for your speedy email.

I'm sorry that I have to ask you this, but how will I know that "there is a negative right indent set"? What do I look for, please?

Sorry to be a pain.

Click in the text paragraph (in the cell). On the Home tab, click the dialog launcher button in the Paragraph group to display the Paragraph dialog box.


Under "Indentation," what do you see in the "Right" box? If the value there is negative, you want to change it.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
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Hello Stefan

Many, many thanks for your response - it worked like a dream! I'm so pleased and grateful for you showing me that. I could not find any reference to it in any of my books on Word, even though it is obviously very important to people such as I who were struggling with layouts! The next question is how did I manage to get a negative value in the first place ...?

Thanks once again.

Richard

If you copied and pasted text paragraphs from some other source, it is possible that is where the negative indent comes from.

Alternatively, the indents might have been created in the table style itself.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

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