Punctuation against right margin "squishing" text backwards

[blinkyzero]

Hi folks. I've recently started noticing something really irritating that Word 2007's been doing and I'm curious if there's any way to fix it.

Basically, if I write out a line and end it with a punctuation mark right up against the right margin (with the text set to be flush against the left margin, of course), the entire line gets pushed backwards a little and violates the left tab. This is maddening to look at as it makes one paragraph look slightly less indented than another.

I've tried everything I can think of aside from working with a monospace font like Courier (hurts my eyes ). I've been through every compatibility option I could find in the advanced options, and no dice. Any ideas?

Here's an image of what a line looks like before I add the final punctuation mark up against the margin. I've turned the grid on and colored the left tab red to make it obvious.


And here's an image of the same line with a period added. You can see how the text gets pushed backwards through the tab stop.


Is there any way to prevent this (such as allowing a final punctuation mark to "bleed over" into the right margin or break the line) or am I being needlessly OCD about it?

[Charles Kenyon]

Left tab? Left Indent? Left margin?

I have never seen this. I suspect there is more going on in the document.

Could you use the "Go Advanced" button and attach a sample problem document?

[blinkyzero]

Sure thing. I'll attach the one I used to make those images.

[blinkyzero]

Oh goodness, I believe you were right. Wow. I appear not to have set the indent properly.