If Microsoft Word’s document scrolling has gone awry, here’s a fix<div id="link_wrapped_content">
<body><section class="wp-block-bigbite-multi-title"><div class="container"></div></section><p>My wife felt like she was back at a typewriter: her text in Word kept scrolling rightward as she typed, moving the left edge of her virtual paper off the screen to the left. She expected to hear a bell ding and have to find a virtual carriage-return lever.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the problem in Word was simple to fix: a negative right margin was the culprit. (And the solution discovered by our 14-year-old, proving that the Mac 911 impulse is a family inclination.) This can be set by accident when you set up style sheets or use the
Format > Paragraph dialog to configure margins.</p>
<ul><li>With a style sheet, choose
Format > Style, select the style sheet, and click
Modify. From the
Format menu in the lower-left corner, select
Paragraph and set
Right under Indentation to 0 or a positive value.</li><li>To modify local formatting, select within an offending paragraph or select a range of text or all text, and then choose
Format > Paragraph and change the value for Right in the Indentation section.</li></ul><div class="extendedBlock-wrapper block-coreImage undefined"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" src="
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If Microsoft Word’s document scrolling has gone awry, here’s a fix
