If you are tracking changes or insert a comment, the default view is Final
Showing Markup, which allows an extra-wide margin to accommodate the
"balloons."

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"Terry McM" wrote in message
...
I went into the "View" column and clicked on "Markup" and the paper
returned
to normal! It must have something to do with what you suggested because
when
I typed in "markup" under help ... tracking changes came up. I still don't
understand it but.... it's back to normal

Thanks!

"Terry McM" wrote:



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Are you tracking changes?

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"Terry McM" Terry wrote in message
...
My margins are fine for all of the material that I input but the
size of
the
paper on my screen is not 8.5 by 11. It looks like it is 9 inches or
so
wide
and all of the "extra" paper is on the right. I have compared it
side by
side
with other documents but I cannot find the button or setting that is
different. I do not have any objects that I know of outside of the
margins.
Could there be a hidden cell? My document is about 100 pages.
Thanks

No I am not. When I load the document for the first couple of seconds
it
is the right size and then it "grows" as if I had some kind of zoom
button on
the paper that makes it go outside the margins.