I'm not sure what the "blue bar representing the right margin" is. I would
be tempted to think this was a white space issue (see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm) but this wouldn't cause a
change in the display in Print Preview or a resulting PDF.
The fact that this happens when you update the TOC (a change) does very much
suggest to me the Track Changes issue, though. If you display the Reviewing
toolbar and select the Final view, does it differ from Final Showing Markup?
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"Linguist17" wrote in message
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Does the document contain comments or tracked changes? If so, Word is
allowing margin space for the "balloons."
No, no comments or tracked changes. It's not that the text is shrunk and
restricted to the upper left part of the page, as it is when you're
tracking
changes.
In print layout view, the program is actually showing the page as
extending
1 to 1.5 inches *to the right of the blue bar representing the right
margin*.
The pages are actually showing up in the wrong shape, as if the paper
were
9.5 x 11 or 10 x 11 inches.
As I said, it wouldn't matter too much if I were just printing the
document,
but I need to make it into a .pdf, and the .pdf is showing the same weird,
squarish pages.
When I first load the document, the page dimensions are correct (this is a
rather large document with several subdocuments--my dissertation, in
fact).
It's when I update the fields in my table of contents that the program
bumps
the right edge of all the pages out another 1.5 in. or so.
Thanks for your help!