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How can I adjust these weirdly large margins on my text box? Changing the margins in format shape have no effect.

Anonymous
2017-03-31T18:26:42+00:00

These text box are too large.  Not only a waste of space but weird looking.  I adjusted all margins to 0 under text and shape using Format Shape - but it had no effect.  

SO PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME TO CHANGE THE MARGIN SETTINGS IN FORMAT SHAPE UNDER SHAPE OR TEXT BECAUSE I HAVE CHANGED THEM BOTH TO ALL ZEROS AND IT HAS NO EFFECT.

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2017-03-31T23:40:33+00:00

Have you looked at the formatting of the paragraph to see if it has indents before and after the text?

If you send me a copy of the document, referencing this thread in the covering email message, I will investigate the issue.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-04-04T19:08:35+00:00

    Changing the paragraph margin settings with the text box selected solved the issue.  Thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-04T02:04:20+00:00

    Hi Donnie,

    Do you need further help?

    Regards,

    Neha

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-03-31T21:45:16+00:00

    Hi Donnie,

    To troubleshoot this issue, please confirm the following information:

    1. Please create a text box in a new Word document and see if you can change the margin. This is to check if the issue is occurring in a specific document or all the documents.
    2. Provide the screenshot of the exact version of Office installed on your PC.

    Additionally, please provide a sample doc, so we can check on our end. I’ll send you a private message to collect the document. Please click hereto access your PM.

    Thanks,

    Neha

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