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Bingo! Silly of me not to have followed that through - I had rendered all that code useless!

Looks great and thank you so much for your time and for being so quick to respond.

Erica

Thank you Stefan. I maybe being a bit slow here - I have \EverySelectfont in my preamble but needed to close the argument brackets in order to get the document to typeset; the argument is empty - should I be doing something more with it? I haven't really fully understood its purpose I don't think. :?

Thanks for that; have added in the coding and it is now hyphenating beautifully; still ragged though and still wandering over the outer edge of the right hand margin - will look at it again tomorrow and see if there is something I have missed; if not, I may just have to let it ramble.

Unfortunately, stylistically, the font is non-negotiable (and I realised it might be the font that was causing the problem). The slightly narrower version of courier provided by the \txfonts package looks pretty good and reads quite well. If needs be, I will live with my roaming right margin, but I ...

Thank you for that Stefan; now that you point it out, it makes perfect sense and ragged I can certainly live with now that I look at it again.

However, it still leaves me with a right hand margin roaming far too wide for my liking; it has left the headers and footers sitting a good half inch behind ...

Trying to format a document, article class, oneside, using \usepackage{txfonts} and \ttfamily to create a narrow courier font.

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper}

are also in my preamble.

I would like my document margins to be in the region of 1in on the right hand side.

The document ...