How to change the placement of the left border of tables in Word

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Hallo everybody

I have the following problem: in MS Word, the left-side (and also the right-side) border is not aligned with the rest of the text on a page. It's actually the text in the first column of a table that is aligned with the text outside the table. And the table border is a little bit to the left. I find this layout quite a bit annoying, as I don't want to have any elements on a page outside the range that is used by normal text.

Now my question: is it possible to have tables in Word such that the border lines align with the text outside the table?

Thanks, Markus

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