diff --git a/nw/gui/build.py b/nw/gui/build.py
index c13a3911..0370e23c 100644
--- a/nw/gui/build.py
+++ b/nw/gui/build.py
@@ -1040,9 +1040,7 @@ class GuiBuildNovelDocView(QTextBrowser):
         # This forces a repaint of the text, It's a hack to fix an occational
         # issue where the find/replace above interfers with the rendering and
         # leaves parts of the document blank.
-        textWidth = self.qDocument.textWidth()
-        self.qDocument.setTextWidth(textWidth - 5)
-        self.qDocument.setTextWidth(textWidth)
+        self.qDocument.setTextWidth(self.qDocument.textWidth())
 
         return
 
diff --git a/nw/gui/docviewer.py b/nw/gui/docviewer.py
index 0f7e81cd..63a41e9b 100644
--- a/nw/gui/docviewer.py
+++ b/nw/gui/docviewer.py
@@ -183,9 +183,7 @@ class GuiDocViewer(QTextBrowser):
         # This forces a repaint of the text, It's a hack to fix an occational
         # issue where the find/replace above interfers with the rendering and
         # leaves parts of the document blank.
-        textWidth = self.qDocument.textWidth()
-        self.qDocument.setTextWidth(textWidth - 5)
-        self.qDocument.setTextWidth(textWidth)
+        self.qDocument.setTextWidth(self.qDocument.textWidth())
 
         return True