[Solved] Text Bleeding Over Past the Border of the Central Column

I found this post in a Google search:

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-post-text-bleeding-behind-right-hand-column?replies=14

but it was closed and I wanted to post the fix (at least what worked for me).

I had a similar problem – in IE7/8 the text bled over under the right side menu – and further down the page it bled over into the empty space and looked aweful, but in FF3 everything was fine. It turns out a new post was made with a long URL posted (rather than hyperlinking). I took the URL out and hyperlinked a few words instead – that fixed it. Hope this helps someone else. ??