diff --git a/scribus/ui/propertywidget_pareffectbase.ui b/scribus/ui/propertywidget_pareffectbase.ui
index 1a2670a01..566766135 100644
--- a/scribus/ui/propertywidget_pareffectbase.ui
+++ b/scribus/ui/propertywidget_pareffectbase.ui
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@
               <string>Paragraph Effects characters offset</string>
              </property>
              <property name="minimum">
-              <double>-3000.000000000000000</double>
+              <double>0.000000000000000</double>
              </property>
              <property name="maximum">
               <double>3000.000000000000000</double>
@@ -526,6 +526,12 @@
    <header>ui/widgets/form_widget.h</header>
    <container>1</container>
   </customwidget>
   <customwidget>
    <class>ScrSpinBox</class>
    <extends>QDoubleSpinBox</extends>
@@ -541,12 +547,6 @@
    <extends>QComboBox</extends>
    <header>ui/numformatcombo.h</header>
   </customwidget>
  </customwidgets>
  <tabstops>
   <tabstop>peCombo</tabstop>
diff --git a/scribus/ui/smpstylewidget.ui b/scribus/ui/smpstylewidget.ui
index 8a6d90e31..150dd11aa 100644
--- a/scribus/ui/smpstylewidget.ui
+++ b/scribus/ui/smpstylewidget.ui
@@ -1535,7 +1535,7 @@ A value of 0 means unlimited hyphenations.</string>
                   <string>Paragraph Effects characters offset</string>
                  </property>
                  <property name="minimum">
-                  <double>-3000.000000000000000</double>
+                  <double>0.000000000000000</double>
                  </property>
                  <property name="maximum">
                   <double>3000.000000000000000</double>