I thought the suggestion by Jo_Ann to put a short room divider in the soffit was so that I no longer had to move my room divider around the pantry (see first photo when the room divider splits the pantry). The only way to get the ceiling correct was to stop it before the pantry and then fill in the missing 11' area with boxes/soffits. Additionally, before I moved my room divider to avoid the pantry, it also did something strange above my door (again in first photo).