RE: MS Word: Spacing before, after, or both?

Subject: RE: MS Word: Spacing before, after, or both?
From: "Claire Conant" <Claire -dot- Conant -at- Digeo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:01:09 -0700


I use Word 2003. For body text I set the "before paragraph" spacing at 6
pt, and "after" at 4 pt, with a line spacing of 12 pt. (font is 11pt).
This allows for a little more white space between lines.

I also just noticed that Word 2003 has a feature to not add spacing
between paragraphs of the same style. Providing you are applying styles
to your document text and not just overriding them with shortcut
buttons...<grin>

Hope that helps.

Claire Conant
Technical Editor
Digeo, Inc.
www.digeo.com



Nuckols, Kenneth M wrote:


Most layout / dp / wp software that includes styles has a similar
feature. In my documentation with InDesign I do something like what you
advocate for body text. My "body text" (for the sake of argument) style
has 0 space before and X space after (depending on the point size,
document page size and format, and other variables). On the other hand,
each Heading (again for argument's sake) "Heading 1," "Heading 2,"
"Heading 457.318" style has Y space before and Z space after. The reason
for this is that I want a wee bit more space between the last paragraph
of one section and the heading of the next section than I want between
the heading and the first paragraph of text that goes with it.

Now it's been a while since I've done heavy style use in Word, but the
spacing you're talking about is between paragraph breaks, correct? I've
answered presuming you're not talking about leading between the lines of
the same paragraph. I know you can set this up as well, and I don't
remember whether that's a character style setting you do in Word or a
paragraph style setting.

A question I'd like to put out to the group related to Brian's is this:
does anyone know of any funky ways to say "give me X room before and Y
room after this paragraph style EXCEPT when the NEXT/PREVIOUS style used
is STYLE_A"? I'd be curious if Word, InDesign, FrameMaker, or any of
the other popular page layout programs folks on this list use do that.
I've never had cause to do that in InDesign so I haven't looked for the
capability. It might be something already built in.


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