[Journey51]

That was indeed the problem. Thank you so much, Klaus!

"Klaus Linke" wrote:

Word uses the larger value, not the sum.

There's an option setting to change that (Tools Options Compatibility...
something about HTML spacing I think).

But I would just adapt my style definitions accordingly.
The default behaviour gives you a lot more possibilities to fine-tune the
spacing between different style paragraphs.

Regards,
Klaus


"Journey51" wrote:
I get Word 2003 documents from others in my company where one line of text
(say, a heading) is suppose to have 6 pt line spacing above and 12 pt
line
spacing below. If there is a blank line above it, this shows 6 pts above
and
12 pts below, but if I take the blank line out, where the paragraph above
also has 12 pt line spacing below, the one line of text no longer shows
the 6
pts above--in other words the spacing showing is 12 pts between the one
line
of text and the paragraph above it, where it should be 18 pts total.
Anyone
have any idea how I can adjust these documents where this happens?

Thank you!