[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

It is certainly awful. I'm not sure it makes sense, either. :-)

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Okay, I see what you're saying now. This is awful! (Makes sense, I
suppose, but it's still awful.)

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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I'm referring to exact line spacing too. :-)

Note that if you select the "Don't center 'exact line height' lines"
option and then format a word larger than the others, the whole line will
move down:

text here. text here. text here. text here.
text here. text here. text here. text here.

text here. LARGE TEXT HERE. text here. text here.
text here. text here. text here. text here.
text here. text here. text here. text here.

In other words, the distance between (in this example) line 2 and 3 will
be larger, but the distance between lines 1 and 4 will be three times the
selected fixed line spacing.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The topic at issue here is exact line spacing, which does result in text
with the same distance between baselines.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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But note that the option is useless if your lines contain text of
different sizes, in which case the distance between baselines will no
longer be fixed.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You might experiment with the Compatibility Option "Don't center
'exact
line
height' lines." The wording of this is actually nonsense, since
they're
not
"centered" to begin with, but enabling this option does make a
difference
in
their position. You can also experiment with the "Suppress extra line
spacing" options.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

wrote in message
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Why does Word shift the baseline downward when you specify EXACT line
spacing?

I have some fonts that have ridiculously large internal leading.
Setting DOUBLE for a 14pt font gives only 14 lines on a page with 1"
margins (compared to 21 with Times New Roman). If I do a typographic
double spacing,and set EXACT to 28 pts., Word shifts the baseline
down
about 9 pt. This screws up spacing with other styles.

Is there an easy way to compensate?