[Peter T. Daniels]

Thanks -- some of those are informative, and many are absolutely
useless. For instance: two different commands that do exactly the same
thing? What if one is checked and the other isn't?

*Suppress extra line spacing at top of page*:
This option prevents Word from adding extra line spacing at the top of
a page. If the line spacing for the line at the top of a page is set
for more than single spacing, Word ignores the extra spacing, so that
the top margin does not increase.

*Suppress extra line spacing at the top of page like Word 5.x for the
Mac*:
This option prevents Word from adding extra line spacing at the top of
a page. If the line spacing for the line at the top of a page is set
for more than single line spacing, Word ignores the extra spacing, so
that the top margin does not increase.


On Feb 17, 10:30*am, "Stefan Blom"
wrote:
There is a KB article that explains the compatibility options. It's for Word
2000-2003, but it still works in Word 2010... Seehttp://support.microsoft..com/kb/288792/en-us/(Description of the
Compatibility options that are available in the Options dialog box in Word
2003, Word 2002, and Word 2000).

I certainly agree that Word Help should do a better job.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ...

There's yet another pet peeve. Why aren't there pop-up explanations of
the dozens of "Advanced" settings in Word Options? How is "Don't use
HTML paragraph spacing" supposed to mean "Add together Before/After
spacing"?

On Feb 16, 1:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:
If the issue is that only the larger of the Before/After settings is
being
honored (instead of the two being added together), then you need to
enable
the Compatibility Option "Don't use HTML paragraph auto spacing." Find
the
Compatibility Options at the very bottom of the advanced tab of File |
Options.