Word displays Space Before even when it will be suppressed. If you have text
boundaries displayed, you'll see the Space Before extending above the top
margin of the document. Is this what you're talking about?

Rereading your initial post, however, it sounds as if you may have display
issues. Have you recently updated the display driver? If not, perhaps that
would help.

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Words into Type
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"Tony Wainwright" wrote in message
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Thanks Suzanne - I have already read this. Unfortunately it doesn't
explain
why certain paragraphs appear to have line spacing (top) on screen, where
the document is designed to be viewed, but not when printing. Any ideas on
why this should be so

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The black bullet may in this case signify "Keep with next," but it
actually
can indicate KWN, "Keep lines together," "Page break before," or
"Suppress
line numbering." For more, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm. For other
troubleshooting tools, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Tony Wainwright" wrote in message
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I have now found the meaning of the little 'black' bullet - 'Keep with
next'
paragraph formatting. Turning it off though does not solve the original
problem.

"Tony Wainwright" wrote in message
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Hi
Firstly, apologies if this in the wrong group. I am using Word 2003
and
consider myself to be quite competent as I have been using Office
since
version 4.2.

I am creating a document that is primarily to be viewed via a PC, and
although it prints correctly the formatting can do strange things on
screen e.g.

1) I have as a default 6pt before each paragraph, but in certain
areas
it
appears as though this is applied to each line within the paragraph.
I
have revealed the formatting and compared it to paragraphs which do
not
display this behaviour and they are identical...except for a small
square
'bullet' before affected portions when revealing the paragraph. I can
find
no mention of this symbol in the help file (although I may be looking
in
the wrong place)

2) Although the affected pages print correctly, the last few lines
can
disappear! If I move the cursor down (via the arrow keys) it
reappears?

I do have inline screen dumps using wrap tightly, but I don't think
this
is the cause as non-affected paragraphs also wrap around the pictures

Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.

TJ