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Default table style question, space before and after

In my particular case (I'm using tables to handle equation captions)
my tables have no borders. When I set this option to any number of
points, no space is added anywhere that I can see, inside or outside
the table.

Do you get something different when you do this?

Brian





On Sep 17, 11:10 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
It should add the space after the paragraph, but it will likely still be
inside the table. This won't matter unless you're using borders, but if you
are, it won't be helpful.

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Do y'all agree that if you go Modify / Table Style/Last Row/Paragraph/
Space After that this should add the elusive space after a table?


I'm still hoping that if this is done in just the right way, it will
work.


Brian Murphy
Austin, Texas


On Sep 17, 3:46 pm, "Terry Farrell" wrote:
Suzanne


I rarely leave empty paras the exceptions being similar - under ToCs and
under Tables. But I am looking into the latter at the moment.


Terry
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in


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When you add space below to that blank paragraph, you're adding it to

the
paragraph. If you have nonprinting characters displayed, this is very
evident. The paragraph alone, if left empty, creates space below the
table,
too, but I don't leave empty paragraphs anywhere except when

absolutely
necessary (as between a TOC and a section break or between TOCs).


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"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Suzanne


This is something I have always had a hard time getting my head

around. I
find that if there is a blank para following the table, I can select

the
table and use format, para to add space below to adjust the space

between
the table and following para. If there isn't a blank para, then

selecting
the table and adding Space Below adds the space to the table cells.

I'll
have to play with this some more but these results seem to contradict

the
formatting being held in the final cell marker. (Maybe this is only

true
if
there is nothing following the table other than the para mark?)


Terry


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
.. .
Are you sure about this, Terry? I thought the table attributes were
stored
in the end-of-table marker. The requirement for a normal text

paragraph
after a table at the end of a document is to store the *document*

(that
is,
section) formatting. I'm not sure what the required empty paragraph
after
a
table in the Header/Footer is supposed to for, though.


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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
If you don't put a 'blank paragraph' between the table and the
following
text paragraph, then the table attributes are stored with the
paragraph
mark
of the following text para. I never understood why this should be

so,
but
unfortunately, its the way it works. To get a blank paragraph

below
the
table, put the cursor at the beginning of the following text

paragraph
and
press enter. The new para mark then stores the table attributes.


Terry


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I can't seem to find a paragraph mark after a table (Word 2003).


Is there some trick to finding it?


At the end of the last row of the table I see only a little

square.

The very next line after the last row of the table is the first

line
of the next paragraph.


Brian


On Sep 17, 4:59 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote:
You can add some Spacing After (Format | Paragraph, Indents and
Spacing
tab)
to the paragraph mark following the table.


Note that if the paragraph below has Spacing Before, Word will

only
display
the larger amount of the two settings for Spacing Before and

After.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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No good. Double spacing on the last row doesn't create any

space
after if the table only has one row. Darn.


Brian


On Sep 15, 8:26 pm, wrote:
Hmmmm. I'm using Word 2003, and I don't see any pilcrow at

the
end
of
a table. There's a pilcrow at the end of the paragraph that

is
right
after the table, and it's formatted as Body Text.


It seems like something is not right with Word. In the

table
style
assigned to the table, for the Header Row I set 12 points

space
before, and this does just what I want and what I expect.

When
I
set
12 points space after for the Last Row, this does nothing!

Is
there
some trick to getting that to work?


I just discovered that if I set double line spacing for the

Last
Row,
that seems to produce 12 points of space after just the last
row.
That will be good enough for this particular situation since

my
tables
only have one line of text in the last row. It wouldn't

work
otherwise.


Brian


On Sep 15, 10:38 am, "Terry Farrell"
wrote:


Immediately following a table is a paragraph formatting

mark
(the
reversed P
symbol or pilcrow): this holds the formatting parameters

of
the
table.
If
you select it (it should select the whole table) and you

can
use
Format,
Paragraph and set the Space Before and Space After

settings.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP


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I want space both before and after a table, but not

between
rows
of
a
table.


Can someone please point me in the right direction?


Thanks,


Brian Murphy