[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word suppresses Space Before at the top of a page except after a manual page
break. You can opt to suppress it after a manual break as well.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Little Miss Sunshine" Little Miss
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The Heading 1 style has paragraph spacing set to 12 pt before. I do not
want
to set the "Page break before" option in the style and instead of have
several manual page breaks and section breaks in the document.

After some breaks, the Heading 1 style properly displays/prints with the
12
pt before. However after other breaks, the style does NOT properly
display/print with the 12 pt before, it's 0 before (even though if you
look
at the paragraph formatting for the text, it shows 12 pt). It seems that
Word
figures since the text is at the top of the page, the before spacing isn't
needed. But since it's not doing this consistently, the end result is that
the position of Heading 1 is inconsistent across the pages.

Please advise how can I make this be consistent when the style immediately
follows a break - I need for it to either always be 0 pt before or always
be
what is set in the style (here, it's 12 pt).