If all your headings have the same amount of Space Before and all are
formatted as "Page break before," then you shouldn't see any discrepancy.
But if some are breaking to the next page *without* "Page break before"
formatting, then the space above them is, by default, being suppressed by
Word. If you want Word to suppress the space even after a page break, go to
Office Button | Word Options | Advanced. At the very bottom are the
Compatibility Options (expand the Layout Options); the one you want to check
is "Suppress Space Before after a hard page or column break."
Note that the "Suppress extra line spacing" options are irrelevant here, as
they address only line spacing (space between lines within the paragraph),
not Space Before.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Subligaria" wrote in message
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Hi,
Thanks.
None of these apply. Not sure about "Suppress extra space at the top of a
page." Can't find this in the Page Setup dialog.
Am I missing something?
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
Turn on your Non-Printing Characters (Ctrl-Shift-8) and see whether
there are any empty paragraphs that could be messing up your
pagination.
See whether "Keep with next" is turned on in any of your paragraphs or
styles. Also "Keep with next." Or maybe in Page Setup, you have
Vertical Spacing set to Justified. Make it "Top."
Also there's an option for "Suppress extra space at the top of a
page." Maybe that could override individual settings.
On Sep 10, 3:35 pm, Subligaria
wrote:
I'm using Word 2007.
Can anyone suggest why applying the "Page break before" feature in the
Paragraph dialog to successive headings should result in some pages
with a
bigger gap before the head than others?
In every case, each head has a "spacing before" value of 12 pt (both in
the
underlying style and in terms of manual formatting). In some headings,
however, there is a perceptibly bigger gap . . .