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Best way to insert shadeed space before a paragraph using styles
One of my heading styles has the paragraph formatted with shading. The top
of the capital letters come quite close to the edge of the shading, so I'd like the shading to be a little "taller". I thought that I could just insert space before, but when I do that the space is white, not colored as I'd like it to be. Is there a solution to this other than creating a new style with the same color background and inserting a dummy paragraph before all my headings? That will work, but I'm hoping there's another way. Thanks so much. |
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Best way to insert shadeed space before a paragraph using styles
In the Borders and Shading dialog, click on Options and increase the
"Distance from text" setting for Top. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "savageanne" wrote in message ... One of my heading styles has the paragraph formatted with shading. The top of the capital letters come quite close to the edge of the shading, so I'd like the shading to be a little "taller". I thought that I could just insert space before, but when I do that the space is white, not colored as I'd like it to be. Is there a solution to this other than creating a new style with the same color background and inserting a dummy paragraph before all my headings? That will work, but I'm hoping there's another way. Thanks so much. |
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Hi - Thanks. I had tried that before and it didn't work, but at your
recommendation I played around a bit more a discovered that it works but ONLY IF you have a border. If you only have the shading, with no border, it doesn't do anything. So, I added a border the same color as the shading and viola! Thanks so much. - A "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the Borders and Shading dialog, click on Options and increase the "Distance from text" setting for Top. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "savageanne" wrote in message ... One of my heading styles has the paragraph formatted with shading. The top of the capital letters come quite close to the edge of the shading, so I'd like the shading to be a little "taller". I thought that I could just insert space before, but when I do that the space is white, not colored as I'd like it to be. Is there a solution to this other than creating a new style with the same color background and inserting a dummy paragraph before all my headings? That will work, but I'm hoping there's another way. Thanks so much. |
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Best way to insert shadeed space before a paragraph using styl
As far as I have experienced (Word 2003), setting a margin in the Options
dialog box has no effect unless you also apply a corresponding border (in this case, a top border). The border can be set to white color or the same color as the shading. -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the Borders and Shading dialog, click on Options and increase the "Distance from text" setting for Top. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "savageanne" wrote in message ... One of my heading styles has the paragraph formatted with shading. The top of the capital letters come quite close to the edge of the shading, so I'd like the shading to be a little "taller". I thought that I could just insert space before, but when I do that the space is white, not colored as I'd like it to be. Is there a solution to this other than creating a new style with the same color background and inserting a dummy paragraph before all my headings? That will work, but I'm hoping there's another way. Thanks so much. |
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Oops, yep, forgot about that gotcha! Sometimes I add a white border, but
same color works, too. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "savageanne" wrote in message ... Hi - Thanks. I had tried that before and it didn't work, but at your recommendation I played around a bit more a discovered that it works but ONLY IF you have a border. If you only have the shading, with no border, it doesn't do anything. So, I added a border the same color as the shading and viola! Thanks so much. - A "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In the Borders and Shading dialog, click on Options and increase the "Distance from text" setting for Top. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "savageanne" wrote in message ... One of my heading styles has the paragraph formatted with shading. The top of the capital letters come quite close to the edge of the shading, so I'd like the shading to be a little "taller". I thought that I could just insert space before, but when I do that the space is white, not colored as I'd like it to be. Is there a solution to this other than creating a new style with the same color background and inserting a dummy paragraph before all my headings? That will work, but I'm hoping there's another way. Thanks so much. |
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