I totally agree with Klaus! Both workarounds are ugly and unprofessional.
Also, if you modify the document, you're left with messy formatting detritus
to clean up.

"Klaus Linke" wrote:

"João Correia" wrote:
Hi, I'd like to know how can I create a before and after
space in a table. [...]


"Jezebel" wrote:
Adjust the After and Before properties of the preceding and
following paragraphs.

.... but I'd still write http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
about it:
The space before/after a table should properly be a table property.

Applying manual paragraph formatting (or inserting empty paragraphs) all
over the place is only an ugly work-around.

Regards,
Klaus