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I get Word 2003 documents from others in my company where one line of text
(say, a heading) is suppose to have 6 pt line spacing above and 12 pt line spacing below. If there is a blank line above it, this shows 6 pts above and 12 pts below, but if I take the blank line out, where the paragraph above also has 12 pt line spacing below, the one line of text no longer shows the 6 pts above--in other words the spacing showing is 12 pts between the one line of text and the paragraph above it, where it should be 18 pts total. Anyone have any idea how I can adjust these documents where this happens? Thank you! |
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Word uses the larger value, not the sum.
There's an option setting to change that (Tools Options Compatibility... something about HTML spacing I think). But I would just adapt my style definitions accordingly. The default behaviour gives you a lot more possibilities to fine-tune the spacing between different style paragraphs. Regards, Klaus "Journey51" wrote: I get Word 2003 documents from others in my company where one line of text (say, a heading) is suppose to have 6 pt line spacing above and 12 pt line spacing below. If there is a blank line above it, this shows 6 pts above and 12 pts below, but if I take the blank line out, where the paragraph above also has 12 pt line spacing below, the one line of text no longer shows the 6 pts above--in other words the spacing showing is 12 pts between the one line of text and the paragraph above it, where it should be 18 pts total. Anyone have any idea how I can adjust these documents where this happens? Thank you! |
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The option is "Don't use HTML paragraph auto spacing." Check the box to get
the full sum value rather than the greater of the amounts. -- 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. "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... Word uses the larger value, not the sum. There's an option setting to change that (Tools Options Compatibility... something about HTML spacing I think). But I would just adapt my style definitions accordingly. The default behaviour gives you a lot more possibilities to fine-tune the spacing between different style paragraphs. Regards, Klaus "Journey51" wrote: I get Word 2003 documents from others in my company where one line of text (say, a heading) is suppose to have 6 pt line spacing above and 12 pt line spacing below. If there is a blank line above it, this shows 6 pts above and 12 pts below, but if I take the blank line out, where the paragraph above also has 12 pt line spacing below, the one line of text no longer shows the 6 pts above--in other words the spacing showing is 12 pts between the one line of text and the paragraph above it, where it should be 18 pts total. Anyone have any idea how I can adjust these documents where this happens? Thank you! |
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That was indeed the problem. Thank you so much, Klaus!
"Klaus Linke" wrote: Word uses the larger value, not the sum. There's an option setting to change that (Tools Options Compatibility... something about HTML spacing I think). But I would just adapt my style definitions accordingly. The default behaviour gives you a lot more possibilities to fine-tune the spacing between different style paragraphs. Regards, Klaus "Journey51" wrote: I get Word 2003 documents from others in my company where one line of text (say, a heading) is suppose to have 6 pt line spacing above and 12 pt line spacing below. If there is a blank line above it, this shows 6 pts above and 12 pts below, but if I take the blank line out, where the paragraph above also has 12 pt line spacing below, the one line of text no longer shows the 6 pts above--in other words the spacing showing is 12 pts between the one line of text and the paragraph above it, where it should be 18 pts total. Anyone have any idea how I can adjust these documents where this happens? Thank you! |
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Thank you so much, Suzanne! That was definitely the ticket. It was driving
me crazy. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The option is "Don't use HTML paragraph auto spacing." Check the box to get the full sum value rather than the greater of the amounts. -- 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. "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... Word uses the larger value, not the sum. There's an option setting to change that (Tools Options Compatibility... something about HTML spacing I think). But I would just adapt my style definitions accordingly. The default behaviour gives you a lot more possibilities to fine-tune the spacing between different style paragraphs. Regards, Klaus "Journey51" wrote: I get Word 2003 documents from others in my company where one line of text (say, a heading) is suppose to have 6 pt line spacing above and 12 pt line spacing below. If there is a blank line above it, this shows 6 pts above and 12 pts below, but if I take the blank line out, where the paragraph above also has 12 pt line spacing below, the one line of text no longer shows the 6 pts above--in other words the spacing showing is 12 pts between the one line of text and the paragraph above it, where it should be 18 pts total. Anyone have any idea how I can adjust these documents where this happens? Thank you! |
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I recall how confusing that was to me when I first encountered it and how
grateful I was to whoever it was who pointed out the option. It was introduced in Word 2000, I think, but I skipped from 97 to 2002, so by the time I encountered it, plenty of people had learned how to deal with it! -- 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. "Journey51" wrote in message ... Thank you so much, Suzanne! That was definitely the ticket. It was driving me crazy. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The option is "Don't use HTML paragraph auto spacing." Check the box to get the full sum value rather than the greater of the amounts. -- 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. "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... Word uses the larger value, not the sum. There's an option setting to change that (Tools Options Compatibility... something about HTML spacing I think). But I would just adapt my style definitions accordingly. The default behaviour gives you a lot more possibilities to fine-tune the spacing between different style paragraphs. Regards, Klaus "Journey51" wrote: I get Word 2003 documents from others in my company where one line of text (say, a heading) is suppose to have 6 pt line spacing above and 12 pt line spacing below. If there is a blank line above it, this shows 6 pts above and 12 pts below, but if I take the blank line out, where the paragraph above also has 12 pt line spacing below, the one line of text no longer shows the 6 pts above--in other words the spacing showing is 12 pts between the one line of text and the paragraph above it, where it should be 18 pts total. Anyone have any idea how I can adjust these documents where this happens? Thank you! |
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