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table style question, space before and after
Ah, yes, that does make sense.
-- 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. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Suzanne I've pulled up some old documents that I remember working the way I thought and the reason is that the Table are not In Line but are floating in a frame where they behave as though they are graphics. That explains why I could get the space below to work: not at all what I thought! Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... When you add space below to that blank paragraph, you're adding it to the paragraph. If you have nonprinting characters displayed, this is very evident. The paragraph alone, if left empty, creates space below the table, too, but I don't leave empty paragraphs anywhere except when absolutely necessary (as between a TOC and a section break or between TOCs). -- 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. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Suzanne This is something I have always had a hard time getting my head around. I find that if there is a blank para following the table, I can select the table and use format, para to add space below to adjust the space between the table and following para. If there isn't a blank para, then selecting the table and adding Space Below adds the space to the table cells. I'll have to play with this some more but these results seem to contradict the formatting being held in the final cell marker. (Maybe this is only true if there is nothing following the table other than the para mark?) Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Are you sure about this, Terry? I thought the table attributes were stored in the end-of-table marker. The requirement for a normal text paragraph after a table at the end of a document is to store the *document* (that is, section) formatting. I'm not sure what the required empty paragraph after a table in the Header/Footer is supposed to for, though. -- 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. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... If you don't put a 'blank paragraph' between the table and the following text paragraph, then the table attributes are stored with the paragraph mark of the following text para. I never understood why this should be so, but unfortunately, its the way it works. To get a blank paragraph below the table, put the cursor at the beginning of the following text paragraph and press enter. The new para mark then stores the table attributes. Terry wrote in message ups.com... I can't seem to find a paragraph mark after a table (Word 2003). Is there some trick to finding it? At the end of the last row of the table I see only a little square. The very next line after the last row of the table is the first line of the next paragraph. Brian On Sep 17, 4:59 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: You can add some Spacing After (Format | Paragraph, Indents and Spacing tab) to the paragraph mark following the table. Note that if the paragraph below has Spacing Before, Word will only display the larger amount of the two settings for Spacing Before and After. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... No good. Double spacing on the last row doesn't create any space after if the table only has one row. Darn. Brian On Sep 15, 8:26 pm, wrote: Hmmmm. I'm using Word 2003, and I don't see any pilcrow at the end of a table. There's a pilcrow at the end of the paragraph that is right after the table, and it's formatted as Body Text. It seems like something is not right with Word. In the table style assigned to the table, for the Header Row I set 12 points space before, and this does just what I want and what I expect. When I set 12 points space after for the Last Row, this does nothing! Is there some trick to getting that to work? I just discovered that if I set double line spacing for the Last Row, that seems to produce 12 points of space after just the last row. That will be good enough for this particular situation since my tables only have one line of text in the last row. It wouldn't work otherwise. Brian On Sep 15, 10:38 am, "Terry Farrell" wrote: Immediately following a table is a paragraph formatting mark (the reversed P symbol or pilcrow): this holds the formatting parameters of the table. If you select it (it should select the whole table) and you can use Format, Paragraph and set the Space Before and Space After settings. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP wrote in message ups.com... I want space both before and after a table, but not between rows of a table. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Brian Murphy |
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