[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I remember it because I didn't encounter it till Word 2002 (having skipped
2000), and by the time I encountered the problem (and couldn't figure out
why I wasn't getting the additive spacing I expected), other Word MVPs were
fully up to speed and could point me to the right option to change. That's
the *only* "custom" setting I have in Word 2003 Compatibility Options, I
think.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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I remember that particular compatibility option because it was very
difficult to figure out what it actually means. :-)

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Stefan Blom
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I remembered it was 2000 because that was the version where all sorts of
webby things were introduced (to make Word more HTML-compatible). You can
also check by setting the Compatibility to various versions and seeing
what
is checked by default and what is not.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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Thanks Stefan. I knew it was either 97 or 2000 but was too busy to try
and find it at the time. :-)

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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I'd just like to clarify that the compatibility option was introduced
in
Word 2000; in Word 97 Spacing After for a paragraph was always added to
the Spacing Before in the following paragraph.


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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Depending on the version of Word you are using (I think 97 and higher)
by
default Word will only use the larger of the space before/after. So if
say, Body Text has 6 pts after and the following paragraph is a
Heading
style with 12 pts before by default there won't be 18 pts of space in
between, it will be 12 pts which is the larger of the two.

The option that controls this behavior is a Compatibility option
called
"Don't use HTML paragraph Auto spacing" so if you want the combined
space
between then this option needs to be selected.

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