View Single Post
  #8   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Terry Farrell Terry Farrell is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 2,904
Default paragraph line spacing

Ah. So although 1, 1.5, 2, etc is shown as the progression, you can actually
specify 'At Least 1.35 li'. It converts 1.35 Li to 16.25 pts and the Line
Spacing button still doesn't tick the setting.

Terry

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
FWIW, you can use Multiple line spacing, which does adjust to the point
size of the text. This allows you to set something between 1 and 1.5; it
also (though this is not obvious) allows you to set less than one line: I
often back off to .99 or .98 lines to fit copy.

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

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Doug

The problem I see with the Line and Paragraph Spacing button is that it
only shows the tick mark against the line spacing setting if you use Line
units. If you set (like all good Word users should use) to use the At
Least XX pts, the Line Spacing tick doesn't work (because it only works
in Line Units and not in Points).

I would never use a fixed line height because sometimes ascenders or
descenders can be chopped and I find 1 line too little and 1.5 lines too
much, so it is a pretty useless feature. Perhaps a suggestion for the
next release would be to make the units dynamic with the settings used!

I only recently discovered the Spacing Before and Spacing After buttons,
but I now have the Spacing After permanently on my QAT.

Terry

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
In both Word 2007 and Word 2010 there is a Line and Paragraph Spacing
button in the Paragraph section of the Ribbon. If you click on it, it
will show the spacing of the selected paragraph by a tick against the
1.0, 1.15, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 or 3.0. It also has a button that will take
you to the Format Paragraph dialog and buttons to Add (or Remove if it
is there already) Space Before or After the paragraph.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Well there is in Word 2010 but I am unable to check if this is
available in Word 2007.

Use the Customise Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) option and choose All
Commands. Scroll down the list of command and you will find

Spacing Before
Spacing After

Add them to your QAT. Now as you click in a paragraph, the little boxes
on the QAT will display the current setting. I hope that is the same
for Word 2007.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP