[Klaus Linke]

Hi Roxanne,

If you have two paragraphs, the first with some "space after" and the second
with some "space before", Word will by default use the larger of the two
values.

I think the behaviour changed with Word 2000. Previously, Word had simply
added the values.
If you don't like the "new" behaviour, you can change a compatibility
setting referring to HTML paragraph spacing (Tools Options Compatibility
up to Word 2003), in the documents, or in the template (for new documents).
Probably your old documents still have compatibility settings for Word 97 or
older...

Regards,
Klaus


"Roxanne Laney" wrote:
Recently, my Word documents are suppressing the 6 points before paragraph
spacing. The settings are correct in the FORMAT/PARAGRAPH dialog box, but
when the box is closed, the before-paragraph spacing is not showing. That
is,
if I select 6 points before, I see nothing. If I select 12 points spacing,
I
see 6 points. This happens on styled text, new documents with the
normal.dot
template and no styles. Older documents look fine. Can anyone tell me what
to
fix? All my documents are coming out squished vertically on the page.

--
roxanne