I want to set up a paragraph style to show the text on a pale grey
background. I have tried to do this by setting BorderShading and choosing a
colour, and then using BorderBordersOptionsBorders&ShadingOptions, setting
"from text" top and bottom both to 6pt, to get a suitable amount around the
edge. I have two problems with this:

Firstly, unless I also set up a Border, then it seems to ignore the "from
text" setting, and the shading is tight around the text. I can get round
this by setting up a border using the same colour as the shading, but the
colours offered seem to be slightly different and the eagle-eyed can see that
its a border.

Second, and more important, if I use this style immediately after a page
break, then the shading gets applied to the page break as well, and I get a
grey strip at the bottom of the previous page. I have tried varying the
"space before" setting (thinking perhaps that needed to be bigger than the
"from text" setting), but that makes no difference. It also seems to make
no difference whether I use a Fill colour or a pattern for the shading.

Any suggestions please?

To solve the first problem, add a *white* border.

To solve the second problem, don't use a manual page break; instead, format
the paragraph/style as "Page break before."

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"BarbaraF" wrote in message
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I want to set up a paragraph style to show the text on a pale grey
background. I have tried to do this by setting BorderShading and
choosing a
colour, and then using BorderBordersOptionsBorders&ShadingOptions,
setting
"from text" top and bottom both to 6pt, to get a suitable amount around
the
edge. I have two problems with this:

Firstly, unless I also set up a Border, then it seems to ignore the "from
text" setting, and the shading is tight around the text. I can get round
this by setting up a border using the same colour as the shading, but the
colours offered seem to be slightly different and the eagle-eyed can see
that
its a border.

Second, and more important, if I use this style immediately after a page
break, then the shading gets applied to the page break as well, and I get
a
grey strip at the bottom of the previous page. I have tried varying the
"space before" setting (thinking perhaps that needed to be bigger than the
"from text" setting), but that makes no difference. It also seems to
make
no difference whether I use a Fill colour or a pattern for the shading.

Any suggestions please?