RE: MS Word: Spacing before, after, or both?

Subject: RE: MS Word: Spacing before, after, or both?
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:49:23 -0400


Yes, that's the way to go. Pick one and stick with it.

>
>
> As I'm sure most of you know, MS Word allows its
> styles to be formatted with spacing before and after
> the style. For example, Body Text might have a 6pt
> space before and a 6 pt space after.
>
> Unfortunately, these spaces add together. For example,
> if Heading 1 has a 12pt space after and Body Text a
> 6pt space before, the resulting gap between the two is
> 18pt. Worse, if Body Text follows Body Text, there is
> now a 12pt space between paragraphs.
>
> I have long been tempted to move to only spacing
> before or after, not both, to eliminate this problem.
> Has anyone else tried this? Comments? Ridicule?
> Financial advice?



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