Suzanne
Wed Jun 06 17:26:03 CDT 2007
You're very welcome.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Charles W Davis" <Anthemwebs@lvcoxmail.com> wrote in message
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> Suzanne,
>
> Thank you very much.
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%23umm7C5pHHA.1216@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > My guess is that you were using Normal style for everything (or at least
> > for
> > the body text). When you add Spacing After to Normal, the change
trickles
> > down to all the styles based on Normal (which is just about all of
them);
> > see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/HowStylesCascade.html. To
avoid
> > this, either leave Normal alone and use Body Text (formatted as desired)
> > for
> > body text (see
> >
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NormalVsBodyStyles.htm),
> > or manually change the TOC and Index styles not to have Spacing After.
> >
> > Naturally, I would advise the former course. You will also need separate
> > styles for bulleted items (I use the built-in List Bullet style,
formatted
> > as desired) and other paragraphs that are not straight body text. If you
> > want to have space after the last bullet point but not between them, add
> > the
> > same space to the style as for Body Text, but check the box for "Don't
add
> > space between paragraphs of the same style."
> >
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > Words into Type
> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> > Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
> > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
> > so
> > all may benefit.
> >
> > "Charles W Davis" <Anthemwebs@lvcoxmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:4A45CE41-F149-42D6-8D3C-87A3736CFD77@microsoft.com...
> >> Suzanne,
> >> I have a long 250 page document that I have been working on for the
past
> >> five years (memoirs). I have always pressed the enter key twice to
> >> provide
> >> the spacing. In the document, bulleted items, table of contents and the
> >> index are single spaced as desired. I hadn't thought about it until I
> >> read
> >> Herb Tyson's instruction in an earlier post. I made the changes, easily
> >> eliminated the extra paragraph entries, and it looked great. Whoa! My
> >> two
> >> page table of contents became four pages, and the 8 page, three column
> > index
> >> became 15 pages.
> >>
> >> How can the style of these items differ regarding the 12pt space after
> >> paragraphs?
> >> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
> >> news:eX7kCMypHHA.2596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> >> > Are you referring to the "Don't add space between paragraphs of the
> >> > same
> >> > style" option?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> >> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> >> > Words into Type
> >> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> >> > Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
> >> > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
> > newsgroup
> >> > so
> >> > all may benefit.
> >> >
> >> > "Charles W Davis" <Anthemwebs@lvcoxmail.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:11F3463E-7A5F-4523-9DDE-BA3CB59E861D@microsoft.com...
> >> >> I know how to set the style in Word 2007 so that Paragraphs have
12pt
> >> >> spacing after. How do I prevent this from happening for lists?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
>