automatically suppress Space Before after a column break (Word 200

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HEEEEEELP!

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After a Continuous section break, I have created 2 columns. Styles have Space
Before and/or After. When I force a column with a column break, the second
column is keeping the Space Before. Please note I have already selected the
compatibility option 'suppress Space Before after a hard page break or column
break'. What am I missing?
 
You could just surrender and create another Style which is identical
to the one you're using except it has no Space Before, and apply that
after your column break.
 
Or just manually remove the space before from that one paragraph.

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

You could just surrender and create another Style which is identical
to the one you're using except it has no Space Before, and apply that
after your column break.
 
Being somewhat of a control freak I'd probably create a separate style for
cases such as this one. :-)
 
It depends how often you need to do it in a given document. I tend to wait
for several occurrences before defining a style, though I do routinely have
a Body Text Space Before style to use after tables (even in documents with
no tables).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
So ... no one wants to address OP's original problem, that "Suppress
Space Before" isn't working?
 
Well, we've tried to, but since we can't reproduce the problem... I did
suggest looking for an empty paragraph.

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

So ... no one wants to address OP's original problem, that "Suppress
Space Before" isn't working?
 
I don't think so. Columns are very often in Continuous sections, but the
"suppress" control should still work.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
Sorry, my previous message wasn't clear. I meant to say that in a quick
test, there seems to be a difference. I had never noticed this before.

Here's an example:

one-column text¶

------continuous section break------
column one¶ text in column two¶*
<column break>

-----continuous section break----
one-column section again¶

Note that the spacing may seem to be suppressed but if you press Ctrl+Q on
the paragraph after the column break (the one marked with an asterisk), the
spacing will resurface.
 
How very annoying. But I actually usually prefer this because the first
paragraph in the first column has Space Before, and this makes them match.
If there is no manual column break and a paragraph breaks from one column to
the next, then I have to remove the Space Before on the first paragraph in
Column 1 in order to balance them.

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