Conditional Spacing before

[herefroggy]

First of all, just a comment ... this forum is saving my tuckus today. So
thanks, even though you didn't know.

I have a set of styles my company has defined as "standard". I can modify
them but I need to be careful about what I do.

I have one style that defines a section header. It is defined with a 12pt
space before the paragraph. That's fine as it needs to be set off when the
section begins in the flow of the document. There are times, however, when
this element follows a page break (either hard insert or just naturally
occurring). In that case, I'd really rather NOT have the space. Is there a
way to have the spacing be conditional?

If (top of page) {
space = 0
else
space = 12
}

Note I can NOT use any VB tricks or such. We have a mixed PC/Mac environment
so any solution must be cross platform and security conscious. The
pseudo-code above is just for demonstration.

Thanks again.

 

[macropod]

Hi herefroggy,

Simple: Got to Tools|Options|Compatability and check the options:
.. 'Suppress extra line spacing at Top of page'
.. 'Suppress Space Before after a hard page or column break'.

If you have paragraph formats with trailing spaces, you may get even better results if you also check the option:
.. 'Suppress extra line spacing at bottom of page'