Space Before a Paragraph at the Start of a page

[faceman28208]

Is there any way to set up word such that it will not add space before
a paragraph at the top of a page?

I would like a heading to have space above to separate it from the
text.

However, this space is unnecessary when the heading occurs at the
start of a page and looks funny not starting at the top of the page.

 

[faceman28208]

Is there any way to set up word such that it will not add space before
a paragraph at the top of a page?

I would like a heading to have space above to separate it from the
text.

However, this space is unnecessary when the heading occurs at the
start of a page and looks funny not starting at the top of the page.

I should clarify.....how do you do this on the FIRST page. Word does
it for subsequent pages but not, apparently, the first.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Tools, Options, Compatibility tab (or Word Options, Advanced, Compatibility)
and select the required Suppress Space options. This will suppress the extra
space following page breaks but not following section breaks, so the space
at the top of the first page will not be suppressed.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Format the style that you are using for the text paragraphs so that it has a
space after it.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I do the same, but often in long documents I *want* a long drop before the
first heading (in a chapter/section). In shorter documents, my first Heading
1 is rarely the first paragraph; there's usually a Title (and often a
Subtitle) preceding, and I have that style formatted to take the Space
Before of the heading into account.

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

If a heading level always starts a new page, you can use page break before
in the style setting. If not (& for my jobs they usually do not), I don't
think there's a way to do it automatically in Word. I just manually
adjust
the first heading.

Pam

Is there any way to set up word such that it will not add space before
a paragraph at the top of a page?

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However, this space is unnecessary when the heading occurs at the
start of a page and looks funny not starting at the top of the page.

I should clarify.....how do you do this on the FIRST page. Word does
it for subsequent pages but not, apparently, the first.