Word should allow custom line spacing between list items

[Guest]

Word 2003.
The paragraph format dialog already has a "Don't add space between
paragraphs of the same style" option. I'd like an "Add a space of x points
between paragraphs of the same style" option, where x is variable. This would
be useful for formatting bulleted and numbered lists.

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[Cindy M.]

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Word 2003.
The paragraph format dialog already has a "Don't add space between
paragraphs of the same style" option. I'd like an "Add a space of x points
between paragraphs of the same style" option, where x is variable. This would
be useful for formatting bulleted and numbered lists.

You can define the SpaceAfter property for the style to achieve this.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Thanks Cindy. I was trying to suggest a style option that would produce a
spacing of x points between list items, but y points after the last item. The
workaound I use is to define a 'Last List Item' style with a different Space
After than the 'List Item' style, but this is a bit clumsy.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Jeff

Thanks Cindy. I was trying to suggest a style option that would produce a
spacing of x points between list items, but y points after the last item. The
workaound I use is to define a 'Last List Item' style with a different Space
After than the 'List Item' style, but this is a bit clumsy.

it's especially clumsy and probably unworkable if you try the same thing
with a numbered list instead of bullets.

If you really need that fine-grained a typographical control, I'd much
rather use a different style for the paragraph _following_ the list with
a spacing before (use "Bodytext" if "Normal" is your standard style, or
"Bodytext 2" if it's "Bodytext").

2cents
Robert