suppress space before paragraph at top of page tadoslav 12/16/2008 7:58:04 AM I'm using MS Word 2007. When defining the paragraph features for a heading in a dissertation I set the space before the paragraph to, for example, 24 pt so that I have the required spacing per our school's style manual. However, when the heading appears at the top of a page, there should be no spacing between the top margin and the header. It would be very helpful to have a setting that allows the user to suppress the spacing before a paragraph when the paragraph (in this case a header) appears at the top of a page. This is an important feature because if it doesn't exist, then the user must go through the document page by page (or heading by heading) to find headings that appear at the top of the page and change the formatting to eliminate the space. That, of course, divorces it from the predefined style which means if the document changes (i.e. the heading is no longer at the top of the page) then you have to go through the document once again to change it back and also change other headers that may now appear at the top of the page. You can imagine this might be a painful process for long documents (dissertations) that undergo several revisions. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=73616720-5654-47f8-bbb1-50998c4b6745&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement

Re: suppress space before paragraph at top of page "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 12/16/2008 12:53:59 PM Space Before is suppressed at the top of a page by default except after manual page and column breaks (and even this can be changed with a Compatibility Option). It is never suppressed after a section break. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "tadoslav" <tadoslav[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:73616720-5654-47F8-BBB1-50998C4B6745[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I'm using MS Word 2007. > > When defining the paragraph features for a heading in a dissertation I set > the space before the paragraph to, for example, 24 pt so that I have the > required spacing per our school's style manual. However, when the heading > appears at the top of a page, there should be no spacing between the top > margin and the header. It would be very helpful to have a setting that > allows the user to suppress the spacing before a paragraph when the > paragraph > (in this case a header) appears at the top of a page. > > This is an important feature because if it doesn't exist, then the user > must > go through the document page by page (or heading by heading) to find > headings > that appear at the top of the page and change the formatting to eliminate > the > space. That, of course, divorces it from the predefined style which means > if > the document changes (i.e. the heading is no longer at the top of the > page) > then you have to go through the document once again to change it back and > also change other headers that may now appear at the top of the page. You > can imagine this might be a painful process for long documents > (dissertations) that undergo several revisions. > > > > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow > this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=73616720-5654-47f8-bbb1-50998c4b6745&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement >