> My guess is that you were using Normal style for everything (or at least
> for
> the body text). When you add Spacing After to Normal, the change trickles
> down to all the styles based on Normal (which is just about all of them);
> see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/HowStylesCascade.html. To avoid
> this, either leave Normal alone and use Body Text (formatted as desired)
> for
> body text (see
>
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NormalVsBodyStyles.htm),> or manually change the TOC and Index styles not to have Spacing After.
>
> Naturally, I would advise the former course. You will also need separate
> styles for bulleted items (I use the built-in List Bullet style, formatted
> as desired) and other paragraphs that are not straight body text. If you
> want to have space after the last bullet point but not between them, add
> the
> same space to the style as for Body Text, but check the box for "Don't add
> space between paragraphs of the same style."
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
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> so
> all may benefit.
>
> "Charles W Davis" <Anthemwebs[ at ]lvcoxmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4A45CE41-F149-42D6-8D3C-87A3736CFD77[ at ]microsoft.com...
>> Suzanne,
>> I have a long 250 page document that I have been working on for the past
>> five years (memoirs). I have always pressed the enter key twice to
>> provide
>> the spacing. In the document, bulleted items, table of contents and the
>> index are single spaced as desired. I hadn't thought about it until I
>> read
>> Herb Tyson's instruction in an earlier post. I made the changes, easily
>> eliminated the extra paragraph entries, and it looked great. Whoa! My
>> two
>> page table of contents became four pages, and the 8 page, three column
> index
>> became 15 pages.
>>
>> How can the style of these items differ regarding the 12pt space after
>> paragraphs?
>> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:eX7kCMypHHA.2596[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> > Are you referring to the "Don't add space between paragraphs of the
>> > same
>> > style" option?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
>> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
>> > Words into Type
>> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
>> > Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org>> > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
> newsgroup
>> > so
>> > all may benefit.
>> >
>> > "Charles W Davis" <Anthemwebs[ at ]lvcoxmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:11F3463E-7A5F-4523-9DDE-BA3CB59E861D[ at ]microsoft.com...
>> >> I know how to set the style in Word 2007 so that Paragraphs have 12pt
>> >> spacing after. How do I prevent this from happening for lists?
>> >>
>> >
>>
>