automatically suppress Space Before after a column break (Word 200

[cms]

HEEEEEELP!

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After a Continuous section break, I have created 2 columns. Styles have Space
Before and/or After. When I force a column with a column break, the second
column is keeping the Space Before. Please note I have already selected the
compatibility option 'suppress Space Before after a hard page break or column
break'. What am I missing?

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

You could just surrender and create another Style which is identical
to the one you're using except it has no Space Before, and apply that
after your column break.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or just manually remove the space before from that one paragraph.

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

You could just surrender and create another Style which is identical
to the one you're using except it has no Space Before, and apply that
after your column break.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Being somewhat of a control freak I'd probably create a separate style for
cases such as this one.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It depends how often you need to do it in a given document. I tend to wait
for several occurrences before defining a style, though I do routinely have
a Body Text Space Before style to use after tables (even in documents with
no tables).

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

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

So ... no one wants to address OP's original problem, that "Suppress
Space Before" isn't working?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, we've tried to, but since we can't reproduce the problem... I did
suggest looking for an empty paragraph.

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

So ... no one wants to address OP's original problem, that "Suppress
Space Before" isn't working?

 

[Stefan Blom]

I think the problem is the fact that this is a continuous section.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't think so. Columns are very often in Continuous sections, but the
"suppress" control should still work.

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

 

[Stefan Blom]

Sorry, my previous message wasn't clear. I meant to say that in a quick
test, there seems to be a difference. I had never noticed this before.

Here's an example:

one-column text¶

------continuous section break------
column one¶ text in column two¶*
<column break>

-----continuous section break----
one-column section again¶

Note that the spacing may seem to be suppressed but if you press Ctrl+Q on
the paragraph after the column break (the one marked with an asterisk), the
spacing will resurface.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

How very annoying. But I actually usually prefer this because the first
paragraph in the first column has Space Before, and this makes them match.
If there is no manual column break and a paragraph breaks from one column to
the next, then I have to remove the Space Before on the first paragraph in
Column 1 in order to balance them.

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