Best way to insert shadeed space before a paragraph using styles

[savageanne]

One of my heading styles has the paragraph formatted with shading. The top
of the capital letters come quite close to the edge of the shading, so I'd
like the shading to be a little "taller". I thought that I could just
insert space before, but when I do that the space is white, not colored as
I'd like it to be.

Is there a solution to this other than creating a new style with the same
color background and inserting a dummy paragraph before all my headings?
That will work, but I'm hoping there's another way.

Thanks so much.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In the Borders and Shading dialog, click on Options and increase the
"Distance from text" setting for Top.

 

[savageanne]

Hi - Thanks. I had tried that before and it didn't work, but at your
recommendation I played around a bit more a discovered that it works but ONLY
IF you have a border. If you only have the shading, with no border, it
doesn't do anything. So, I added a border the same color as the shading and
viola! Thanks so much. - A

 

[Lene Fredborg]

As far as I have experienced (Word 2003), setting a margin in the Options
dialog box has no effect unless you also apply a corresponding border (in
this case, a top border). The border can be set to white color or the same
color as the shading.

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Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Oops, yep, forgot about that gotcha! Sometimes I add a white border, but
same color works, too.