Bug: Word 2007: "Space before" causes line overlap

[Christopher King]

When a one-line paragraph at the top of a page (other than the first)
contains a figure, formatting the paragraph to have space before it causes
the figure to overlap with the next line.
To reproduce: Create a new document. Press "enter" repeatedly until the
cursor is at the top of a second page. (The problem doesn't occur at the top
of the first page). Paste a figure into this first paragraph of page 2 (the
picture should be formatted as "in-line"). Press "enter", and type some text
below the figure. Now, select the paragraph containing the figure, and
format that paragraph to have "Spacing"/"Before" set to, say, 6 pts. On
pressing OK, the figure drops down 6 pts, but the line below it doesn't drop
down, so the figure overlaps the line below it.
Chris

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Chris,

Sorry, but I can't reproduce that behavior. I suspect your document or
your template may be damaged.

The default behavior is to suppress Space Before at the top of a page.
When I click OK in the Paragraph dialog, it appears that nothing
happens. With the text boundaries displayed, the top of the picture is
still against the top margin. The paragraph below the picture is
separated from it by the usual line spacing.

If you can reproduce the behavior at will, please send a copy of the
document and your Normal.dotm template to me.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Tony Jollans]

Does it print as well as display like this? If not it is probably a graphics
card issue and almost certainly not a Word one.

 

[Christopher King]

This seems to apply only if the figure has been cropped. Can anyone
reproduce it with a cropped figure?
Chris

 

[Jay Freedman]

No, I still don't see the problem you described. The cropped picture
is still at the top of the page, and the line of text below it is
right where it should be.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Chris,

Are you running MS Office 2007 Beta 2 or with the B2TR Technical update applied from http://microsoft.com/downloads ?

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This seems to apply only if the figure has been cropped. Can anyone
reproduce it with a cropped figure?
Chris >>

 

[Christopher King]

Bob,
I'm running B2TR.
I sent Jay Freedman a document demonstrating the bug. He was able to
confirm it, and filed a bug report, 965160942.
Chris

 

[Jay Freedman]

That's correct. There hasn't been any response to the bug report yet
-- that's no surprise, as I entered it Thursday evening, so it's only
been one business day. I'm not sure whether there will be a response,
and there certainly won't be a fix before the retail release.

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[Jay Freedman]

The bug report was closed, as I expected, with the response "We were
not able to reproduce the issue you've reported, it may have been
fixed in a later build of Office 12." We'll have to wait for the final
release to see whether it really was fixed.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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