Paragraphs shading 'stick' together

[Bruno G.]

Hello!

I have put a shading color in both styles 'Heading 1' and 'Heading 2'.
Colors are different, but when a paragraph with style 'Heading 2' immediatly
follows a 'Heading 1' paragraph, both colors 'touch', if I put an empty
paragraph between them, the color is removed from the 'Spacing Before' and
'Spacing After' parts of the paragraph - that's what I want to happen even
when the two paragraphs are next to each other.

Is there any way to do this?

I tried putting different borders, but the problem returns if two paragraphs
with the same style follows one another.

Thanks for your help!

Bruno

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Bruno,

As you say, you can avoid this "sticking together" with thin white borders
for different (heading) styles.

There isn't a really good solution for paragraphs of the same style.
You can select two paragraphs of the same style. If you then edit the
style's borders, you get the additional option to set a border "between"
paragraphs.

But the paragraphs still stick together. And you can't always make it look
nice, depending on the line spacing, "Space before" and "Space after". Also,
the choice of border thickness is rather limited (you can only have up to 6
pt white space between the paragraphs).

Another possibility: You might fudge it by using two slightly different
(heading) styles alternatingly.

I hope that somebody knows a better way. I have run into that issue with
short "Tip" or "Warning" paragraphs, which should appear in separate shaded
"boxes". I really hate having to use empty paragraphs.

Klaus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I also hate to use empty paragraphs, but I do it all the time when I have to
separate two separate boxed items in my Rotary bulletin (whenever possible,
I insert a paragraph of nonboxed text between boxed items, but sometimes
that's not possible).

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Suzanne,

If even you use empty paras, I must abandon all hope and accept defeat!

Klaus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I suspect that if we approached the Word developers about a feature to
obviate this workaround, they would be puzzled (since none of them actually
*use* Word the way we do) and ultimately conclude that the effort to produce
the code required would greatly outweigh the minimal benefit to a very small
group of users.