Phil,
OK...thanks. It is so much easier to make suggestions with good examples and
specifics.
In your example page I suspect the problem has to do with how you have the
return links formatted. Are you using tabs to "left and right justify" those
links? Don't use tabs...one of those things that doesn't convert to html
well in a Pub web doc. You might remove those return links from your main
text box, create two new small text boxes without borders, one for the each
return link/text, and then place those text boxes to the bottom left and the
right of the upper text box to get a similar effect as you have now. I would
just let the link text boxes snap to the lower corners... You can left or
right justify w/in those individual text boxes. Hope that is clear.
Also, go to View > Special Characters and check. That will show you the
spaces, and more importantly the paragraph symbols in your text boxes. You
get a paragraph symbol when you hit the Enter key at the end of a sentence
or paragraph. Your example text box may have additional paragraph symbols
below the links text that are creating the space. Back space until you see
no paragraph symbol at the end of the line of text. Instead you will see
another symbol that resembles a small sun or something like that. Make sure
the last of the text in your text box or your tables have this symbol
instead of the paragraph symbol by backspacing. I would also look for this
in your tables, as you indicated that you see the problem most often when
you have more than one paragraph. One thing you can try is to use Shift +
Enter for a hard return to get a new line. This will give you a left
pointing arrow type symbol, and will change the way that the spacing and
padding occurs. Try it even to separate two paragraphs and it will change
the spacing. I also use this to work around problems with bulleted lists. I
do a regular return to get a new bulleted line, but then go back to the end
of the first bulleted line and hit Shift + Enter...just play around with the
combination of enter and shift +enter...
And finally, another thing I would try, especially if you started with a
Publisher template is to click in the text box and then look at the font
tool bar. To the left of the font type you will see a "text style" option.
It may say something like "Body Text 3". Click on the downward pointing
chevron/arrow and choose "clear formatting". This will change the way the
whole text box is formatted...maybe good, maybe not, but it will impact the
padding and spacing.
You already know about the text box formatting...top, bottom, etc, and of
course you can vary the Text Box Margins, and even the Text autofitting...
These are just some ideas that you can play with, that I have found affects
both interior spacing and exterior. What you are running up against is the
challenge of converting print formatted documents to html...and some print
formatting just doesn't translate well. Hope one of these ideas brings you a
solution....
DavidF
