Spacing in numbered lists

J

Jacob

Is it possible to set up a template (or anything, really) so I can have a space
in between different sections, like this:

I. Blah blah
a. blah
b. blah

II. Bibib


This is really frustrating me. I appreciate the help. Thanks.
 
D

Dayo Mitchell

Yes, it is. Say you have all section titles that begin with a I or II
formatted in the style Heading 1, you would define the style to have a
certain amount of Space Before. The text a, b, etc would be formatted in a
different style, with no space before or after.

See here for setting up numbering, to get the I, II and the a, b correct:
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html

For more information on styles and templates, start here:

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/TipsOnStyles.html

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm

Possibly also useful:

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/UseBuiltInHeadingStyles.html

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NumberingFrontMatter.htm

DM
 
J

Jacob

I'm not a hugely experienced Word User. Those different terms you used
confused me. Is there a more simple explanation, or am I up the creek? By
the way, thanks for responding.
 
B

Bill Weylock

Here's the deal then...

If you want to change the spacing manually for each line, you can do that
pretty easily as you type. With your cursor in any given line, hold down Cmd
(Apple/pretzel) and key 0. That will toggle between double and single (so to
speak) paragraph spacinng.

If you want to fix it so those thing happen automatically for a given level
of a list: I paragraphs are double spaced, while A and 1 and below are
single spaced, you can do that fairly easily, but you have to understand a
little bit about styles in order to do it.

If you don't want to read the help files, you are going to have to pay
someone to teach you, or you are going to have to go to the trouble to ask a
very specific question that someone can answer directly.

"How do I?" for something like this requires a longer answer than you think.

Enter "paragraph styles" in your help search field. It will give you a much
better briefing than I can. Once you get the concept, the rest is easy.

Oh. One more thing. You can set things like spacing before and spacing after
a given paragraph by putting your cursor into the paragraph and calling up
FORMAT/Paragraph.

Hope this helps a little.


Best,


- Bill
 
D

Dayo Mitchell

Reading the articles I gave you links for will give you more information,
and the articles are designed to teach and introduce these concepts.

DM
 

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