Hello Greg,
Seeing you work in the legal profession and you therefore won't mind
verbiage, and just in case you'd like some "how-to" information after
Daiya's excellent advice: there is a discussion of leading (space
above/below) starting on page 164 (see the headings "The advantages of
including leading (blank space above or below) in styles" and "Leading
above, or below, paragraphs?") in some notes on the way I use Word for the
Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your Will", which are available as a free download
from the Word MVPs' website
(
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).
You might also find something of interest under "Styles and templates ‹ the
keys to consistency and saving time" starting on page 84.
(These pages numbers might be out a bit; I'm working from the latest
edition, which is going to be uploaded soon.)
[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the items I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.]
Cheers,
Clive Huggan Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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I don't think there is an automagic way to do this--those lines aren't
really blank, see. They have an empty paragraph mark on them.
What you ought to do instead of having blank lines, is to use Space After,
which will produce spacing without you hitting enter twice. Then those
lines will be truly blank and Word will not number them.
Depending on the layout of your document, adding Space After to the main
style in use and then using Find and Replace to delete the empty paragraphs
might get you the desired result, with minimal effort.
You can manually add Space After via Format | Paragraph. If you typed the
entire document in Normal style, then use Format | Style to add space after
to the Normal style.
It's conceivable that a macro might help suppress the numbering on lines
with just an empty paragraph, but I haven't a clue how, and for that, you
would certainly need to state Word and OS versions.