what is line spacing "auto"

[Andy Fish]

hi,

I can't find anything in the documentation about what it means to set the
before/after line spacing to "auto" - it's certainly not the same as 0 which
is the default value.

with word 2003 on a test document, the "styles" pane reports "before:5pt;
after:5pt" regardless of the font size, but the "reveal style" pane just
shows "line spacing before:auto; after:auto".

the help manual just says to enter the value and doesn't describe what auto
means at all

Andy

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think Auto applies the spacing that would be used by HTML in Web pages. I
avoid it for documents.

 

[Stefan Blom]

For more, see these articles:

WD2000: How to Use the HTML Paragraph Auto Spacing
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/207893/en-us

Description of the Compatibility options that are available in the
Options dialog box in Word 2003, Word 2002, and Word 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288792/en-us

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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