Paragraph Spacing (Before and After)---Exactly

....or knowledge of the limitations of Word.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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Ah! Government rules; a very familiar problem usually caused by promoting
a useless, unqualified civil servant into a position of power wielded
without thought or understanding.

Terry

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Can you tell us why the spacing has to be so meticulously spaced?

He's told us why: GOVERNMENT RULES!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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...especially as EVERY printer is different and what may look perfect on
your printer may be totally wrong on another printer. Can you tell us
why the spacing has to be so meticulously spaced? Ordinarily, if Word is
set to give Space After set to At Least x pt and Space Before is set to
zero, the text looks evenly spaced. However, most cryptographers would
state that for ease of reading, the lines are far too close. For a 12 pt
font, At Least 16 pt is far easier to read on a whole page of text
(depending on the font in question).

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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If you're required to have 2 points leading, then 14-pt spacing is what
you have to have, but if double spacing is supposed to be double that,
then you need to use 28 pts instead of 24. But what we've been trying
to get across is that there is no way you can ensure exactly 12 points
space between the actual text characters except by trial and error and
measuring.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

wrote in message
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Maybe let me rephrase. Yes, I was using S and D to stand for single
and double. Would not be the style names.

Suppose have D which I set up for 12 pt font with 24 spacing. (12 pt
leading after)
Suppose I have S which I set up for 12 pt with 14 spacing (2 pt
leading)

If I have D paragraph followed by S paragraph followed by D paragraph,
how can I figure out what spacing will give exactly 12 pt between the
S and D paragraphs????

If I make the fonts [say] 14 pt with 28 spacing for D
12 point with 16 spacing for S

Now how much space do I need to have exactly 14 pt between D and S?

In other Words, how much space is Word putting between paragraphs when
the paragraph changes? Knowing that, I can figure out how much to add.

Dealing with government rules that need exact spacing where double
spaced transtions to single and back to double. Specs call for 2 pt
leading (for font sizes of 11, 12, 13 and 14) which is bit less than
the page layout software 120%. Word appanertly uses the internal
leading of the font, so some font font leadings at 12 pt turn out less
than 2 pt. The double always turns out to be more than 2xfont height.