Atlantis Word Processor Forum

Thanks Robert; done, in both Word and Atlantis!

Please, have a look a the following page:
Trying to suppress extra line spacing at top of page
This method seems to work in both Atlantis and MS Word.
HTH.
Robert

Thank you! :-) That method appears to work perfectly at all times, including after manual page breaks and automatic (text flow) page ...

I am not sure that introducing new document formatting options that would not be supported by other word processing applications, makes sense.

Firstly, my sincere thanks for you going to all that trouble! I'm going to explore your solution fully before replying properly, but right now I just want ...

I think one key point to acknowledge is that you can avoid this problem by not using 'Space before', but spacing paragraphs with 'Space after' instead.

However, it causes problems. In-column (or in-page) headings are normally separated from the preceding text by a larger-than-normal space above ...

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Poop - how do I get images to appear?

Thanks for your comments, Robert.

However, I don't agree. When writing a technical report or paper, it is quite normal to have a hierarchical set of Heading styles, without requiring any of those style to invoke a page break.

Take a look at any published academic paper: they don't have blank ...

Set up style Heading 1 to have a 24pt space above.

When it is the first line of a document, or comes immediately after a page break, the heading text has a 24pt space above it, pushing it down from the top of the page.

However, when a Heading 1 does NOT have a page break in front of it, but ...