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Copper Contributor

Jun 21, 2023

Best practice - Normal style and paragraph spacing

While most of my time is spent designing and creating documents in Adobe Indesign I do often need to create documents in Word for people in our educational organisation to then go on and change thems...

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Copper Contributor

Jun 28, 2023

Charles_Kenyon Thanks for sharing your workflow there Charles. I'm just attempting to use something similar now. One thing I have noticed/run into is the fact that when you use Normal and then apply bullets to a paragraph, it automatically applies the "List Paragraph" style, which has the 'no spacing for the same paragraph option' for example, now if you use a self created "Body Text" and apply bullets, "List Paragraph" isn't automatically applied. You have to manually change it to use it. Not a deal breaker but annoying.

Charles_Kenyon

Bronze Contributor

Jun 28, 2023

fitchied

For the Tables problem, you can use Quick Tables that are preformatted.

Consider setting up your own styles for bullets and using those styles.

How to Control Bullets by Shauna Kelly.

By the way, double paragraph breaks (empty paragraphs) make editing Word documents much harder. See Why You Should Press Enter Only Once at the End of Each Paragraph by Shauna Kelly.