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debojitacharjee
Copper Contributor
May 18, 2023

How to make the shading look uniform around a double spaced line in MS Word?

When I use the shading on a line (with double-spaced 0pt before and after) in MS Word, I see that the shading area exceeds more at the bottom of the line.   However, this doesn't happen with single...
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debojitacharjee
Copper Contributor
May 23, 2023
Your method seems to be working for me, but the only thing I didn't like about this process is that I will have to make these adjustments manually for every para on which I need to apply the shading. Can't this be done like a default configuration so that this would be done automatically as soon as I apply the shading on a para?
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Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
MVP
May 23, 2023

debojitacharjee Put the selection somewhere in a paragraph to which you want to add such shading and  then run a macro containing the following code

Dim rng As Range
Set rng = Selection.Paragraphs(1).Range
rng.Collapse wdCollapseStart
ActiveDocument.Fields.Add rng, wdFieldEmpty, "Advance \d 12"
rng.Paragraphs(1).Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorLightBlue
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    Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
    MVP
    May 23, 2023

    debojitacharjee If you turn on the display of non-printing characters, I believe that you will see a pilcrow (¶) at the end of the line.

    This is what it does here