Setting the Spacing Before or After a Paragraph
You can increase or decrease the spacing before or after paragraphs.
Use the Line Spacing control in the format bar to quickly change the distance before
or after paragraphs. To adjust spacing before or after paragraphs, select the text, and
then click the Line Spacing control in the format bar.
To adjust the amount of space before or after a paragraph:
1
Select the paragraphs you want to change.
2
Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Text button, and then click Text.
3
Drag the Before Paragraph or After Paragraph slider. You can also specify a precise
value (5 pt, for example) in the text boxes.
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If the Before Paragraph or After Paragraph values for adjacent paragraphs aren’t equal,
the higher spacing value will be used. For example, if the current paragraph’s Before
Paragraph value is 12 points and the paragraph preceding it has an After Paragraph
value of 14 points, the spacing between paragraphs will be 14 points.
Spacing before a paragraph does not appear if the paragraph is in a text box, shape, or
table cell.
To set spacing around text in boxes, shapes, and table cells, use the Inset Margin
control, described in “Changing the Inset Margin of Text in Objects” on page 180.