Microsoft KB Archive/60126

Space Before Format Ignored at the Top of Page/Column

PSS ID Number: Q60126 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

In Microsoft Word, the first line of text on all pages except the first for one-column documents lines up at the top edge of the margin, hence ignoring any Space Before paragraph formatting. However, Microsoft Word version 4.00 does not ignore this formatting.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Microsoft Word versions 3.x, 5.x, and 6.0 ignore the Space Before paragraph format when a paragraph is the first one on a page or within a column. Microsoft discovered that many customers prefer the behavior of Word 3.0x. Therefore, the maintenance release to Word 4.00, Microsoft Word 4.00a, was changed to emulate the way Word 3.0x handles the above situation.

Word always inserts the specified amount of space before a paragraph when it is the first paragraph in the document, when it follows a manual page break, and when it falls at the top of a page with multiple columns of text. This allows you to have the Space Before format taken into account when deemed appropriate.

= REFERENCES =

“Macintosh Word 4.00a Summary of Fixes,” page 1

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