Microsoft KB Archive/51505

Word: PostScript Shading Extends Below Last Line of Paragraph

PSS ID Number: Q51505 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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In version 4.0 or 5.0 of Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, when you shade one paragraph in a column using the PostScript command “.para. 0.9 setgray wp$box fill”, and the page is formatted in a two-column format, the shaded paragraph will be shaded as far down as the last line of the paragraph next to it if that paragraph is longer than the shaded paragraph.

The following example is an illustration of the printer output:

____________________________ This is Paragraph #1. It is |This is the second paragraph,| longer than the second |which is meant to be shaded. | paragraph, and therefore, it |Note that the shading occurs | extends to the bottom paragraph |past the end of the last line| border of the second |where the paragraph mark is. | paragraph. Ditto ditto ditto |. . . . . . . . . . | ditto ditto ditto ditto |. . . . . . . . . . | ditto ditto ditto ditto. |. . .//. . . . . . . | ——-//———————- Shaded Area //

Workaround
To shade only the text in the paragraph and not the space below it, use the Tables feature. This feature works better for shading than columns because of the way page layout handles paragraph borders (page view in Word 4.0).

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